The Goat Pen

hedge wrote:What's wrong with solar, wind and biofuels?

What's wrong w/competition and full time jobs?

Er......I mean.....Heil Hope and Change!!!1111

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.

Where would Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc. be without government subsidies?

Those guys got nothing on the bureaucratic geniuses we now have in DC.



EPA...EPA....

Say it w/me.

Edison, the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs created the electrical, aviation, automobile, and computer industries without government help.

Washington mostly invents Solyndra's and Obamacare websites.

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.

I know the corn farmers are good w/it....


ETH A NOL......ETH A NOL....


Sing it w/me!

Sorry Prof...what were you saying about your Ag subsidies?

ETH A NOL......ETH A NOL....

Sorry Prof...what were you saying about your Ag subsidies?

I favor abolishing ethanol subsidies because I don't personally benefit from them.

Now if you start messing with Conservation Use and Conservation Reserve Program subsidies, I'll get riled up. Those two particular subsidies are critical to the American way of life.

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.

Natural gas is just the latest permutation of how phoney and banal the left is....just as global warming needed editing into climate change, now that natural gas is cheap and plentiful, it must be demonized just a few years after it was praised as a cleaner alternative to coal.......karma.

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.

Old, old tradition. Somewhat surprised they can pull it off now w/the plethora of cameras around.

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.

Always been an on campus club or fraternity in the past.

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.

You talking about how smart others are is quite amusing. First chuckle of the morning. Thanks.

Toemeesleather wrote:Always been an on campus club or fraternity in the past.

A Tech grad friend says they're now arresting T stealing pranksters. Sounds like they're losing their sense of humor.

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.

She's shaking hands with our national landlords, not her subjects.

Outstanding!

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/3 ... -j-delgado

A writer for NRO is finally passing out red pills. The manosphere is going mainstream.

Ha ha liberals and feminists and white knoghts, fuck all of you.

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.

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).

Got any idea how much Laura Bush burdened over-taxed Americans during her two terms as a jet-setter?