Maxine and Math…

It can happen.

Too big to fail, remember?

I hear the sound of the Wreckovery toilet flushing.

Now, the Pittsburgh area is solidly blue– at least in the city, but to hear the negativity so roundly shared among strangers was a good sign that people are waking up.

Why couldn’t the president have made this announcement via a conference call or some sort of video link? The constant campaigner is very transparent.

I say this as a product of Carnegie-Mellon’s graduate school: ObaMao is destroying this nation’s economy. I spit on his opportunism.

Respectfully, you don’t seem to understand that if taxes and regulations weren’t onerous on businesses the businesses would fund their own research and all the college profs would be working for the businesses doing the research. Businesses have an incentive to do this. This is how it used to work and it is what made the U.S. a leader, if not the leader in innovation. It all started going very rapidly down hill after LBJ’s administration. Now taxpayers’ money goes to fund the research via grants and outrageous tuition prices and increases aided and abetted by federally insured student loans, and on and on. Colleges will not reduce their tuitions etc. They aren’t in competition with the private sector. Yes, colleges do have private donations from alumni etc that fund research, but it doesn’t equal the taxpayer expropriations that they receive for this work. End the taxapyer subsidies to the colleges. Then there will be competition and the colleges and their researches can work out agreements on ownership rights without government involvement except via the normal court system.

Holdren, the Google CEO….just pathetic.

I’m reminded of something really stupid that was said by Mike Huckabee during the 2008 debates. It was something along the line that government should award a $1 billion prize to first car company that can create an affordable family car that gets 200 mpg without sacrificing safety or convienence.

I wanted to shout at the screen: “Doofus! The company that invents a car like that doesn’t need your $1 billion. They’ll make more than that in the free market!”

Put themselves out of business, baby.

So which union is he paying off this time?

BigWyo on June 24, 2011 at 12:44 PM

If there isn’t a company, they will start one that they can pay off.

PS: Agree on greedy unions; look for the union label and run like hell in the other direction.

Of course, manufacturing is not really the top of the food chain economically anymore. It is, after all, the information age.

Count to 10 on June 24, 2011 at 12:51 PM

It would be at or near the top if our regulatory environment, taxes, unions and minimum wage didn’t incentivize business to produce goods overseas. We still have a huge need for manufactured items, they just aren’t manufactured here.

He can’t conceive of any solutions that don’t involve spending money. If he really wanted to spur manufacturing, he’d get the government the he77 out of our way.

I wonder: Will they recommend the Equalization of Opportunity Act first, or just go directly to Directive 10-289?

For the government to “help our manufacturers” is like that ancient joke about the Boy Scout trying to help the old lady across the street, the old lady who didn’t want to cross the street in the first place.