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Unless you have some facts to support this claim it seems you have a clear misunderstanding of the private sector.Private investors care more about the short term bottom line than they do for the long term ramifications that studies like the one we are discussing are providing. Which is hardly the fault of private citizens earning their buck, but again this whole line of discussion is pointless.
Unless you have some facts to support this claim it seems you have a clear misunderstanding of the private sector.
What the private sector is now doing, thanks to government largess and the power structure, is lobbying for government grants knowing they can get the taxpayer to take the risks, thus limiting their own exposure. If it becomes successful then they stand to make a bundle, with the most recent and famous government failure being Solyndra. You can bet that the executives and their friends didn't lose money.
These $3 million shrimp experiments go largely unnoticed and although $3 million sounds trivial we can be reasonably certain that someone besides scientists is making money from this and that there might well be political connections involved.
There are many private companies which do their own Research and Development and are hugely successful. Taxpayer money is not a requirement and never has been.
Yes. Eventually the system corrupts both government and the private sector.Private R&D groups do develop breakthroughs in science and technology but does that mean we shouldn't provide tax dollars for advancements that wouldn't directly impact a private companies bottom line like Shrimp anatomy?
Minorities cannot be racist against the majority, they've no systemic privilege to perpetuate.
Oh lordie... not this again. :lol:
It's not like I'm gonna stop saying it. Every time, more people understand.
What about the Africans that sold the Africans? They're racist, too?
All I've heard, is that The Founders were racists. No one has made any exceptions.
Revering them as Gods? Do you have a link, or is this just more leftist hyperbole?In general they were. As great as many of their ideas were, they were products of their times. All I've heard from the Right is how we should be revering these men as gods.
Yes, the shrimp treadmill research cost taxpayers more than $3 million over the course of a decade. That includes a $559,681 grant for research into "Impaired Metabolism and Performance in Crustaceans Exposed to Bacteria."
A statement to Al Jazeera from Gov. Bobby Jindal's office reads, "Gulf seafood has consistently tested lower than the safety thresholds established by the FDA for the levels of oil and dispersant contamination that would pose a risk to human health. ... Louisiana seafood continues to go through extensive testing to ensure that seafood is safe for human consumption. More than 3,000 composite samples of seafood, sediment and water have been tested in Louisiana since the start of the spill."
Revering them as Gods? Do you have a link, or is this just more leftist hyperbole?
Revering them as Gods? Do you have a link, or is this just more leftist hyperbole?
No, i don't go along with the idea that they were Gods or 'borderline' blasphemy' to be critical of them.I think you are smart enough to know hyperbole when you see it. The point is, many on the Right consider it borderline blasphemy to be critical of the Founders in any way.
if we are to be critical shouldn't we be looking at their work and what they did for their country and the dangers they faced while doing it?
What's happened, in the celebrity environment of today, is to judge people quite apart from their world and accomplishments but, as others have pointed out, judged them by today's 'feelings'.Everyone is going to come up short using these measurements and the US, as well as any other country, will have no heroes to admire, to inspire those behind them.
But let's spend more time on the deeds they've done, the accomplishments they've made.
A country with no heroes is a sad place to live.
The Communists would use this propaganda
Which was formerly Washington's Birthday. That mediocre Presidents should share the same holiday as the first US President suggests changes are happening in American schools and the people who contributed so much to its founding are being trivialized..We already do that in history class. And we go above and beyond reverence with holidays like President's Day.
Yes, but the faults, like gossip, can be exaggerated to the point where they become more important than the greatness which was achieved, as though they should have shared billing.You can be inspired by someone while acknowledging their faults.
What is being taught about George Washington and his attitude to his slaves? Did he treat them kindly? Did he rescue them from worse slave owners? How deeply does the subject get into the slave trade and how it effected the American people of the day? Unless an important topic like this is discussed at much greater length I don't see the point in mentioning the subject at all, if the subject is George Washington and his importance to American history.George Washington was a great leader, thinker, and showed humility by declining a third term in office. At the same time, he owned slaves. Yes, it should be discussed within the context of the times, but do you really think that kind of fact should be ignored?
And George Washington did lose occasionally, and it should be mentioned. I have not suggested that any leader can 'do no wrong', and I would not encourage that idea. But is it necessary to mention MLK was a womanizer, or a suspected Communist? Why not study people like Washington, King, Kennedy or Lincoln in the context of their historical importance?And a country where its leaders can do no wrong can be a dangerous one.
What the communists did, and did well, was to denigrate all Americans and their history through unlimited propaganda, and it worked. It's a little disappointing to see Americans themselves continuing along the same path.The Communists (particularly in North Korea) use propaganda to make their leaders out to be perfect human beings if not gods. People like Navy Pride want to put the Founding Fathers on a pedestal that is not far off from what those dictatorships do.
Which was formerly Washington's Birthday. That mediocre Presidents should share the same holiday as the first US President suggests changes are happening in American schools and the people who contributed so much to its founding are being trivialized..
A generic Presidents Day to honor Lincoln?That's absurd. The change was to also honor Lincoln, whose birthday was Feb. 12.
A generic Presidents Day to honor Lincoln?
It was combining Washington and Lincoln into one holiday. Yeesh.
So it is a generic President's Day to honor Washington and Lincoln, neither of whom are mentioned? Great stuff!
You bought that, huh?
Except that's exactly what happened. Your idea that it was to honor Lincoln only means that you will believe whatever you're told.Yeah, the REAL reason was to take the focus off the founders. Part of the great progressive plot to create another day of sales at Walmart.
The idea that Washington's Birthday became President's Day as some sort of nefarious attempt at historical revisionism is laughably preposterous.
Except that's exactly what happened. Your idea that it was to honor Lincoln only means that you will believe whatever you're told.
Under a far left administration this is what is happening in our country.
School's Nation of Islam handout paints Founding Fathers as racists | Fox News
By Todd Starnes
Published October 27, 2014FoxNews.com
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The mother of an eight-year-old wants to know why a Tennessee school teacher gave her child a handout from the Nation of Islam that portrayed the presidents on Mount Rushmore as being racists.
That's already been explained to you.But YOU know the REAL reason, amirite? Do you have any evidence to support your cockamamie theory?
That's already been explained to you.
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