Clyburn aims at Trust Fund 11/16/2009 12:34 AM Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., struck a note for his fellow South Carolinians last week.
As the Edward Teller Lecture speaker, Rep. Clyburn told the audience at the event held in Augusta that if Yucca Mountain is removed as a site for permanent disposal of high level nuclear waste, South Carolina should get its share of the Nuclear Waste Trust Fund back. The fund has been collected since 1982, Rep. Clyburn said, and was created to pay for the use of Yucca Mountain as the final resting place for the waste.
"If Yucca Mountain is dead," the congressman said, "then ratepayers should get their money back. And if the federal government refuses to take the Cold War waste out of South Carolina, I'm going to see to it that our state and its citizens are compensated."
The state's electrical users have already paid some $1.2 billion into the Trust Fund, trusting that the federal government's word was good. Twenty-seven years later that is not the case, and perhaps Rep. Clyburn's efforts will return to South Carolinians money that has been sent to Washington in good faith.
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Posted by: chas On: Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:47 AM
Comment Title: Clyburn is an idiot and embarrassment to our state.
Old Clyburn’s folks down at the SRS are showing the kind of people he forced the SRS too hire. He is not very intelligent and the people he helped get hired is not a smart as him. This is what happens when you don’t hire people qualified for the job. They are in over their heads and it becomes a mess.
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Posted by: chas On: Monday, November 16, 2009 3:19 PM
Comment Title: Clyburn is an idiot
Wake up, you don’t like Wilson because he called your hero a lair. Joe can’t stand to see someone tell a bald face lie. Joe will be reelected by a landslide. Clyburn is a piece of trash. He voted to keep funding ACORN after all their corruption.
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Posted by: sven On: Monday, November 16, 2009 12:43 PM
Comment Title: Trust fund
Good point, Mr. Clyburn. Hopefully other SC representives will support you fully in this issue. Yucca Mountain has provided yeoman jobs for the citizens in that area. Shutting it down now does all the rest of us a disservice.
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Posted by: Wake up Aiken! On: Monday, November 16, 2009 9:47 AM
Comment Title: Idiots
If you want to find idiots...it is those of you who continue to vote for Joe Wilson and Gresham Barrett...please name one positive thing they have done for the state. They are waste of space and Wilson is a bumbling idiot that gives out business cards and key chains
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Posted by: chas On: Monday, November 16, 2009 8:32 AM
Comment Title: Clyburn
Clyburn is an idiot and embarrassment to our state.
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Posted by: BMF On: Monday, November 16, 2009 5:20 AM
Comment Title: Jim Clyburn
Clyburn is full of Crap as a Xmas Turkey… Where is this 1.2 Billion Trust Fund??? Same place as the Social Security Trust Fund??? G-O-N-E!!!….this will happen when Pigs Fly…
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