Geee Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Washington Examiner:Barack Obama, like all American politicians, likes to portray himself as future-oriented and open to technological progress. Yet the vision he set out in his State of the Union address is oddly antique and disturbingly static.-APBarack Obama, like all American politicians, likes to portray himself as future-oriented and open to technological progress. Yet the vision he set out in his State of the Union address is oddly antique and disturbingly static."This is our generation's Sputnik moment," he said. But Sputnik and America's supposedly less advanced rocket programs of 1957 were government projects, at a time when government defense spending, like the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb, drove technology.But today, as Obama noted a few sentences before, "our free enterprise system is what drives innovation." Private firms develop software faster than government can procure it.Undaunted, Obama calls for more government spending on "biomedical research, information technology and especially clean energy technology." Government has some role in biotech, though a subsidiary one, but IT development is almost exclusively a private-sector function and clean energy technology that is not private-sector-driven is almost inevitably uneconomic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Anyone who tries to connect young people with Sputnik has a screw loose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AceRimmer Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Anyone who tries to connect young people with Sputnik has a screw loose. He's obviously shown he's not going to pull a Clinton, which means his screw is definitely loose. He's going to go down in flames next year, and he wants to drag the rest of us with him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCTexan Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Yup... Really a great forward looking analogy. Sputnik 1 launched on October 4, 1957. The satellite was 23 in in diameter ... about the size of a beach ball. However, it was probably pretty fitting for his "shovel ready" GREEN ECONOMY vision... and HIGH SPEED rail initiatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Link to IBD Ramirez Click to visit IBD Click to visit People's Cube Visit Obama Sputnik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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