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To: Roos_Girl
In my predictions of a world with President Coolidge winning in 1928, one important item was left off the list:

No TVA Boondoggle!

The leftists (including the Republican Progressive wing) opposed Coolidge's privatization of Muscle Shoals of which Henry Ford was leading contender. I think Coolidge would have pushed hard against the central government getting involved in what eventually became the Tennessee Valley Authority, a socialist agency that has drained billions (if not trillions) from the economy.

Even the symbol of the TVA, above, screams out its revolutionary commie origins. For a few years I did live in an area where the TVA monopoly ran the electric utilities. Outages were frequent and the rates far above what private enterprise would have had.

30 posted on 08/08/2015 3:51:33 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: re_nortex

what incentive would there be for private enterprise to go out of their way to electrify backwoods areas?


38 posted on 08/31/2015 1:37:12 PM PDT by RightCenter
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