The reason why, is that the essentially corrupt nature of our governmental organizations prevents it, with the elected scrambling to gain re-election, and the not-yet-elected saying and doing anything that will play well in our corrupt media, of which this blog might just well be a part.

People acting strongly and clearly together, as in a corporation, can do much more good more directly than any political entity. Look at the world of NGO’s, entering crisis regions easily, aiding people in ways that our governments are too internally strapped to do.

Look at the UN, with Kofi Annan and his own son deeply involved in corruption in the oil for food affair. As it turns out, governments ( and quasi governments like UN) just get in the way.

Entergy is powering your laptop for you as you write, Mr. Gooljar. It is powering my Mac as I reply to you. Last night, a rather cool night for July, Entergy heated my house, and ran my intrusion alert system. Entergy also powers all your local first responder agencies, and has in fact donated several first responder alert centers to the community, on its own initiative. The emergency room at Hudson Valley Hospital, which Entergy donated to us all, stands ready to take us in and save our lives, should we ever need it.

(Please note that the publicly run Westchester Medical Center stands embroiled in bankruptcy, union featherbedding, competency questions, and all the oh-so-familiar detritus accompanying all governmental entities.)

These are not faux donations, as you imply. These real gifts are really given. Aside from all the gifts, Entergy’s electrical power is indeed in your very home, providing safety and comfort every instant of every day. Entery buoys you up, with all your political aspirations, and all your intellectual searching, to be the best you that Jason Gooljar can be, not in some third world shanty town, bereft of power, bereft of wealth, bereft of opportunity, but in a vibrant first world community, one that takes care of what government can’t do, on its own, via its own success agencies, its corporations.

This overwrought striving to paint Entergy black just will not wash. I know these people. They are wonderful people, and are doing good things for you, and me, without any plea from us to do so, simply as a cheap paid service in commerce.
It is not an evil plot. The extras, the PR trappings, are just icing on the cake. The cake itself is the good solid service, using the best technologies known.

Yes, I suppose Entergy could burn cow dung over at its Indian Point facility, and perhaps you might feel a bit more comfortable with dung-electric rather that atomic-electric. However, it would undoubtedly stink, and add to pollution, and would fail in the end by not being the best method available. The extremely clean, emissionless carbon-free atomic reactor at Indian Point has more future inside it for all of us, than a billion cows, all struggling mightily to dung us into the realization of our dreams.

I personally prefer the atomic technology.

You should, too.

I note that you first attempt to pigeon hole my attitudes, before dealing with my ideas. I’m not encumbered with allegiance to any established political clique. I find it helps me think more clearly. You might try that yourself, to good effect.

I find our Congress is hopelessly corrupt, existing primarily to distribute cash earmarks and various tax advantages to well positioned insiders. I find the so-called “policies” of all the main presidential contenders consist of nothing more than opposition to the incumbent. I find the country overrun with unstoppable illegal immigration, rampant destructive land development, and I predict the squalid urbanization of the entire North American continent within 50 years, plummeting downward to resemble the Indian subcontinent within a generation.

In the face of this paradigm shift, I find both the main political parties philosophically helpless, with less than a clue about America’s future, its survivability as a cohesive entity, and its rightful place in the world.

I find this murky defeatism strongly aided and instigated by a Bimboized press, merest purveyors of sport betting scores, soft core sex and celebrity titillation.

I find the steered, groomed, overprepped politicoes stuck raving about such faux non-issues as Indian Point, Gay marriage and creationism, and I find the public drifting away from it all into a low-level hedonism that can only lead to a foreign hegemony covertly taking over the nation’s more serious business, and running it from offshore.

I see players such as your beloved George Soros already positioning themselves as arbiters of my inevitable disenfranchisement. And I see your “political” efforts, as attempts to position yourself to be of use to any such arbitrager who should notice your “correct attitudes”.

How right am I so far?