AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Feb 7, 2012 17:18:49 GMT -5
The world's only living brain donor, the venerable VP Joe Biden, was just in Florida citing this same statistic (from the OP) and proposing doing absolutely squat about it. I honestly don't know how these two got into office. We must have had one hulluva collective national brain fart for this to happen.
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Post by Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ on Feb 7, 2012 17:23:01 GMT -5
The world's only living brain donor, the venerable VP Joe Biden, was just in Florida citing this same statistic (from the OP) and proposing doing absolutely squat about it. I honestly don't know how these two got into office. We must have had one hulluva collective national brain fart for this to happen. Yes, interesting how the govt goes after private business when ever some fee is being proposed and everyone goes off the deep end, but when it is govt doing the price gouging, not a peep. And speaking of price gouging, the Port Authority of NY/NJ, raised bridge and tunnel tolls 50% a few months ago. This is being challenged in court, but nothing is happening, meanwhile, the middle class is getting pummelled.
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Sum Dum Gai
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Feb 7, 2012 17:30:41 GMT -5
Our generation created the computer using a crap ton of government money that we put on the credit card for later generations to pay off and put a man on the moon again using a crap ton of borrowed government money that we'll let our kids pay back for us. Fixed for you. What of note has this generation done? Tried like hell to get you fucking boomers out of office before you bankrupt us completely. After that we'll buckle down and pay off all the god damned debt you saddled us with. Hopefully we can get your messes cleaned up in time to keep you from fucking over your grand children too. You guys came out of WWII with every other developed nation beat to hell. We had the only advanced infrastructure that wasn't bombed to hell. It led to the greatest bull market in history, and what do you leave behind? A pile of bills. Fucking sad. But if you want to brag about that legacy knock yourselves out.
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handyman2
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Post by handyman2 on Feb 7, 2012 23:10:42 GMT -5
Actually the cost of developing the computer was done with as much private money as government grants and the tax returns from these businesses actually paid for them selves and continues to do so. The space program was a joint private government project also. During the cold war the idea was that we could detect Russian missiles fired into space to come down on the US by using satellite detection. Remember the US Russian space race. From that program we have gotten a lot of side benefits like better weather reporting, Cell and communications etc etc. Plus our military can intercept and deter attacks on our troops via the satellites. I do not see either as a negative. There was a good article about 15 years ago in Science magazine that detailed all the costs and benefits of the computer and the space programs. Can you imagine doing without the cell phone today. Many tax paying industries came from both programs.
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