Biden: 'EVERY GREAT IDEA' IN LAST 200 YEARS 'REQUIRED GOVERNMENT INCENTIVE'...

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/10/vpotus-joe-biden-dems-will-kee.html#ixzz13Vo9ao5U ^ | Tuesday October 26, 2010

[Bigtigermike]

So said Joe Biden today on the second-floor bar at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel at a fundraiser for incumbent Democratic NY-1 Rep. Tim Bishop.

“Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive,” he said. “In the middle of the Civil War you had a guy named Lincoln paying people $16,000 for every 40 miles of track they laid across the continental United States. … No private enterprise would have done that for another 35 years.”

For innovation and business, people don't look towards government!!!!

It is frightening what Obama is doing right know, It is doubling frightening to think that Joe Biden is one heartbeat away as well.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/10/vpotus-joe-biden-dems-will-kee.html#ixzz13Vr7FNZn

[AmusedBystander]

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

[SkyDancer]

Biden - The Early Years ...

[Delta Dawn]

Thank God for Al Gore. There would be no FreeRepublic if he hadn’t invented the Internet!

Bill Gates would have never been able to create a company called, Microsoft, if he had not had that Government garage to work out of...

It is time for some new toons in DC

[cripplecreek]

The best things government has done are the things that facilitated trade and expansion. The Lewis and Clark expedition is a good example of that and for much of their trip they were following fur traders (Entrepreneurs) who had gone before.

NASA should have been the same thing but we signed that idiotic outer space treaty and forever eliminated the possibility of real profit from space. Why blaze a trail if you’re going to prevent anyone from following?

[twoputt]

Oh Wow! You mean to tell me that the greatest invention of all, sliced white bread, was because of government incentives? What will they think of next, Joe?

[cripplecreek]

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

James Madison

[wagglebee]

I'm confused, how much money did Thomas Edison get from the government to develop the phonograph or light bulb? What about Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone? Did the Wright Brothers have a government grant at Kitty Hawk?

[Plutarch]

Just responding to a government incentive, this guy is.

[screaminsunshine]

Defending anything ‘government ‘ is a real loser.

[COBOL2Java]

"Mr. Watson, come here, I need you to fill out an SF 424 Form!"

[doc1019]

Yes, Thomas Alva Edison, if he were alive today would be rolling over in his grave.

LOL!

[Repeal The 17th]

Elias Howe; Eli Whitney; Henry Ford; Alexander Graham Bell; Thomas Edison; Samuel Morse; the Wright Brothers; and countless others would disagree.

[cajungirl]

Penicillin, Insulin, hair dye! Nail polish! THe Wonder Bra.

[mommab2003]

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy who couldn’t put together three coherent words in one sentence was the head of the VP search committee…Hence Joe Bite Me…Just remember these are the smartest people in the country…Bite Me’s IQ is higher than yours…

[Hoodat]

Just when I think he can’t get any more stupid . . .

[achilles2000]

No transcontinental RR without gov subsidies for 35 years? Someone ought to educate him about John J. Hill and the Great Northern.

[Psalm 144]

Never, ever let it be forgotten just HOW dense this buffoon is: 1988 campaign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1j0FS0Z6ho&feature=related

[Nachum]

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[Hoodat]

“Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive,” he said. “In the middle of the Civil War you had a guy named Lincoln paying people $16,000 for every 40 miles of track they laid across the continental United States. … No private enterprise would have done that for another 35 years.”

Obviously, there were no railroads in the South until after the War of Northern Aggression began.

[Hoodat]

lmao!