Posted on 05/04/2010 10:12:37 AM PDT by ianschwartz
"Government can build the infrastructure that allows products and services to reach customers. Government can create incentives -- in clean energy, for example -- that promote innovation and exports. These things are public goods that no business, no individual is going to provide on their own, but that create a favorable environment in which everybody -- companies across the country -- can open and expand. And that's why as part of this new foundation that we seek to build."
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Damn!!! Hasn’t he already skimmed off enough taxpayer money to last him 50 lifetimes?
But they are only desired by government.
The now failing obama regime really does not believe in the principle of incentive, do they?
Government is, and always been, a parasite that feeds off the productive, a necessary evil that exists only as a referee between competing influences, but not to take sides.
Obama is a coummunist. Of this there can be no doubt.
Whenever I hear these types of discussions reminds me of when I heard about ‘private-public partnerships’ from the grandson of Krupp. They’re not exactly what you’d call a mutually beneficial financial transaction.
The list, ping
Innovation to the government means new ways to tax the people into submission.
The new history, government drilled for oil to save the whales.
He specifically used the term “Public Goods” in his statement.
This is one of the key code phrases that lefties from Academia use to try and suggest that their redistibutionist bloviating is actually producing something of equivalent value in the marketplace. We are not seizing your money to redistribute it to deadbeats, we are “investing in public goods”.
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