ML19309B516
| ML19309B516 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 01/22/1980 |
| From: | Rathkopf C ENERGY, DEPT. OF |
| To: | NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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Cerr==7-- - '.=nce Fafe=al 24 atsched ce=espendence has ':een misdi_vd to this Departner.t for reply.
Daer+ as it appears to fall within the pt=: view cf yet= agency, 'e are referri..g this c:2:rmnicaticn herewith for yet:r reply.
'#e Iam infc=ned the writar of this acticn.
D.ank ycu for yet= acen-%.
t Mr. George Esser 6650 Windwood Lane Beaumon't, Texas 77706 24 8004040 e
/[//0' THE WHITE HOUSE WAS H IN G T O N DEC 131373 MEMORANDUM:
The attached letter (s) addressed to the President is referred to your office for suitable acknowledgment or other appropriate handling at the earliest opportunity.
Should you receive mail that has been misdirected, please forward to the appropriate agency.
I would also appreciate knowing when you are forwarding such mail.
My phone number is 456-2717.
Thank you.
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November 28, 1979 President James E. Carter The White House Washington, D.
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Dear Mr. President:
On November 5, the NRC imposed a freeze on construction permits and operating licenses for nuclear power plants.
Another tnrust at energy independence for the United States.
I feel thar this action was.extremelv,.i.ll-timed and ill-advised in viegnL can-country'.s..continting depenclence-. on unreliable energy sources in the Mideast, and on Q_e_ repor_t._of the Presidential Com-mission.
Even the legions of regulators in Washington, D.
C., should realize that we are pursuing a course that can lead us only to the status of a second class power.
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6650 indwood Lane Beaumont, Texas 77706 GE/dt Enclosure (1)
P. S.
Thought you might be interested in the enclosed article by Jim Cook.
ON THE FAILURE OF THE GOVERNMENT By Jim Cook The time has now come in the evolution of this great nation that free men may openly question the future of liberty, prosperity, and domestic tranquility.
j We have overwhelmingly in this country-conceded the general wel-fare of our civilization to centralized government.
Every manner of L
problem, discomfort and national inequity has been so ceded.
The question is not whether the intentions of those who populate government are aimed at the public good.
Their every utterance would seem to verify this. compassion.
The question is rather, that in attempting to liquidate the varied plagues of mankind have we erected a federal dinosaur with terminal consequences for American well being?
High minded political objectives, government programs, directives, planning, and expenditures must all be analyzed purely in terms of results.
What are these results?
A combination of' altruism and pork barrel has spawned' budget deficits and fiscal irresponsiblity.
Twin evils of inflation and unemployment grind inexorably towards record levels.
Intervention and regulation destroy capital and reduce productivity.
The social welfare system seems to agg.ravate unrest, crime and racial hatreds.
The warnings of classical economists appear sound.
When the state involves itself in the affairs of man more problems are created that are solved.
The larger the degree of government intervention, the greater i
the problems.
The government is failing.
Not the people, not the market, not the educational system, not the institutions, and not capitalism, but the statist government bureaucracy.
The ominous threats of economic blight, runaway inflation, depression and social upheaval wait in the wings to inevitably conclude the great era of government problem solving.
- This, because government involvement, judged solely by the record, brings about every increasing levels of failure.
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P,ago 2 ON THE FAILURE OF THE GOVERNMENT Despite these apparent shortcomings this generation has seemed more than ever, intent on ignoring the warnings of the philosphers of freedom as respects the limitiation.s of government.
By attempting to achieve justice and promote the general welfare through a monolithic state, we have constructed and staffed our own Trojan horse within America.
Government has interjected itself into the money and credit system to the extent it monopolizes both.
The state provides para-l meters for the Federal Reserve and issues money through the Treasury.
The value of the dollar depends on the policies of the state.
Perhaps the most significant monetary manipulation of this I
century has been the gradual removal of gold and silver from our money.
I believe this is contrary to the intent of those who founded our democracy.
The judgement and record of history have been somber as respects-fiat (paper) money.
Invariably paper money'with no intrinsic support becomes worthless.
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Without the constraits of gold and silver, the government readily expands the volume of money.
What are the results of a chronic and reckless increase in the quantity of dollars?
Record levels of inflation haunt u3.
Thrift and savings have shagily reduced in rewards.
Fiscal rot devours the dollar.
The world's greatest currency, once as good as gold, multiplies extravagantly and-rushes towards a final depository, the waste basket.
The government's money is failing.
Seventy years ago the unemployment rate bumped along at roughly 1 percent.
Since then the government has established a minimum wage, unemployment compensation and labor union legislation.
It has stimulated the economy, introduced job programs, make-work proj ects and retraining schemes.
Its main emphasis has been on creating jobs.
Yet, unemployment now hovers between 7 percent and 8 percent.
This says nothing of the scores of hard core unemployed who languish e--
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miserably at the government welfare trough.
Truly the government is failing.
Today every major industry and labor union contributes funds, maintains lobbyists, wheedles and promotes for special government favor and protection.
This is the natural consequence of intervention i
and regulation.
Competition is nullified, influence is glorified, conopoly and manipulation become commonplace.
The interests of consumers are trampled by government bedfellows.
This perversion of power is simply another example of government failure.
In this decade virtually half of public's annual earnings are j
siphoned off into the government coffers.
More than a third of this is channeled back to a new majority who receives subsidies from the state.
Thus it is that the government insures its perpetuity.
The gove rnment feeds those who support it.
'The government orchestrates the creation of a dependent class.
First the state spawns unemployment, then an inflation that oblierates savings and security.
A gradually weakened people tr'ade their birth-right for assistance.
They spurn individualism and self reliance for subsidies.
What is the result of this bountiful government pipeline of money?
A switchblade'in the guts!
Crime soars, morality suffers, dependence on booze and dope explodes, superfly pimps and junkies flourish, illegitimacy, violence, poor health and mental illness abound.
The government has opened a Pandora's box of evils.
There is no precedent-for these events in this country.
Our grandfathers knew little of them.
The government is failing.
Just as those it helps must fail.
The American Indian becomes the first victim.
Bound for extinction, awash in self pity and suicide, bored beyond comprehension, he is smothered in welfare checks that insure-his squalor.
l The black man in 200 years of slavery and bigotry has taken longer j
strides.than any white immigrant.
He has begun to. earn hisLequality,
Page 4 ON THE FAILURE OF THE GOVERNMENT even economic equality.
But he has been sabotaged by the government.
And even now he is falling back, the precious economic equality once within his grasp, slipping away.
Destroy initiative, kill incentive and inhibit self esteem.
Do you not see how your forefathers fought their way from Ellis Island and Hell's Kitchen?
Can you not see the necessity of work?
They had no dole and wanted none.
Work at any wage, for pennies, was better than slavery.
And now the dole has become a right.
With it must go hatred and bittern:3s towards a society that improverishes self esteem.
Out of it must bubble a wellspring of radicalism and polarity, bombers and bolsheviks.
The signs of government failure surround us.
Inflation, recession, l
inner city decay, public bankruptcy and the government's monumental attempt to buy its way out - massive budget deficits.
The bloated government feeds itself with half the earnings from the labor and toil of its millions.
Then it borrows and creates fresh funds to cover its further spending excesses.
The government squanders and destroys the very capital that built the great American Continent.
It places a mortgage on the future.
It destroys the funds that would otherwise build plants, finance equipment, create jobs, enhance living standards, erase poverty and end discrimination and racial in-justice.
This destruction is accomplished by politicians, economists, bureaucrats and social architects who insist they can plan and manipulate and force the improvement of us all.
In reality, they are willing to sacrifice freedom and the public well being for a further increase in their government sponsored power.
A failing government is a dangerous government.
James Madison described "the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government."
With every crisis and failure the government does exactly that - it increases its power.
...Page 5 ON'THE FAILURE OF THE GOVERNMENT The economic problems of this nation are virtually unsolvable.
A solution requires limits on the government; limits the government won't accept.
In an economic crisis a desperate government will do desperate things.
Once the government has destroyed the economy it may well destroy liberty in an attempt to rescue the economy.
This would be the ultimate failure.
Government has become a thing in itself.
It is no longer government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
It is government for the government.
And it is above all a profound failure.
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