Robbie, you're a good guy. I like you. And I don't want to get into an argument with you and won't.
But you badly misunderstand rural electrification and World War II, both.
There were few, if any, rural electric companies. " Private utility companies, who supplied electric power to most of the nation's consumers, argued that it was too expensive to string electric lines to isolated rural farmsteads. Anyway, they said, most farmers, were too poor to be able to afford electricity." So, the US Government established electric co-operatives, lent them money to build dams, acquire generators, and wire the long paths to farms. You can read about it many, many places, including
http://newdeal.feri.org/tva/tva10.htm. This all happened before you and I were born, and so no one can find fault in your contrary understanding. I don't.
My understanding is different, too, regarding World War II. At least when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies, World War II had not yet been paid for. We were still paying the interest on those Liberty Bonds and other borrowed money, and World War II marked, as I understand it, the first acceptance in US History, that large debt should be amortized to future generations. Google indexes what people say, and the value of what its index leads to varies. Google does not vouch for the truth of what it indexes. That anyone can find a quote online to support a proposition certainly does not prove its truth, as I 'm sure that you would agree. That particular quote seems unusually suspect to me, and that's no reflection on you. You weren't there and did not live through it. I'm older than you, but I didn't live through it either. We both judge by what we've read, and I must tell you that all of the information I've seen aside from your quote provides the exact opposite conclusion.
Robbie, if you want to talk about this more, email me. I'm not going to fight about these issues here.
