Thoughts from Michael Barone:
If you put together Obama’s resistance to just about any serious changes in entitlement spending with his antique vision of technological progress, what you see is an America where the public sector permanently consumes a larger part of the economy than in the past and squanders the proceeds on white elephants like faux high-speed rail lines and political payoffs to the teacher and other public-sector unions. Private-sector innovation gets squeezed out by regulations like the Obama FCC’s net neutrality rules. It’s a plan for a static rather than dynamic economy.
Leftists only like change when they are in control of it.
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Sorry, link is fixed now.
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This seems related somehow: Network news anchors struggle to understand the Internet in 1994.
I had been using email for over ten years prior to this.
More links to the previous story, garçon!
Oh my God! That is fab Rand.
The tech vision that Obama talked about in his state of the union address was right out of the Carter administration, circa 1978.
Amazing isn’t, that he can be so backward in all of his other technological pronouncements and yet so sincere, well intentioned and forward thinking (prescient even) in his space policy. 🙂
Amazing isn’t, that he can be so backward in all of his other technological pronouncements and yet so sincere, well intentioned and forward thinking (prescient even) in his space policy. 🙂
Sorry about the double post.
Dennis Wingo Says:
“Oh my God! That is fab Rand.”
I found the article quite fascinating. If one wanted to transform a technologically vibrant and cutting edge nation into a Tech dullard this would be an excellent plan.
Europe used to be the center of scientific and technological advancement. They do not hold that position now. Something to consider.
“If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.” -Glenn Seaborg
“She can’t say anything in 10 seconds or less” <- and that's what's wrong with tv news.
Interesting that the YouTube post has been “Removed by user”. I would have liked to have seen it.
Found another copy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUs7iG1mNjI
There’s nothing as vapid as talking head filler. I figure there was some technical problem behind the scenes and the hosts were yapping impromptu to keep the audience watching until it got fixed.
As for Obama’s State of the Union address, he seems to have a lot of trouble changing his spots. I don’t expect him to help the Republicans dismantle Obamacare, but seems to me that he should have spent more of the time talking about budget trimming (and other concerns of most US voters) and less about the “Sputnik moment” and his pet projects.