hedge wrote:What's wrong with solar, wind and biofuels?
What's wrong w/competition and full time jobs?
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hedge wrote:What's wrong with solar, wind and biofuels?
bluetick wrote:Investments by governments to private firms are not only useful but also can be critically important to our welfare. New industries often need seed capital that is not forthcoming from financial markets, especially when large infrastructure needs mean steep start-up costs. Think of the Internet, which began as a government wholly-funded defense project.
Because firms can't recoup all the benefits of their R&D investments, they tend to under-invest. If government took a pure hands-off approach, there would be less money put into medicine, technology, aviation and most other cutting-edge fields.
Pfft. Socialists.
ETH A NOL......ETH A NOL....
I favor abolishing ethanol subsidies because I don't personally benefit from them.Sorry Prof...what were you saying about your Ag subsidies?
Professor Tiger wrote:On a different note, Toe, they found the missing T in the Tech tower.
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/2500861 ... tech-tower
I'm sure you are relieved.
You talking about how smart others are is quite amusing. First chuckle of the morning. Thanks.Professor Tiger wrote:I hope it wasn't stolen by Bama fans. They'd make the T radioactive before they returned it. Fortunately none of them are that smart.
A Tech grad friend says they're now arresting T stealing pranksters. Sounds like they're losing their sense of humor.Toemeesleather wrote:Always been an on campus club or fraternity in the past.
So you beat up oprama for the occasional golf trip, knowing full well that dubya broke all the vacation records for an incumbent prez (and will surely not be bested in our lifetime).Toemeesleather wrote:How wonderful of our first lady to volunteer her time to travel on our dime. Hard working, low paid subjects all over the country are grateful.