SImplistic? I doubt it. I hold a degree in history and run a multi-billion dollar data processing complex for a Fortune 100 firm.
I served on two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in my 8 years (full-time and reserve) in the Navy. Both ships had reactors about the size of double-decker bus, and were capable of creating enough electricty to light Chicago for 25 years. There was no need to burn oil, there was no need to deal with greenhouse gasses or noxious fumes. Not much in the way of equipment needed to be lubricated as compared to an older diesel-fired plant.
The Navy, incidentally, has been handling nuclear reactors for five decades now, with an exemplary safety record. Much better than Exxon's or BP's I might add.
As for propaganda, according to Dan and his bunch, the war was a crime against humanity and the United Sates was evil-evil-evil for even being involved. My take: we needed to be there, but we needed to win. The troops on the ground were not allowed to win, and much of it had to do with the situation at home. Any increase in US force or use of force brought the rioters out. You may not know one protester, but I would wager that's more along the lines of soomeone hiding their irresponsibility and stupidity from you. Were it was once fashionable to protest, it is now looked upon a bad form for having been a protester. I doubt very highly that you have never in your life ever made an acquaintance who held anti-Vietnam sympathies.
And please, do not take credit for the Reagan Revolution. The people who voted for Reagan were very much of your parents generation as much as they were yours.
As fo rthe hubub over social security, when the present recipients die, the problem is half solved: most fo the resistance ot reform has come from those raised during the Depression and they have an emotional attachment to FDR and his programs. The other half of the solution will happen when all those born before 1965 realize they shouldn't be so selfish as to believe they should get something for nothing, like their parents did in their later years.
As for simple addition, if you were born in 1946, you would now be 59 years old, and eleigible under certain circumstances for early retirement (under the 75/25 rule), and begin collecting social security within a few years, at least prior to 67. The rest of us would have to retire at 67 before we began to collect anything.
Bulls**t bub. A Navy reactor couldn't light Chicago for 25 seconds.
And answer the damn question. How would more reactors decrease our demand for oil?
15% of every paycheck for the last 35 years is hardly "nothing", but as I sid, I have planned for nearly that long on not ever seeing any of it.