Obama Says 3% of GDP Should Fund Science Research And Development

tritonman writes "Obama wants to set a goal that the US spend 3% of its GDP on scientific research and development. 'I believe it is not in our character, American character, to follow — but to lead. And it is time for us to lead once again. I am here today to set this goal: we will devote more than 3 percent of our GDP to research and development,' Obama said in a speech at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences."

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Right wing radio already running with this...

[RingDev]

Today at lunch I had to run some errands, so I turned on the radio, still tuned to an AM channel I catch a show on in my morning commutes.

On the radio is one Mike Gallagher, I've never heard him before, so I figured I'd give it a listen.

He played the first maybe 15 seconds of Obama's speech from this morning's conference. The part about "we must not allow the US to fall behind". But instead of playing the rest of the speech, which I had heard in full earlier in the morning, he stopped there. He didn't complete the context nor even mention the investment in education and research. He played that first sound bite, then stated repeatedly that Obama was going to use the Swine Flu to push Universal Health Care through. He then went on to cite "a blog" that had post about how we need to close off the boarders, because it is due to our open boarders that the illegal immigrants have brought the swine flu to the US and events like 9/11 happen.

I was dumb struck. I could understand the half quote and missing context to attempt to rile the base up in opposition to universal health care. Not that it will do much good, the Dems are looking to have enough votes to ram through damn near anything they want at this point. But to blame the swine flu on illegal immigrants?

Most of what I've read on the migration of the flu has been primarily due to College and High-school kids who went to Mexico over spring break. Unless Gallagher is suggesting that rogue illegal Mexican immigrants are jumping from Mexico to the mid west and up to New Your with out infecting anyone on the way. And once they are in those locations, they are not seeking medical assistance.

But to go even further as to blame 9/11 on lax boarder security, when all of the 9/11 hijackers were in the US on legal VISAs...

It is insulting and immoral to spread such lies. I am continuously amazed at the lack of factual information on syndicated radio broadcasts.

-Rick