Posted on 06/09/2016 9:56:26 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi Claims Government Created the iPhone, Not Steve Jobs or Apple Aaron Kliegman
BY: June 9, 2016 10:45 am
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) claimed Thursday that the federal government created the iPhone rather than the technology company Apple or its former chief executive officer, Steve Jobs.
“Anybody here have a smartphone?” Pelosi asked an audience at a Democratic National Convention Platform hearing in Washington, D.C.
Pelosi then held up an iPhone for everyone to see, telling those in the room, “In this smartphone, almost everything came from federal investments in research.”
She then listed elements of the iPhone that various parts of the government have contributed to in certain ways.
“The list goes on and on. If you want to learn more, look at the Association for the Advancement of Science in America, and they have the full list,” Pelosi said. “They say Steve Jobs did a good idea designing it and putting it together. Federal research invented it.”
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It would need a pristine social security card in a reader at random to work. The slightest wrinkle or mark would cause it to be rejected.
Female Kip Chalmers.
I could go with that.
And you'd be required to carry it.
+1.
Who has the most patents ? Government or private industry ? And you can forget about government research discovering anything in the future. It has to comply with ridiculous Global warming mandates and Political correctness restrictions. In the coming ice age, the Black Market rules.
Deep thoughts from Miss San Fran Nan.
Lyin’ Nancy and Crooked Hillary. Perfect pair.
Wheels optional but expect a hefty tax and random checkpoints to make sure that you and it are in compliance with whatever whim the betters come up with.
Hmmm! Since the federal government has no money of it’s own to invest in research, I guess the taxpayers invented the iPhone.
Nanzi Pelozi is nutz!
The Bing Bat is back
The iPhone is based on thousands of inventions occurring over many years.
Nah, Nancy Pelosi invented it after Al Gore gave her the idea.
compensating for how utterly useless SHE and BIG BRO are.......
the old hag is a lunatic who helped foist obamacare on people who the government thought were stupid.......
Another “you didn’t build that” moment?
Okay, fine!
Then that applies to MORONS who come from public schools.
Absolutely correct. Sir Isaac Newton, no less, said that " If I have seen further it's because I have stood on the shoulders of giants" and he had a lot more to boast about than Nancy Pelosi and her government research.
Basic research? Look to the network of universities and their associated National Laboratories -- more NGOs who moved technology forward.
I don’t care who invented it, just stop using it to take pictures of yourself at the shooting range! Damn kids. grumble grumble grumble
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