[freespirited]

Doerr called for setting a goal -- matching one of the innovation-promoting proposals put forward by the Democratic Party the same day -- of adding 100,000 new engineers and scientists in the U.S. in the next four years. Yet specifics on the topic didn't emerge.

Of course not. Because no one can talk specifics on a subject where the highest concentration of talent is found among white and Asian guys.

[nickcarraway]

To me, this is a pretty stupid thing for him to say. Imagine if I went to him as a VC and said, "my new start-up has a goal of achieving $3 billion in yearly revenue in the next four years." I wouldn't have any ideas how to get that revenue, but at least I had the goal. Do you think he'd be impressed, and get out his checkbook?