May 21, 2009 06:44 PM UTC

Opportunities for Economic Growth in Colorado

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• by: Barron X

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Months ago, chatter about Yucca Mountain and long-term storage of high-level nuclear wastes was getting pretty silly,

with some people assuming that storage at Yucca Mountain posed a danger to human life (not demonstrably true,)

and me replying that I’d love to have the $10 Billion investment and 4,000 jobs here in Colorado (the town of Aguilar had offered to host a storage site years earlier for just those reasons.)

Well, opportunity knocks yet again:

http://www.denverpost.com/news…

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If it was accompanied by a big chunk of federal aid and lots of jobs, why not ?  

Really, a squad of irregulars is going to try to bust them out ?

How about if we build a couple more layers of physical security, and pay off-duty policemen and detention workers and firemen (and old farts like me) to staff a 100-strong Quick Reaction Force ?  

That’s 500+ good-paying jobs.  

Do we really want to ship them to a place we know they’ll be tortured, or keep them at GTMO until they expire ?

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