Posted on 03/09/2014 8:11:32 PM PDT by ckilmer
Too much regulation has suffocated US innovation.
Regulation, taxation, and waste both of resources and talent.
No longer having the industrial processes in the country has killed innovation too.
The problem is we are outsourcing.
Outsourcing.
America imports far too much from abroad. The money is sent overseas, and America’s segment keeps decreasing.
America needs to manufacture things in America one again.
In America.
Sorry scientists, your precious ‘research’ dollars are going to fund Obamacare subsidies.
Whack 1
Waddaya going to do?
Who was it that said "Necessity" is the mother of invention?
I think much of the research being done currently in the U.S. is of the junk science variety, whose only goal is to obtain further funding. Every half baked idea does not need to be tested in a multi million dollar experiment.
Now that's a crowd I trust. /s
College presidents are a conservative contrarians best friend.
What they like, I hate...and what they hate, I like.
(1) Why invest when we’re not willing to protect our investment? We let every nation have access to our technology for free.
(2) Our taxpayer investment in technology usually ends up creating overseas jobs.
(3) Colleges and universities already feel they have a blank check from the government. They go up to whatever they want and they know student loans will pick up the tab.
(4) Maybe colleges and universities should stick to what they know best — indoctrination of students to their liberal political beliefs and telling students there is no God.
Personally, I am not feeling they need a lot more of my money.
Maybe the gov’t teat suckers can eschew CO2 is a bad thing (as are nuke plants).
It takes hundreds of pages of regulatory paper work to be filed just to run a simple little biotech pilot study. How can innovation thrive in such an environment?
Money always goes to cheap labor (always has, always will)...but when labor gets dear (as it is getting in China and India), money comes homes to our American robots and infrastructure.
Luddites are so 19th century.
Take a course in economics and watch some Milton Friedman videos on youtube.
Life is not fixed in time and space. Things change and the world changes with them.
Should we really be “investing” in Gender Studies in order to advance the economy and individual wealth?
Works like this:
(1) U.S. company comes up with invention.
(2) U.S. company outsources production to other Country (i.e. China).
(3) China company produces product for U.S. company.
(4) China company copies invention product and sells it for less.
(5) U.S. company goes bankrupt as could not compete due to higher taxes and regulations.
(6) China company becomes source of invention product.
(7) China company gets rich.
(8) U.S. company workers go on unemployment.
Our Ruling Class has made themselves and their cronies their top funding priorities. Next on the list are illegal aliens and homos. Scientists will have to wait their turn.
Wonder how much of the “research” has to do with green energy? Seems like a lot of money has been spent (wasted?) on green energy technologies.
Our high tech electronic companies do a pretty good job of keeping up and optimizing and shrinking. However, we don’t manufacture here in the States much.
We might be behind in medical research.
I assume it is true. those that subsist on grants are crying for more grants.
the part that is not at all true is that the 1979 DOE study spawned the shale gas and oil revolution.
the wells completed in that time with DOE funding were found to rely almost entirely on natural fracture porosity and permeability, which is a production enhancing natural feature, but not mandatory for commercial production.
decades of private enterprise and billions of private funds risked spawned the shale boom, not 6 guys with some grant money. hydraulic fracturing was around for over 30 years prior to that study. for a cup of coffee I or thousands of others could have explained that even though often naturally fractured but a low permeability rock, shale reservoirs require hydraulic fracturing to produce economically, basically what the 1979 DOE report states.
what did keep shale on the radar in the late 80s and early 90s was TAX breaks for exploration. about one in 2000 wells were diligently “studied” by DOE. these tax breaks expired, but by then private industry had it figured out vertically. once married with horizontal drilling technology of the late 90s and 2000s, it went nuts.
It's quality that counts, not quantity.
Companies who create don't share their technology. We have patent rights for that.
Works like this:
(1) U.S. company comes up with invention.
(2) U.S. company outsources production to other Country (i.e. China).
(3) China company produces product for U.S. company.
(4) China company copies invention product and sells it for less.
(5) U.S. company goes bankrupt as could not compete due to higher taxes and regulations.
(6) China company becomes source of invention product.
(7) China company gets rich.
(8) U.S. company workers go on unemployment.
Very true.
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