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Re:I'm not surprised by Solandri · 2018-01-24 01:24 · Score: 1, Troll · on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com)

Congratulations. You got everything wrong. Even by randomly guessing, you should've gotten half your statements right.

we keep cutting funding to education and research.

Spending on education is up.
Non-defense R&D spending is up.

Companies don't innovate. There's not enough money on the table to make it worth while. Aside from the occasional bored aristocrat it's mostly been the government that financed innovation; usually through the public university system. But nobody wants to pay the taxes for that.

Corporations spend roughly twice as much money on R&D as the government.

Heck, we just borrowed $1.5 trillion over 10 years to finance massive tax cuts

The last major tax cut was 15 years ago. The drop in tax revenue in the last decade was due to the recession following the collapse of the housing bubble. Currently, tax revenue is back up to "normal" levels (if you define the highest it's ever been historically as "normal").

What's busting the budget is a refusal to cut spending to match revenue (notice the trendline for tax receipts is flat, while the trendline for spending is climbing). This is primarily driven by growth of entitlement programs. The CBO has been warning us about that since at least 1998 (when I started reading the CBO reports).

And before you claim we should balance the budget by paying more taxes, consider that the tax burden in the U.S. is already among the highest in the world. People claiming U.S. taxes are low usually only look at Federal taxes, and fail to account for state and local taxes. U.S. tax burden is the third highest of the 20 largest economies in the world (only France and Italy have a higher tax burden). That's right, Americans pay more taxes (as percent of GDP) than socialist countries like Canada, the UK, Germany.

Summary even states that the main reason the U.S. dropped was because of low percentage of STEM college graduates.

Re:Lame duck by Curunir_wolf · 2015-07-07 10:30 · Score: 1 · on Silicon Valley Is Filling Up With Ex-Obama Staffers

Rove isn't a neocon, he's a partisan Republican. He will support whoever is in power, as long as it's a Republican.

You are quite wrong. Rove started the American Crossroads PAC specifically to oust the liberty and evangelicals from party leadership, right down to the local committee level. I've seen it in action. If he's supporting the Neocons (he is) maybe it's because they are still in power, right?

There is no one left who will say, "What's good for America is good for the world" as a justification to start wars, and PNAC closed a long time ago.

PNAC may have dissolved, but the Kagans (including Robert Kagan's wife, Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland) are still very active promoting the same type of interventionist foreign policies. And still very influential. Their latest funding / lobbying group is the Foreign Policy Initiative. Check it out.

The terrorists are already here. by bmo · 2013-09-02 06:59 · Score: 5, Insightful · on New Snowden Revelation: Terrorists Attempting To Infiltrate CIA

Look at who signed this.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/experts-obama-here-what-do-syria_751267.html

The same old bunch of neocon bastards that lied us into Iraq as far back as the "Open Letter to Bill Clinton back in 1998.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

And really, read the rest of the PNAC site.

PNAC morphed into the Foreign Policy Initiative

http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about/staff
http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about

Even during Mitt Romney's candidacy Mittens had a fucking wb page *titled* "new american century* with much of the above philosophy basically cut-and-pasted. Which shouldn't be surprising since his foreign policy "brain trust" consisted of FPI bastards. Up to and including Dan Senor (FPI and PNAC alum) on Meet The Press saying that we should bomb Iran back then.

Read. It's not conspiracy theory when it's from their own mouths.

I wouldn't put it past these bastards to hire someone to detonate a sarin bomb in Damascus to gin up an excuse for an invasion. And now they're wondering what the fuck to do now that the President just said "Well, we should have Congress' input on this."

Fuck these guys for wanting to get us involved in another war where there is no winning, just more death.

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BMO

The terrorists are already here. by bmo · 2013-09-02 06:59 · Score: 5, Insightful · on New Snowden Revelation: Terrorists Attempting To Infiltrate CIA

Look at who signed this.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/experts-obama-here-what-do-syria_751267.html

The same old bunch of neocon bastards that lied us into Iraq as far back as the "Open Letter to Bill Clinton back in 1998.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

And really, read the rest of the PNAC site.

PNAC morphed into the Foreign Policy Initiative

http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about/staff
http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about

Even during Mitt Romney's candidacy Mittens had a fucking wb page *titled* "new american century* with much of the above philosophy basically cut-and-pasted. Which shouldn't be surprising since his foreign policy "brain trust" consisted of FPI bastards. Up to and including Dan Senor (FPI and PNAC alum) on Meet The Press saying that we should bomb Iran back then.

Read. It's not conspiracy theory when it's from their own mouths.

I wouldn't put it past these bastards to hire someone to detonate a sarin bomb in Damascus to gin up an excuse for an invasion. And now they're wondering what the fuck to do now that the President just said "Well, we should have Congress' input on this."

Fuck these guys for wanting to get us involved in another war where there is no winning, just more death.

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BMO

Re:Another company moving to China by bmo · 2013-05-06 13:02 · Score: 1 · on BMC Going Private In $6.9 Billion Deal

Neo-con: a conservative who supports a strong-pro-Israel middle east policy. I don't think Romney had a position either way on that

His whole foreign policy page was *titled* "American Century" and he gave a speech on a "New American Century."

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-10-07/politics/35277977_1_clarity-of-american-purpose-mitt-romney-isolationist-shell

He didn't think of that on his own. His foreign policy page and speech echoed the Project for a New American Century and its descendant the Foreign Policy Initiative.

Listen to his speech, then read this:

http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

Then look at the signatories.

And read the FPI statement:

http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about

Former members of PNAC are now members of FPI. Indeed, 3 of the 4 board members of FPI were Romney's foreign policy advisors. Dan Senor (his head foreign policy wonk) said on Meet The Press that we'd unquestionably back Israel in an invasion of Iran. Romney didn't back away from that.

Romney is a neocon.

We narrowly escaped having to pay for a *third* war in the middle-east.

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BMO

Re:Bullshit. by bmo · 2012-09-03 21:29 · Score: 2 · on Iran and North Korea Team Up To Fight State-Sponsored Malware

there's an argument for nipping the problem in the bud before the mistake happens. an unstable idiot with a gun is a problem. no matter how faulty the gun or how many cops are standing around him

There is an argument, but the argument needs to be tempered with "how many lives is this going to cost us nipping it in the bud?" Because you *know* that an actual invasion over the DMZ or by sea means that everything stationed by NK behind the DMZ gets launched.

Diplomacy has worked over the past decades, because it has prevented war that would have levelled Seoul, because we know that they know that crossing the DMZ means cruise missile strikes on all thier SAM bases and then tons of bombs from BUFs. As crazy as you think the North Koreans are, there is a method to their madness.

And MAD still exists. Except that it's not mutual, it's simply assured destruction by us of anyone who uses a nuke against us, even if all they have is one.

just that you are wrong that this kind of thing just goes away on its own

No. It doesn't go away on its own. That's what diplomacy is for. If you resort to invasion it means that you have failed.

Your mistake is that you think diplomacy is "doing nothing." It's not.

What frightens me is the assholes from PNAC and FPI who are advising Romney are pushing for an interventionist "strike first, ask questions later" military policy. An Imperial America, if you will. It's not like these guys are hiding it.

Read from their own mouths:

http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about/ - the current Neocon philosophy on foreign policy and the military.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm - The predecessor for the above.

http://www.mittromney.com/collection/foreign-policy - Mitt Romney's official stance on the "American Century" (he did not pick this title by accident).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romney-taps-foreign-policy-national-security-advisers/2011/10/06/gIQAnDHzPL_story.html - the article describing who is on Mitt's staff.

http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about/staff - Listing of staff at FPI.

Please notice the similarity of individuals at both think-tanks and who is staffing Mitt's foreign policy jobs, and the similarities in philosophy all of the above is.

Taken as a totality, it is frightening, because it basically guarantees that we will be at least in a shooting war with Iran if Romney gets elected. They will *insist* he does so.