[MineralMan]

"Because no company is going to invest money that won't produce returns for 40 years.

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Not really. There's lots of embryonic stem cell research going on all over the place. Here at the University of Minnesota, they have several projects ongoing. They're funded by private grants, not federal ones.

Again, this veto is really meaningless if the goal is to prevent such research. It has no effect on it at all.

[TheDon]

The goal was to not force taxpayers to support the ghoulish ESC research. Well, at least, not any more than we already do.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Again, this veto is really meaningless if the goal is to prevent such research. It has no effect on it at all.

I don't know that that is the [only] goal of the veto. Regardless of Bush's motivation, there is no good reason the downtrodden taxpayer should be soaked for another pie-in-the-sky liberal fantasy. The libs are apoplectic over this veto because they know the private sector is not going to indiscriminately pump untold sums into ESC. The notion that the reason private money won't do this because it is such a poor risk, is beyond the capability of libs to understand. In their "Looking Glass" land, they believe it is because the private sector is evil and heartless.

[FreedomNeocon]

Again, this veto is really meaningless if the goal is to prevent such research. It has no effect on it at all.

The goal, was to prevent TAX MONEY (coming from at least some people that find this morally reprehensible) being used on something they so totally reject.

This never was about stopping the research, or banning it from being done, either abroad, or here at home by private interestes.

The comparison would be like veto-ing tax-funded sex change operations... doesn't make them illegal, just says if you want it, you have to pay for it yourself.

Seems perfectly logical to me.

[nonliberal]

Again, this veto is really meaningless if the goal is to prevent such research. It has no effect on it at all.

Yup.