Not a McCain fan but he gets credit here

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edited June 2008 in A Moving Train
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/23/mccain-auto-prize/

I like it.
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  • Posts: 4,741
    he sounds like a liberal, nice way of spending my tax dollars....
  • Posts: 4,695
    god help us
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • Posts: 5,889
    It's an easy promise to make when it isn't your money...

    But I do like the push towards innovation, something that this country has seriously lacked from our government in the past couple of decades.
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  • Seattle Posts: 7,177
    blackredyellow wrote:
    It's an easy promise to make when it isn't your money...

    Isn't that what every politician does? Isn't that the whole premise of the federal government in its current state?
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
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    jeffbr wrote:
    Isn't that what every politician does? Isn't that the whole premise of the federal government in its current state?

    yeah, point taken. To me at least, it just seems like promising $300 million "reward" money is different than promising $300 million in a service or whatever. In the end, I guess it's the same thing.
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    jeffbr wrote:
    Isn't that what every politician does? Isn't that the whole premise of the federal government in its current state?

    good point...

    however, I thought McCain to be a free-market sort of fella...
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    does the u.s. government then get rights to the technology? if so, seems to me a person who created and designed something of this magnitude would make more money in the market place. i could be wrong though.
  • Seattle Posts: 7,177
    inmytree wrote:
    good point...

    however, I thought McCain to be a free-market sort of fella...

    That's what he says. That what Bush said, too. But Bush was the biggest spender and grower of the government we've had in decades. I don't consider either of these guys free-market guys. They are statists whose only interest is increasing the size and scope of government.
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
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    sweet adeline wrote:
    does the u.s. government then get rights to the technology? if so, seems to me a person who created and designed something of this magnitude would make more money in the market place. i could be wrong though.


    That's what I was thinking!

    F the government! The guy who invents that will be worth billions!
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    If somebody invents that, it's going to make billions of dollars , no just 300 millions. And lets face it, someday it will come but it's going to be made by a huge corporation , not by a guy who invented the battery in his garage.

    What an idiot

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