Well said Bob!
--------------------------------------------------------- A Patriot Must Always Be Ready to Defend His Country Against His Government - Edward Abbey On Sep 29, 2011, at 8:26 PM, Bob Bundy wrote: > Many things the world takes for granted now didn't come into being with just > the influence of the free market. In the fairly recent time frame mass > production of micro processors would have taken forever to take off if the US > government hadn't been the big customer to start off with in its effort > trying to build more powerful computers for space and defense research. The > internet and GPS also owe much of there rapid rise and existence in the > market to actions of the US federal government. > > I think when the US Federal government pulls entirely out of pushing > technologies forward and also quits pushing education forward we will no > longer be the leading economy in the world. There are several countries > poised to relegate us way down the list now as well. It scares me to think so > many people want to take the country backward to the late 1920s which also > didn't work out so well back then either. > > Having said that I still don't think electric cars as the technology exists > today are a remotely good solution. The power from Coal is just a dirty awful > mess worse than gasoline and I also don't care for Hydro because of the > destruction of natural resources and devastation to certain species in rivers > it does either. But I still think pushing the technology beyond what the free > market would do is the correct thing to do as somebody other than a > capitalist investor trying to skim profits off the back of working people on > a quarterly basis is likely to come up with some revolutionary Ideas. The > corporatist often don't want anything new coming out or anybody that doesn't > control all the capital through the financial system to get access because > then it is too hard to use capital to control the system. > > Bob > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Gillman" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 7:01 PM > Subject: Re: Miata electric conversion > > >> Gee, think there is only one company working on this? The technology >> is probably not going to come from the US because we're not investing >> money in this kind of technology, China is. Solar is a good example, >> we've invested $535 Million while China has invested $50 Billion. The >> US is rapidly becoming a second rate nation because we have become a >> Corporatacracy. The shareholder wants immediate return on investment >> so there is no money for R&D just for huge salaries for CEOs.. >> _______________________________________________ >> Miatapower mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower > > _______________________________________________ > Miatapower mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
