Here’s the plan: We get “Good Ol’ Boy” Sen. Harry Reid, since he’s got so much juice in Congress, to play some of his political equity cards, since that’s about all he appears to be able to do anymore and strike a deal for good old hometown Nevada.
The deal would be that everyone in Nevada who meets certain detailed criteria, will get an annual check from good old “Uncle Sugar” as payment (or is it payoff?) for allowing the storage of nuclear waste inside Yucca Mountain. The great state of Nevada will also get a hefty check from the good old US of A for the same reason. These payments will go on forever and ever, amen.
The Alaskans get theirs for the pipeline deal. They receive about $1,000 annualy for their cut and the state receives its own as well. Good ol’ Gov. Sarah Palin doubled the payout a while back. That was done more for political votes than for any other reason, but whatever the reason, the payout checks didn’t bounce, either.
If we sit on our thumbs here in Nevada and deny the use of Yucca Mountain, the government is going to spend $197 million to close Yucca Mountain down. If they really are going to shut it down, why don’t they just shut the door, padlock it, hire a rent-a-cop to guard it and walk away? I don’t understand why it will cost $197 million to shut it down, but then I never could understand why we had to have $600 or $700 toilets either.
If they would give us the $197 million annually and we put it in a certificate of deposit, we’d have a pretty good nest egg annually that might preclude good ol’ Gov. Jim Gibbons from staging another hateful “veto show” on the steps of the Capitol building in Carson City. I’ve never seen anyone relish something so much as I did when I saw the television coverage of Gibbons vetoing those legislative bills that our Legislature had worked so hard to pass. I guess he’s going for the title of Dom Veto. But that title may need to be changed to Dumb Veto, because, despite his political affiliation, he wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Gibbons, apparently, hasn’t learned that part of the legislative process is compromise. Everyone has to give a little and get a little. That’s how it works. If it isn’t done that way, then nothing works. If Gibbons’ vetoes hadn’t been overridden, our whole legislative session would have been for naught for the most part.
On second thought, maybe we need to lock Gibbons inside Yucca Mountain with his gigantic red veto stamp and when he starts to glow in the dark, we can let him think it’s from all the love and warm feelings the voters of Nevada feel for his astute handling of his tenure as the Terminator Governor.
Larry Wilson is a 50-year resident of Sparks and a retired elementary school teacher. You can contact him at lawilson16@aol.com.
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