The Future of Innovation: Can America Keep Pace?

[P F Tinmore]

How can we stay ahead in the world if we treat education as an extra cost option?

 

[P F Tinmore]

Who the h*ll is the gov to be telling us wee folk to go innovate?

go innovate a federal budget that makes sense

innovate foriegn policy that makes sense

innovate an energy agenda that makes sense

innovate an enviromental poilicy that makes sense

innovate a tax structure that makes sense

then get back to us....


~S~

War is our budget policy.

War is our foreign policy.

War is our energy policy.

 

[Samson]

Who the h*ll is the gov to be telling us wee folk to go innovate?

go innovate a federal budget that makes sense

innovate foriegn policy that makes sense

innovate an energy agenda that makes sense

innovate an enviromental poilicy that makes sense

innovate a tax structure that makes sense

then get back to us....


~S~

War is our budget policy.

War is our foreign policy.

War is our energy policy.

"War: What IS it good for?"

Well, I suppose you answered that question.

Edwin Starr will be disappointed.

 

[Samson]

How can we stay ahead in the world if we treat education as an extra cost option?

What?

You haven't noticed the vast improvements in US education since the Establishment of The Department of Education!!!????



By the way, before all you wonky partisan parrots all begin to drop eggs on the Hapless Democrat, Jimmy Carter, BOTH Bushs (semi-Republicans) supported and expanded the budget for the DOE:

The Department of Education itself has grown by 69.6 percent between 2002 and 2004: from $46,282 million in FY2002 to $60,600 million in FY2004. This is a remarkable increase from a party so recently committed to devolving control over education — and the silence of loyalists on this issue is still more remarkable.

Elimination Lost: What happened to abolishing the Department of Education?

 

[Samson]

Much of innovation in America for the past couple of decades has just been for innovations sake and served little real purpose.

Much like Masturbation: Without the hairy palms.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

The Future of Innovation: Can America Keep Pace?
By Fareed Zakaria Sunday, June 05, 2011

"The first step to winning the future is encouraging American innovation." That was Barack Obama in his State of the Union address last January, when he hit the theme repeatedly, using the word innovation or innovate 11 times. And on this issue, at least, Republicans seem in sync with Obama. Listen to Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or Mitch Daniels and the word innovation pops up again and again. Everyone wants innovation and agrees that it is the key to America's future.

Innovation is as American as apple pie. It seems to accord with so many elements of our national character — ingenuity, freedom, flexibility, the willingness to question conventional wisdom and defy authority. But politicians are pinning their hopes on innovation for more urgent reasons. America's future growth will have to come from new industries that create new products and processes. Older industries are under tremendous pressure. Technological change is making factories and offices far more efficient. The rise of low-wage manufacturing in China and low-wage services in India is moving jobs overseas. The only durable strength we have — the only one that can withstand these gale winds — is innovation.

The Future of U.S. Innovation: Can Americans Keep Pace? - TIME

We won't be able to without investments in future technologies. We won't be able to without investments in education. We are falling too far behind other countries and I don't know if we are going to be able to catch up unless we do something soon.

Jesus H Christ on a raft, we practically DID invent the internet in the United States and yet our broadband infrastructure is ranked 29th in the world. That's fucking sad...

Interestingly there is innovation in fossil fuel exploitation, particularly natural gas.

If automobiles were converted to natural gas (methane) engines, the USA would have enough fuel for it's transportation needs for centuries. The need to update the fuel infrastructure would create millions of DOMESTIC jobs. Obama has recognized this potential, however he lacks the leadership charateristic to implement a plan.

Yeah....we wouldn't want to burden The Marketplace with such.....

....promotional-effort$.

(Obama's expected to run Madison Avenue, as well??

)​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Everything Obama and the Dems have been doing is designed to crush innovation.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....another long-list of examples.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

How ironic.

You "conservatives" do everything you CAN, to gut any-and-all school-programs that encourage imagination & creativity....and, then, whine & complain when schools can only manage to produce glorified bean-counters, like yourselves!

What school programs encourage imagination & creativity?

Only a "conservative" could manage to ask such a stupid, fuckin' question.​

"A recent Newsweek cover story cited an IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs who identified creativity as the primary competency necessary in our work force to lead our nation to a prosperous future. So, creative talent, too, must be nurtured in our future hires.

How, then, do we cultivate creativity as something to be taught in our educational system? It is almost trite to say that the arts inspire creativity, but arts education is often relegated to the margins of formal education as something leisurely, non-academic or unrelated to employment or the economy."

Arts Education; Savior to the Economy?​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

How ironic.

You "conservatives" do everything you CAN, to gut any-and-all school-programs that encourage imagination & creativity....and, then, whine & complain when schools can only manage to produce glorified bean-counters, like yourselves!

What school programs encourage imagination & creativity?

Charter schools and vouchers, the ones the left doesn't like.

Gee....whatta well thought-out (Limbaugh-style) response.

 

[P F Tinmore]

How ironic.

You "conservatives" do everything you CAN, to gut any-and-all school-programs that encourage imagination & creativity....and, then, whine & complain when schools can only manage to produce glorified bean-counters, like yourselves!

What school programs encourage imagination & creativity?

Charter schools and vouchers, the ones the left doesn't like.

"You can send your kids to a private school like the rich people do."

Then they give you a voucher that would not buy lunch at a real private school.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

The Future of Innovation: Can America Keep Pace?
By Fareed Zakaria Sunday, June 05, 2011

"The first step to winning the future is encouraging American innovation." That was Barack Obama in his State of the Union address last January, when he hit the theme repeatedly, using the word innovation or innovate 11 times. And on this issue, at least, Republicans seem in sync with Obama. Listen to Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or Mitch Daniels and the word innovation pops up again and again. Everyone wants innovation and agrees that it is the key to America's future.

Innovation is as American as apple pie. It seems to accord with so many elements of our national character — ingenuity, freedom, flexibility, the willingness to question conventional wisdom and defy authority. But politicians are pinning their hopes on innovation for more urgent reasons. America's future growth will have to come from new industries that create new products and processes. Older industries are under tremendous pressure. Technological change is making factories and offices far more efficient. The rise of low-wage manufacturing in China and low-wage services in India is moving jobs overseas. The only durable strength we have — the only one that can withstand these gale winds — is innovation.

The Future of U.S. Innovation: Can Americans Keep Pace? - TIME

Ok, I got the cheese of the Time Article.

large amounts of government funding. The latter may be a controversial topic in theory, but in practice, the rise of technology was clearly fueled by government.

Exactly......​

"Let's talk about the question of why people are wealthy. There is a myth that it's a function of enormous personal attributes. There's a myth that achieving wealth is a function of personal intelligence and energy and thus that the product of that intelligence and energy being wealth is the sole and exclusive possession of the person who developed and earned it. And that myth is so egregious. It's just egregious. You know when you start off with a proposition, let's take our mythical hero and as Warren Buffet loves to say, let's take this person and instead of having him born in the District of Columbia, let's have him born in Abuja, Nigeria, and let's reexamine his life in that setting and let's look at what his net worth turns out to be when he or she dies. And of course the answer is zero.

What is the difference? The difference is being an American. We live in a place which is orderly. We live in a place which has markets that you can count on. Next Tuesday is going to be very much like today and the Tuesday after that. This is an orderly, stable place. It's a place where markets work because there is legal structure to support it. It's a place where people can own property and protect it. It's a place that has a court system that works. It's a place that has basically a government that works, so that you have the opportunity to think and to plan and to build and to create.

To me, the thing that is left out of that equation, you know, the orderliness, the stability, the markets, those things are arguably a bit indirect. There are some things that our government does with its tax money which directly create personal wealth and that is the enormous federal research activity. Do you know there would not be an Internet but for federal research money? There would not be new biotechnological companies but for the federal research effort. There would not be an examination of the human genome without the federal research effort. In those university laboratories is the seed of the health of our economy."

Bill Gates Sr.​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Conservatives believe in innovation in bundling junk mortgages and such.

The liberal conception of innovation is shutting down power plants that work so we can depend on power plants that produce no power.

Yeah....right....it's Liberals who run those....

...hu$tle$.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

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I wonder if Sheman is the only poster left who sees posts from Sheman?

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Who the h*ll is the gov to be telling us wee folk to go innovate?

go innovate a federal budget that makes sense

innovate foriegn policy that makes sense

innovate an energy agenda that makes sense

innovate an enviromental poilicy that makes sense

innovate a tax structure that makes sense

then get back to us....


~S~

i.e....you need the federal-government to do everything for you.

Lemme guess....you're another o' those new Libertarians, right??

 

[Mr. Shaman]

How can we stay ahead in the world if we treat education as an extra cost option?

Hey...you know...if there're no short-term-profits, it must be European (in "conservatives'" eyes).

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Who the h*ll is the gov to be telling us wee folk to go innovate?

go innovate a federal budget that makes sense

innovate foriegn policy that makes sense

innovate an energy agenda that makes sense

innovate an enviromental poilicy that makes sense

innovate a tax structure that makes sense

then get back to us....


~S~

War is our budget policy.

War is our foreign policy.

War is our energy policy.

War is a CHICKENHAWK policy.

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[CrusaderFrank]

Obama is continuing Cheny's War in Iraq and Afghanistan plus started a few of his own

 

[P F Tinmore]

Obama is continuing Cheny's War in Iraq and Afghanistan plus started a few of his own

I did not vote for Obama because I saw four more years of Bush.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Obama is continuing Cheny's War in Iraq and Afghanistan plus started a few of his own

I did not vote for Obama because I saw four more years of Bush.

Everything's temporary.....

(...Despite what the "conservatives'" clerics tell you.)​