Posted on 06/25/2008 4:23:05 AM PDT by Jabrown
Today Barack Obama threw the American Spirit of Capitalism and Competition under the bus as he scoffed at John McCains proposal of a $300 million dollar prize for the development of a next generation car battery. Obamas ridiculous mocking of the idea goes far beyond his typical rhetoric of criticism without solutions. Obamas attack on the plan made clear his position...
(Excerpt) Read more at politicallydrunk.blogspot.com ...
What’s Obama’s plan again?
The government *created* the gas crisis.
1714: England's Parliament offered "a king's ransom"...$12 million...to solve the problem of measuring longitude....
Solution....a clock that would keep perfect time.
This is the technology that we take for granted today as we whip out our GPS units...
Read "Longitude" by Dava Sobel.
“The government *created* the gas crisis.”
I suspect it was George Soros and/or the Council on Foreign Relations.
They have been accused of such in the past.
The federal government has a great record of solving things. Just look at how it fixed the problem with illicit drugs.
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