Rachel Maddow About the Damned Dam? (Did Big Government Build the Hoover Dam?)

National Review ^ | 11/03/2011 | Arthur Herman

[TEXOKIE]

Exactly. I have also heard that there is a HUGE plan among the power elite to “re-wild” the areas with dams, along with all kinds of regs as you say, to stop them from interfering with fish spawning.

Our dams truly are under attack by the power hungry. Getting rid of the dams would also have the effect of “necessarily making our energy costs skyrocket.” As well as making a lot of people and farms thirsty downstream from them.

[Paladin2]

Narrower lanes then.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My first job out of college was with Babcock & Wilcox as a field service engineer. On one job in Arizona, I took a detour to tour Hoover Dam. I was surprised to see B&W listed as a major contractor on the project on the dedication plaque. I learned my company had built an entire steel rolling mill and fabrication plant on site to build all the penstocks for the dam. Even though I joined the company 40 years after the dam was built, I still had a sense of pride for what the previous generation of engineers had accomplished in the very remote desert:

[Ratman83]

A walking path maybe.

[Strategerist]

My three kids are in college or recently graduated. I swear at least 1/3 of their friends are going into “environmental law” which is nothing but obstruction of any progress.

For the last twenty years, EVERY college graduate says they want to go into "environmental law" because they know people hate lawyers and they want to sound cool.

There aren't really any environmental law jobs. Trust me, ten years from now, all of your kid's friends will be lawyers for Phillip Morris, WalMart, Exxon/Mobil, and Halliburton.

It's just like every 17 year old girl plans to be a Veterinarian.

[Rannug]

Don’t be so damned stupid in your entertainment then.

[Michael.SF.]

His description is accurate.

Almost all of Nevada is barren hostile rocky desert, but Hoover Dam is nowhere close to the middle of Nevada. His error was somewhat minor, but ignores Arizona. A more accurate description would have been; In the middle of the barren regions of the southwest on the Arizona-Nevada border.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL. Sounds like you have them all figured out. In the end, lawyer jobs for “social justice” don’t pay squat and it is always nice to have income.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Earth to Obama!....Federal projects will not keep the economy going, IDIOT!!!

[Blue Ink]

When you deny that the government built Hoover Dam, you’re not making the case for limited government. You’re calling your own credibility into question, because the Feds in fact built the dam — they initiated and paid for it — using private contractors.

To deny that there are some things government should do and has done (like maintaining the military, building the highway system, going to the moon, and yeah, building Hoover Dam) is childish and does nothing to make the case for limited government.

[stayathomemom]

maybe they should dam the Ohio River and flood Chicago

Huh???

LOL

[rlmorel]

Great article!

[chiller]

Yes, I suppose its how one reads it. In the middle of Nevada, or in the middle of wilderness.

[Michael.SF.]

Actually, I think the location of the dam was a major factor in the development of Las Vegas, which was nothing in the 30’s, but the proximity of both water and power made it an ideal location for what it has become today.

[BrandtMichaels]

Loved this thread. Laughed at your post much. Thought surely you was jus jesting...

But howscome ya didn’t reply to all them fine folks questioning yer logic?

[SF_Redux]

” But howscome ya didn’t reply to all them fine folks questioning yer logic? “

why?