Re: Democratic Party may not be around much longer
- From: Johnny <apterix@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 06:59:16 -0800
$Bill wrote:
Unclaimed Mysteries wrote:
Snopes says yes, with a reference to H.L. Hunt in the original: http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/ike.asp
This is the kind of thinking I wish my libertarianistical brahs would understand. You can't just reset the economy to zero and let the free market *instantly* make everything better. You have to:
1) Choose wisely the programs you want to remove from government responsibility. There is more than one kind of welfare (cough NASA cough).
Cough - NASA has given back in scientific breakthroughs that may have pretty much paid for their own existence - cough.
Exactly. Exhibit "A" is the technology we use to send and receive these very messages. The Space Program has been described as the greatest public works project since the Great Pyramids.* However, unlike the Pyramids, the Space Program delivered and continues to deliver a myriad of technologies that we take for granted but which are in fact giant leaps in the history of technological progress. Who would have imagined 50 years ago that within a single generation a grain of sand would be the seed of a technological revolution unsurpassed in the history of Science?
*See, e.g., "The Invisible Pyramid" by Loren C. Eiseley. The late Dr. Eiseley was a philosophically and humanistically inclined anthropologist of some renown whose writing skills and readability are so highly regarded that his work, especially his masterpiece, "The Immense Journey," has been used in college English rhetoric classes. Here are some links to one of my favorite authors:
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/eiseley_loren.html http://www.eiseley.unomaha.edu/ http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/loren_eiseley.html
-Johnny. <= "Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars / Let me see what Spring is like on Jupiter and Mars"
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