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Via The Guardian: "The US is facing a $15 trillion national debt, and there is no shortage of opinions about how to move toward deficit reduction in the federal budget. One topic you will not hear discussed very often on Capitol Hill is the idea of ending one of the oldest American welfare programmes -- the extraordinary amount of corporate welfare going to the nuclear energy industry...". The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down, including comparing this to subsidies for new forms of energy (wind, solar, etc.) along with conservative outrage over Solyndra.
Read more from Bernie Sanders and Ryan Alexander:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/apr/13/nuclear-indust...
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