Babies, Hospitals and Jobs will be lost. Abortion and baby-killing methods will kill unborn and born babies. Obama has voted for such laws. Ms. K.Sebelius, the H.H.S . manager, could care less about all the Catholic and Baptist and many other Religions that will be forced to close so many of their much needed services. Why are so many of the Businesses and other organizations cutting back to 29 1/2 hrs.? To avoid paying fines levied by Obamacare. The Susquehanna Public Schools did this to the men and women that were working up to 39 hr. a week. Of course the employees and the teachers of the pro-abortion N.E.A. did not suffer.

This President and his cabinet need to go back in time and start over with a genuine Healthcare that the Republican and many Independent lawmakers tried to implement - Healthcare for the young, elderly and needy. The Democrats did not listen to what the majority of Americans wanted. Most Democrats, including Sen. Bob Casey are not trying to defeat Obamacare.

Your “Letter To The Editor"- Ms. Laurie Thorn, forgot to mention the above consequences, of Obamacare, that you highly recommend.

Did you read - Ms. Laurie Thorn and all of you that voted for Mr. Obama, the great letter that Kerri Ellen Wilder wrote on page 14 of last weeks September 18th edition of The Transcript, the same date that your letter appeared. Kerri Ellen Wilder destroyed your views and gave us so much needed information to counteract the lies of obamacare..

Sincerely,

Bruce Moorhead

Susquehanna, Pa.

Syria? A footnote. Global Warming? On page 12. Prolonged drought causing mass starvation? A non-event. Short of a stadium-sized asteroid smashing into the Earth causing mass extinction, they all pale compared to what might happen this November.

Workers at reactor No.4, one of the four destroyed nuclear plants in Fukushima, Japan, will begin the white-knuckle removal of 1,500 uranium-loaded fuel rods from the dangerously off-centered, spent fuel rod cooling pool to a safer cooling pool.

Ordinarily, this is done with a specially designed, computer-controlled crane. But this pool is at an angle, the fuel rack is distorted, and the dedicated crane destroyed by the 2011 earthquake. This will be the first time anywhere that the procedure will be performed by a manually operated crane and repeated 1,500 times.

Workers standing atop the shaky building will guide the removal process while sweltering in protective nylon suits, breathing through respirators, and wearing vision-blurring goggles.

Further complicating the removal, the workers will be limited to short shifts because of the intense radiation. All this while water is being intermittently pumped into the destabilized cooling pond to keep the (pond) water from boiling away, allowing the rods to overheat.

But what happens if a fatigued worker gives wrong instructions, or a rod corroded by seawater breaks apart releasing the uranium pellets, or becomes entangled, or is dropped and falls 100 feet to the ground, or if a change in the weight distribution of the cooling pond causes a collapse of the entire fuel rod assembly?

The consequences of anyone of these mishaps could cause a worst case scenario; a massive torrent of radiation rendering the northern half of Japan uninhabitable. For how long? The half-life of the uranium in the fuel rods is 704 million years.

Even if there are no accidents, things could still go catastrophically wrong.

During the transfer process the uranium filled rods must be lifted out of the pool and exposed to air where they can self-ignite. A domino effect could ignite the entire 500 tons of uranium rods in the cooling pool turning it in to an unquenchable radioactive inferno.

But there is no alternative. The rods must be removed before another earthquake, weather event, power outage, fire, explosion, or accident, trigger the collapse of building No. 4.

If this happens, the entire contents of the spent fuel pool would spontaneously ignite enveloping northern Japan in an invisible death-dealing radioactive cloud. Half of Japan would become a zone for the dead and dying. All property, homes, farms, livestock, and factories, would have to be abandoned.

Yet even before the transfer procedure starts, another apocalypse looms over Japan.

Three reactors at Fukushima have gone beyond melt-downs to melt-throughs. The 100-ton uranium cores in each of the stricken reactors, burning at temperatures exceeding 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, have torched through their 6-inch thick steel containment vessels, through the concrete floor of the reactor buildings, and down into the underlying soil.

These reactors are located atop an aquifer that serves Tokyo and the greater metropolitan area of 40 million people. If that aquifer becomes contaminated, provisions must be made to provide the 40 million residents with potable water, an impossibility; alternately, serious consideration will have to be given to evacuate 40 million people, also an impossibility.

And there are indications that Tokyo's water is already showing signs of radiological contamination.

One way or the other, Japan's problem will soon be the world's problem. No one really has any idea what the eventual consequences will be; there are no historical precedents. We've never been there before, but we're going there now.

Sincerely,

Bob Scroggins

New Milford, PA