djackson 22568 (4/18/2013)
patrickmcginnis59 10839 (4/17/2013)
Jim P. (4/17/2013)
Well I'll let you do the pro/con research into Agenda 21.Then there is Solyndra. They had $535,000,000 in loan guarantees from the federal government. When they went belly up the U.S. taxpayer is on the hook for it and the CEO's walked away with millions.
These I do give you. However its not unheard of that governments have taken risky investments when driving change, look at the arpanet etc... Also, its expected that the earlier the efforts are in the processes of change, the riskier they are. Do we give up?
The US constitution does NOT give the federal government the authority to "invest" in green technology.
I for one however think that its good policy. Private industry won't do it unless there are incentives. I used to be sort of on the fence about this, but some projects fall into a class of endeavours where private industry just lacks even the ability to tackle this stuff. Big important questions that involve all of us are by definition public policy.
This doesn't mean that we need to discount either the conservative, liberal or whatever viewpoint, thats why we have elections to hopefully reach a concensus about big matters.
The "conservative leadership" won't actually do something about the abuse of power, as that might preclude them from abusing that same power when they are in control. The "liberal leadership" won't do anything when the conservatives are in power for the same reason. We, the tax payers, are left paying for billion dollar vacations, jets to fly politicians all over the world, all the time being told we pollute too much. Really?
I don't have to accept billion dollar vacations even when liking public investment with regard to these long term projects.
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