Global warming?

[Undertoad]

Please don't. In order to prove "Every innovation from the Industrial Revolution through the Technology Revolution was supported by govt R&D", you will have to list them all, and we don't have that kind of time.

[Fair&Balanced]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Please don't. In order to prove "Every innovation from the Industrial Revolution through the Technology Revolution was supported by govt R&D", you will have to list them all, and we don't have that kind of time.

I take back the "every" and suggest that US government grants, tax benefits, subsidies, etc. provided significant and irreplaceable support to basic R&D that lead to significant private sector applications in the last 150+ years.

Originally Posted by Coign

On that note, I go back to my lying extremist thinking friends trying to fight to return our country back to a law-abiding-republic instead of the social-democracy that F&B and TW are trying so hard to create. I honestly wish you would just move to the EU where you would find like-minded people and leave us rebels on this side of the ocean alone.

Before I go to the EU as a non-law-abiding citizen...

Can I wave my magic socialist wand and return the US environment to its previous state of smog, polluted lakes and rivers, toxic waste dumps that were cleaned up as a result of federal regulations, with little or no adverse economic impact?

Can I take all the companies that developed the anti-pollution technologies as a result of the regulations, much with some form of government support or tax benefits?

Can I take the federally-funded NCSA super computer so that my friends in the EU, rather than US companies, can benefit and develop and patent new and cutting edge technologies?