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Drop the politics. The private sector has innovated plenty as well.

"Seems that public policy and government supported-research are crucial to innovation, despite what the anti-government partisans keep repeating about the supremacy of the private sector."

I see plenty of innovation coming from nVidia, Intel, Microsoft, Apple, AMD, and even recently Palm. We need to start encouraging more private sector innovation, and we need to start encouraging it to happen inside our country.

Should I call you an "anti-private partisan?" Would that make you feel better?

Drop the idiotic politics.

"They seem to overlook how crucial government-funded research has been to the development of innovations like nuclear energy, Internet, transistors, and space travel."

Let's drop the politics and solve the problem. Yes, both the government and private sector can innovate. If you want to fund gov't innovation, fine. But don't leave the political sector out of it. They did, after all, give us the GUI, the mouse, the word processor, the spreadsheet, the search engine, and the "cloud."

You want to really solve this issue? Look at what we're doing. Our youth are getting depressed because they're afraid they won't be able to get a job because you can get jobs cheaper overseas.

Not to mention our education is more concerned with pushing political and moral viewpoints down the throats of our youth rather than teaching them basic skills. They'd rather say how wrong the conservative viewpoints are than to teach the material.

If you want to solve the problem, offer a solution. A real, practical solution. Shoving around politics is not a solution.

Posted by: CobraA1   Posted on: 02/25/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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