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US At Risk Of 'Biggest Mistake In Entire History'
AOL News ^ | August 31, 2011 | By Felicity Carus

Posted on 08/31/2011 7:14:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The United States is at risk of making the "biggest mistake in its entire history" if recent political battles in Washington force the government to drop investment in clean energy, Vice President Joe Biden said yesterday.

Biden warned delegates at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas yesterday: "We are at an inflection point in our history. If we don't make these investments and set these goals we are going to lose. This negative argument that we hear all the time is not new in America. There are naysayers in the political leadership who say that the government has no role and should not be setting a vision for the future by providing seed money for anything. But he said that history had repeatedly proved the positive impact of government investment on step changes in technology.

"Had we listened to those [naysayers] in 1843, Congress would never have collaborated with Samuel Morris to build a demonstration telegraph from Washington to Baltimore unleashing a telecommunications revolution.

"If President Lincoln had listened to those voices during the Civil War, he would never have paid private companies $16,000 for every 40 miles of track for the transcontinental railroad.

"And if President Eisenhower had listened to those voices, he would never have invested $25 million in research in an endeavor which invented ARPA net and became the internet.

"If President Kennedy had listened to those voices we would have never have reached the moon and reaped the incredible benefits that flowed from that efforts. I can assure you that President Obama and I aren't going to listen to those voices."

(Excerpt) Read more at energy.aol.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; biteme; failure; plugs
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1 posted on 08/31/2011 7:14:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The latest from “The Adventures of Rimshot Joe”.


2 posted on 08/31/2011 7:15:49 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If the Tea Party was a bunch of Islamofascist "rebels", would the state run "media" like us too?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NO JOE...YOU DIPSH*T MORON, THE US MADE THE BIGGEST MISTAKE IN IT’S ENTIRE HISTORY WHEN IT ELECTED YOU AND THE OTHER DIPSH*T MORON IN 2008!!!


3 posted on 08/31/2011 7:16:08 AM PDT by pgkdan (Time for a Cain Mutiny!)
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To: pgkdan

You beat me to it.


4 posted on 08/31/2011 7:16:33 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We already made the biggest mistake in November of 2008.


5 posted on 08/31/2011 7:16:39 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Half of the U.S. made the biggest mistake in the last presidential election.


6 posted on 08/31/2011 7:16:46 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
If Green jobs are so wildly popular and successful; then why haven't entrepreneurs jumped all over this?
7 posted on 08/31/2011 7:17:18 AM PDT by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
.....Vice President Joe Biden said

Well, that's as far as I got.

8 posted on 08/31/2011 7:17:43 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who the he’ll is “Samuel Morris”? Did he get on television in 1843 to reassure the nation?


9 posted on 08/31/2011 7:17:47 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I’d say great minds think alike but that response was sooooo patently obvious that we’d have both been as dumb as a biden not to see it! ;)


10 posted on 08/31/2011 7:18:39 AM PDT by pgkdan (Time for a Cain Mutiny!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

the biggest mistake in US history was the election of the Obama/Biden ticket


11 posted on 08/31/2011 7:19:11 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
No, that already happened January 20th 2009.

12 posted on 08/31/2011 7:20:09 AM PDT by TSgt (When in the Course of human events...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What is it about politics that draws the idiots?

And the libs have the gall to call Bush and Perry dumb.


13 posted on 08/31/2011 7:20:37 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, Joe...as usual, you’re a dollar short and a day late. The US made its biggest mistake in 2008.


14 posted on 08/31/2011 7:20:37 AM PDT by econjack (Some people are dumber than soup.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Biden talks real loud. And blustery. But time has proven him wrong on just about every issue.


15 posted on 08/31/2011 7:21:11 AM PDT by barstoolblues (Notes from the Hobbitt hole. By Hezbollah Hobbitt.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

evil.


16 posted on 08/31/2011 7:21:32 AM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: pgkdan

HA HA!!! Too true!!


17 posted on 08/31/2011 7:21:52 AM PDT by SMARTY (A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The United States is at risk of making the "biggest mistake in its entire history".... Vice President Joe Biden said yesterday.

Ironic coming from the second biggest mistake in its entire history*... And if clean energy is such a great thing, how come no one in the private sector is leading the way?

*:Barack Obama being THE biggest mistake...

18 posted on 08/31/2011 7:23:19 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who is Samuel Morris, Joe?


19 posted on 08/31/2011 7:24:43 AM PDT by logician2u
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; muir_redwoods

He meant to say INFECTION point, which is what this regime is.

And this guy Samuel Morris - doesn’t he work at Home Depot where Biden shops?


20 posted on 08/31/2011 7:24:56 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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