Please let me know if I'm wrong here, but it seems that as exciting as it might seem to have Darpa working on all this "neat stuff", the reality is its really just a highly inefficient way to stimulate the economy. After all, the real goal of theses projects is simply to inject federal (the publics money) spending into congressional districts and funnel it into private hands, ie. job creation, etc to stimulate the local economies of every congressional district. Unfortunately, there's a tremendous amount of waste and graft. Ultimately this R&D should also lead to advanced consumer products, and it does work that way sometimes, but by and large, its mostly inefficient. It's socialism, but a highly convoluted and inhumane socialism. For example, instead of giving our low skilled under-educated citizens jobs being productive, we remove them from the job market usually by shipping them over seas where they're paid a very low wage to remain under-educated and unproductive. Ironicly, the military industrial complex that helped get us out of the great depression, is about to send us back into another one.
"We in the US are a bunch of whiny, bitchy cry-babies."
Obviously you are speaking for your self, but please for the sake of sanity, stop bashing the US!!!
This notion that responsibility for maintaining and protecting shared resources, i.e. the air we breath lies on the individual acting individually is absurd. I'm not explicitly trying to call your character into question but frankly I don't trust you to get on your bike tomorrow morning and "do the right thing" nor should I be expected to. It would be irresponsible. That's the purpose of government in a democracy, to pool together the resources of all the individuals and enforce equitable and responsible civic behavior. Right now the oil and gas corporations and their extensions in the white house and congress in cohort with the auto industry are forcing us to harm ourselves for their profit. There is no other recourse but collective action. A 2 second googling shows that some of the same manufacturing companies that sell 30 mpg cars in the US and call them "efficient" are selling cars in Europe that get 60 mpg!
God! I wish I could "unstuck" you, there really is no "conservative" or "hippie" they're just hypnotic identities, cleverly crafted marketing schemes.
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Please let me know if I'm wrong here, but it seems that as exciting as it might seem to have Darpa working on all this "neat stuff", the reality is its really just a highly inefficient way to stimulate the economy. After all, the real goal of theses projects is simply to inject federal (the publics money) spending into congressional districts and funnel it into private hands, ie. job creation, etc to stimulate the local economies of every congressional district. Unfortunately, there's a tremendous amount of waste and graft. Ultimately this R&D should also lead to advanced consumer products, and it does work that way sometimes, but by and large, its mostly inefficient. It's socialism, but a highly convoluted and inhumane socialism. For example, instead of giving our low skilled under-educated citizens jobs being productive, we remove them from the job market usually by shipping them over seas where they're paid a very low wage to remain under-educated and unproductive. Ironicly, the military industrial complex that helped get us out of the great depression, is about to send us back into another one.
"We in the US are a bunch of whiny, bitchy cry-babies."
Obviously you are speaking for your self, but please for the sake of sanity, stop bashing the US!!!
This notion that responsibility for maintaining and protecting shared resources, i.e. the air we breath lies on the individual acting individually is absurd. I'm not explicitly trying to call your character into question but frankly I don't trust you to get on your bike tomorrow morning and "do the right thing" nor should I be expected to. It would be irresponsible. That's the purpose of government in a democracy, to pool together the resources of all the individuals and enforce equitable and responsible civic behavior. Right now the oil and gas corporations and their extensions in the white house and congress in cohort with the auto industry are forcing us to harm ourselves for their profit. There is no other recourse but collective action. A 2 second googling shows that some of the same manufacturing companies that sell 30 mpg cars in the US and call them "efficient" are selling cars in Europe that get 60 mpg!
God! I wish I could "unstuck" you, there really is no "conservative" or "hippie" they're just hypnotic identities, cleverly crafted marketing schemes.