12-21-2008, 03:12 AM
This just in...just because you can spell out the words on your keyboard doesn't make them true.
Care to give any specifics or will you just continue to throw out indefensible generalized rubbish? Just as one example, Steve Chu is a brilliant, devoted and driven scientist who knows how to direct a large organization and has singlehandedly made a huge impact on government research directions already. He lives, eats and breathes environmental and energy policy/science.
That is complete nonsense. Did they make you take american history and civics in school? Except for transportation and energy, most of those departments date from the 1800s and the country certainly would have been a train wreck without them. Care to disclose what planet you get your factoids from?
Oh wait, I understand. This is the standard right-wing tear-down-the-useless-government-and-give-us-back-our-taxes talking point.
You sure got that wrong. Saudi Arabia and Venezuela find and ship that oil to the US. Exxon (who employs 100,000, not "millions") just overcharges the american public and siphons their profits out of your (and my) pocketbook. The oil company monopoly on our future and security (not to mention huge amounts of our tax money) needs to be destroyed. Oh, and don't worry, the global environmental disaster that it's causing is just a ruse by those scientists to profit from their solar cell investments.
Dakota wrote: As for the rest, they are all faceless bureaucrats that will be forgotten within weeks.
Care to give any specifics or will you just continue to throw out indefensible generalized rubbish? Just as one example, Steve Chu is a brilliant, devoted and driven scientist who knows how to direct a large organization and has singlehandedly made a huge impact on government research directions already. He lives, eats and breathes environmental and energy policy/science.
They are often presiding over departments that themselves have no useful function and the country did just fine for 200 years without them.
That is complete nonsense. Did they make you take american history and civics in school? Except for transportation and energy, most of those departments date from the 1800s and the country certainly would have been a train wreck without them. Care to disclose what planet you get your factoids from?
Oh wait, I understand. This is the standard right-wing tear-down-the-useless-government-and-give-us-back-our-taxes talking point.
Exxon finds the oil, refines it and delivers to the corner gas station and employs millions in the process. They are the department of energy.
You sure got that wrong. Saudi Arabia and Venezuela find and ship that oil to the US. Exxon (who employs 100,000, not "millions") just overcharges the american public and siphons their profits out of your (and my) pocketbook. The oil company monopoly on our future and security (not to mention huge amounts of our tax money) needs to be destroyed. Oh, and don't worry, the global environmental disaster that it's causing is just a ruse by those scientists to profit from their solar cell investments.