[AJFavish]

So according to President Obama, the private sector has never made investments in education and basic research. This is the view of a man with a DNA-level hostility to the private sector. It is also one of the most brazenly stupid and dishonest statements ever uttered at a Presidential debate. From the Carnegie Foundation and thousands of other foundations that sprang from the private sector that have funded all sorts of education projects and basic research, to Apple and General Foods and thousands upon thousands of other private sector companies that have done the same thing, the evidence against President Obama's statement would be thicker than the ObamaCare law. Staggering that anybody could vote for this guy.

[Oldpuppymax]

Actually it ISN’T staggering that anyone could vote for Obama. After all, 95% of the people who WILL vote for him couldn’t READ the sentence in question!

[freekitty]

Amazing isn’t it?

[max americana]

Chill. We’ve all known for the past 4 years he’s an imbecile who reads everything thru a teleprompter. 3 more weeks and the kenyan klown is going down..

[a fool in paradise]

Let’s keep funneling money into higher tuition at Universities with billions of dollars of endowment funds and in public school systems where the teachers are submitting falsified test scores.

Obama supports a corruption culture of academia with YOUR tax dollars.

[NYRepublican72]

No, President Zero, the private sector doesn’t WASTE capital on destined-to-fail investments like Green Energy. If there’s money to be made, like let’s say with computers or that newfangled Internets, companies will pour R&D in.

It’s called capitalism, Obama, look it up.

[Smokin' Joe]

I am sure it was all government grants that developed the technology that fuels the current oil boom which has, among other things, catapulted North Dakota to second among oil producing states.

Oh, yeah, righty right right.

/s, as if I needed to tellya.

(Sheesh!)

[jmacusa]

As I’ve said before Barack Obama is too stupid to be an idiot.

[Kirkwood]

There are plenty of private companies involved in education and research. Mayo Foundation, Scripps Research Institute, Smith-Kettlewell Institute, Battel Foundation... I could go on all night.

[Secret Agent Man]

for most of this country’s history, education and basic research was conducted entirely by the private sector. hospitals too.

idiot history revisionist marxist america-hating muslim.

[Talisker]

Obama Said Private Sector Never Made Investments In Education And Basic Research

You've got 150 million people looking at their tax bills while you say that, jackass.

[jmacusa]

This is jaw-dropping, staggeringly stupid beyond belief. Beyond the foundations and programs you named every single one of us taxpayers working in the private sector makes an ‘’investment in education’’ every time we pay local, state and federal taxes that in part go to school construction, teachers salaries etc.

[matt1234]

obama’s a Marxist and sees the world through that ideology. Of course, he has a reflexive hatred of the private sector.

[rfp1234]

Has this d0uc#e manchild ever heard of Bill Gates? Or Steve Jobs? They didn’t build that...

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Obama is full of deceit. An example of great American tradition is the contest between Samuel Langley and the Wright Brothers.

Langley a product of high class snot nose education (Boston Latin School and Harvard University) tried to pioneer in aviation. He got $70,000 grants from the government for his research. Meanwhile the Wright Brothers were working on their own dime. I always love the PBS broadcasts that show Langley's bold attempts to launch a plane off a catapult in the Potomac River and watch it crash and sink like a rock. Meanwhile, the Wright Brothers using good old fashion American pragmatism with no help from the government got to fly. If you were born in Kenya, you probably wouldn't know this history. For those unfamiliar with Langley, here is a link.

Samuel Langley

[skr]

The public sector should withhold all contributions for one week, just to show what happens to all sorts of businesses and organizations.

[dennisw]

Many or most of our universities were started by religious organizations. States came late to the game (but good for them) and set up land grant and other state universities

[John W]

“....which is not something that the private sector is doing at a sufficient pace right now and has never done....”

Man might want to pick up a history book for starters.

[AJFavish]

bttt

[sport]

As with everything else he [obama]says, this is also a lie.

[Condor51]

Obama Said Private Sector Never Made Investments In Education And Basic Research

Obama's 'right'. Who again was the gubmint bureaucrat:

• That invented the Steam Engine.
  
• That flew a kite in a T-Storm and 'captured electricity'.
  
• That invented Bifocal Glasses.
• That took that electricity thingy and distributed it to peoples houses.
  
• That invented the Air Brake for trains.
  
• That decided to run train tracks all over the Western Plains with those Choo-choo machines on them, bringing civilization to 'The Wild West'.
• That invented the Repeating Rifle. The Revolver. The Machine Gun.
• That invented Air Conditioning.
• That invented the Assembly Line and Mass Production (and Cheaper Prices).
• That basically turned a bicycle shop into an Airplane Factory.
• That invented modern 'Rocketry' (that Robert Goddard somebody iirc. /s)
• And last, but not least; The gubmint bureaucrat who made the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean!!

As to education, one could tell when a town in the Old West became civilized when it built two things -- and all by themselves no less: A Church, and a School. And nobody from DC did one tiny thing to help. It was all done by We The People.

Oh ... wait ....??? I guess Obama is not right after all.
(Gee. Who'd a saw that coming /s)