To: Son House
They do realize that Caterpillar alone -- hardly a "bleeding edge" company -- spent almost four times this amount on R&D all by itself last year alone, right?
And they spent EIGHTEEN times this amount on wages during the same time?
Smells like a payoff to some connected friends.
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged -- G. K. Chesterton
Cheers!
38 posted on
06/25/2011 7:12:36 AM PDT by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: grey_whiskers
Smells like a payoff to some connected friends.
What else?
84 posted on
06/25/2011 12:43:28 PM PDT by
Beckwith
(A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
To: grey_whiskers
--
Smells like a payoff to some connected friends. --
To me, too. All big companies, all doing well. Those companies do NOT need a handout, and all are already well into "partnerships" with engineering academia. Further, most are highly competitive in that they create and guard a significant amount of "trade secret" innovation.
98 posted on
06/26/2011 5:55:53 AM PDT by
Cboldt
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