On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:10:32 -0800, "John R. Carroll"
wrote:

Had Rick Waggoner stood up and told Chris Dodd that if Congress would
provide the financing GM had delivered it's last gas only vehicle, he would
have stunned the room and then gotten a standing ovation AND the money, as
much as was required, from the assembled. GM could be out taking orders for
a vehicle to be named later this very day and Congress could agree to have
the Treasury Dept. securitize those orders to provide the cash back to GM.
It would be a self licking ice cream cone.

Let's point out another governmental fault:

At one time there was a plan to build the Super Conducting Super
Collider (SCSC) in Texas. This basic research into particle physics is
the missing part in eventually changing the world over to nuclear
fusion power (NOT fission...which we already have).

The funding for the SCSC was cancelled after some Senate dumb****
asked one of the physicists on the team requesting funding for the
project, "Will this help us find God?"

No ****.

The physicist didn't know how to answer and the funding got cancelled.

We now have a consortium at CERN building the Large Hadron Collider
(it's done...they're working out some kinks). Apparently all the
research data will be shared amongst the international consortium
members.

So instead of being the sole world leader in the field of power
creation through nuclear fusion, the US will be an "also ran" and all
because the lawyer classes that end up in the Senate are
scientifically RETARDED!!!

So much for the product lead in electric vehicle technology in Detroit
also. If there had been a major push to fusion, they would have been
completely on board with it and once again the Big Three would be on
TOP of the market.

So is the US government made of of a completely blind collection of
coke head pedophiles that pontificate that they are important people?
Hell yes it is. If you've ever had any dealing with Federal officials,
you can spot a stupid incompetent asshole everywhere you look. They
have totally departed from reality.
Dave