For the Greater Good: Norris Dam at 80

[@Wombats-1]

“If it’s better for others, I’m willing to go” Man that’s some deep stuff. People willing to pack up their entire lives and leave all they’ve ever known for other people to prosper. Beautiful people

[@TheDustysix]

The Manhattan Project, the design, development, production and subsequent use in Combat could never have happened without the TVA power as well as the workforce. Added to my Manhattan Project WW2 Playlist.

[@jynxkidd2204]

I don't necessarily think the families moved because they felt a sense of higher purpose. From what I have been told, the land was either bought out from under them, or they were compensated by the government for their land at a fraction of what they got it for.

[@robertbates6057]

The river bottoms of TN, NC and N GA was the best farmland in the Mtns. They were also the ancient sites of Native towns. The farmers were FORCED off of their family farms. No archaelogical preservation was done. Ancient artifacts buried forever. The crooked politicians, big business, big banks, and world elites only care / cared about more money and control. Hell, they made the wars and profited from sales of arms and munitions selling to both sides. We know who they really are now.

[@1HorseOpenSlay]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@crystalfranklin2583]

Not fairly compensated though, I bet. And with Eminent Domain, they didn't really have a choice either way. If they refused to sell, they were forced off their land and their homes and communities were destroyed regardless, all in the name of "progress".

[@DavidYoung-lo5iz]

Great documentary.

[@calwest2207]

Outstanding program, presenting many viewpoints in an interesting way with dignity and grace. A program of this topic and quality would not be made here in California. I visited TVA Pickwick Landing Dam completing a dream goal.

[@detectiveofmoneypolitics]

Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is following this great and balanced content 😀

[@larrycounce4509]

Here in the flatwoods of Tennessee we got electricity in the mid to late 50s I was 5 or 6 but remember removing the wood stove and replacing with an electric stove.

[@wobblysausage8472]

TVA while I’ve enjoyed the energy prices, I’d much rather of had that family farm and life it provided. Life for many other families that never had theirs flooded here in Tennessee sure accelerated while the others got left behind and forgotten. The descendants of many of these families are still around living that same life and have never fully recovered.

[@kimburkhart7897]

They stated that everyone agreed that it was for the greater good, but that is a lie. I have ancestors that went together with others and filed a class action lawsuit because they were being robbed of their land. They tried to get fair market value for their properties. The government condemned everyone's property to make it possible for TVA to buy all of the land for pennies on the dollar. Leaving all of the people with nothing. Also, family cemetaries were dug up and people were relocated here, there and everywhere. This is proof that the government will take whatever they want.

[@Dman9fp]

Was thinking it was too good to be true/ too convenient. I know nothing about tennessee rivers/ dams but the sad harsh truth is nobody completely owns their land, not just talking about property taxes. Anywhere in america land can be taken by the man, they just have to give you money to resettle

[@bobbym4811]

Love how he says 80 years ago, within living memory to some! And looks at the woman reporter 😆 🤣

[@crystalfranklin2583]

Many families and communities in Western North Carolina experienced the exact same seizure of property, destruction of homes and communities and loss of ancestral cemeteries during TVA's construction of Fontana Dam. Lies and broken promises. Thanks TVA.

[@Samantha30090]

Under these policis, this country grew and prospered unlike now where it's every man for himself, cities that have withered and died. I guess big business got a chance to show how much "better" private industry could do as opposed to government (as it existed at that time) and the result is devastating.

[@leonardgordon1748]

Interesting how in response to Big Business we full in with Big Government. At least the serfs got electricity.

[@highbrass3749]

Big government and big business, all run by the same people.

[@thesilentgeneration]

The same thing could happen today, only in a different way. The government will never let a good crisis like the Great Depression go to waste. It is an opportunity to change everything. The upcoming crisis now in the monetary system, who knows what drastic changes that will make and who will be asked to sacrifice. Change for good or bad is all in the eye of the beholder. All I know for sure is our rights are being steadily taken away from us. For the greater good?

[@agy234]

We’ll be serfs in one way or another either to government or big corps

[@xylol412]

Is Michael Crowe still with this station? He looks like a reporter that worked in Waterloo, Iowa when I lived there.

[@jerrybridges6065]

I would like to see were they lived at

[@dwayneday2895]

Make mention of Marvin T Runyon of TVA work for ford motor company was the last mochian of free Enterprise was a postmaster general under president Ronald Reagan born 1924 Died age 79

[@klumplakelifetv9952]

Our house down there is in lafollette

[@sonyaenix2336]

Norris Dam is falling apart. You would think TVA engineers would do something. When we were in elementary school we went on tours inside the dam . Now there is to much water inside very unsafe

[@andyfeimsternfei8408]

And what do you base that on?

[@Jeff-ff8lg]

We're still waiting on the cheap electricity and the bridge they promised us to go from union county to Campbell county. Still waiting.

[@Jeff-ff8lg]

For the greater good of who???? Not for the locals!!! Only the tourist or as I like to call them terrorists.

[@Ivy-u6h]

For the greater good!? 😅😂😅😂😅 That's so rich. You mean for the greater good of Uncle Samantha. Not all of us are zombie's nor fools

[@solonutiket564]

TVA has done its job. Now it should be privatized to reduce the number of Federal employees. Money from its privatization should be used to reduce the national debt.

[@Jeff-ff8lg]

They had no other choice but to agree stop trying to sweeten what tva did to poor folks

[@jonathanray83]

They only wanted the First dam in Campbell County to have enough power to develop the Nuclear Bomb in Oak Ridge They weren't playing with output

[@mildredrharmon4032]

💔😢🙏🏼

[@melissacole4903]

Recurring theme “sacrifice for the greater good”. I hope they’re still getting “cheap” electricity 🧐 Edit: Curtis Reiner? was a wise man

[@Samantha30090]

Well, if they're not getting "cheap electricity", it's because today's ideology is anything BUT ... "for the Greater good 😀

[@RascherTracy]

hi

[@KevanRice]

wrong subject regeneration power orlean obtainable

[@RackemDawg]

They covered up a temple. Boo

[@ArchFish-zm9vl]

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[@eled8086]

What's the matter, there's no African Americans living in Tennessee ?

[@dwayneday2895]

For CEO power of TVA an nuclear atom energy grid and prosperity of change to in rich our lives for a simpler more comfortable life we owe a great gratitude of invention and for thought of modern way of life if the board see fit to pay him he earns his money fair an honest though there guidance my a light shine an only five family's were move d by force CEO retairment should two third earning as a respectful gratitude

[@catladycatlady7359]

Progress for the sake of progress is idiotic and horrible. I really feel bad for the people that had to move and dig up their dead to take them with them after generations of living on the same land. Absolutely appalling. 🤬

[@fuyt216]

Really, think about what you just said and think about what you used to type this comment.

[@catladycatlady7359]

@@fuyt216 my opinion is unchanged. Life was better before internet

[@SRose-vp6ew]

@@fuyt216 I know you mean well. However, some of us enjoy the simple life off the "socially engineered trauma grid." Do you even see the wording in the above video and how it paints a picture to grip emotions "for the greater good." Do you understand there were some people who never feared C0VID or ran out of what you depend on stores for? The people were happy. Are their great-grandkids? Progressives will never change. They are bullies of their way of life as the only way of life and they use manipulative words and slander to get away with what they do. They try to create utopia and actually destroy it. They say they care about the environment and people but really all they care about is having the power to control the people and make money off the fears people have in regards to the environment. They let the gov. and their rich buddies take land and jobs so the working class can't work. It's like some have been public school and algorithm trained not to understand. Literal words in the physical dictionary have been redefined online so teens can't talk to their grandparents without thinking their grandparents mean things they don't. If computers went away tomorrow my kids and I would be fine, would you? Would you remember what the German Socialist party did? How they claimed it was for, "progress," "for science" and "to be kind."

[@bobberguy1]

Are you appalled by the Native Americans forced off this land and couldn't take their dead? Didn't think so.

[@catladycatlady7359]

@@bobberguy1 Assume much do you?

[@johnrogan9420]

Marshall Wilson TVA Judas .