Joe Heller for November 08, 2013

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    Dtroutma  over 10 years ago

    Big Agriculture makes the biggest profits off the program, as well as it’s other “relatives” in Dept. of Agriculture programs.

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    ConserveGov  over 10 years ago

    It’s a well known fact that conservatives give a lot more to charity than liberals.Maybe all the whining Dems should start supporting their local charities.

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    I Play One On TV  over 10 years ago

    " Why are not the loony liberal up in arms about that?"

    I can only speak for one loony liberal: it’s better to try to achieve something valuable and fail than to never try. If nothing else, you learn and adapt.

    Ask the Wright Brothers whether they flew the first time they tried. But air travel, as we all know, has no value in the real world these days…..

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    ARodney  over 10 years ago

    I love these supposed conservatives that insist that we shouldn’t be providing food through private businesses and grocery stores, per the SNAP program, but through nonprofits, where no private businesses are making any money. Reality check: letting poor Americans starve is actually bad for the economy, and unlike the ACA, it actually, measurably, kills jobs.

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    I Play One On TV  over 10 years ago

    I will accept your premise, but I still hold to mine. I will be happy to accept progress, regardless of the reasons for same.

    We have no choice but to find alternative energy sources. We cannot afford to continue a fossil-fuel-based economy, both in terms of pollution, and geopolitically.

    I just read an article where the US Navy has been working up what it will cost to ensure that the Norfolk Naval Station will be able to continue through the end of the century, factoring in the rising of the seas, and the need to make facilities able to withstand more powerful storms. The costs will run into the hundreds of billions. I know there are science-deniers out there, and I know that climate will change whether we contribute or not. I also know that every other major change in climate history took millions of years, not fewer than 100. And the US Navy seems to believe that there will be serious consequences to continuing a fossil-fuel-based society.

    So I will restate for the record: regardless of reason, if we can find a way to go greener, I’m for it. And, as with all technology, there will be false starts along the way.

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    Enoki  over 10 years ago

    Sure Bill Gates could spend all his money in nothing flat! All he has to do is start acting like a politician and the government!

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    I Play One On TV  over 10 years ago

    I am unfamiliar with your references of Little Ice Age, and the freezing of the Thames. Sorry. I know that the Atlantic Ocean froze out about 100 yards in the early 20th Century off Virginia Beach, but isolated incidents are not the same as climate change, to my knowledge.

    Although there are always shysters, the researchers I know do their research with the scientific method, and do not tailor their results to match pre-determined conclusions. Your experience may be different.

    I would love to see private industry do this. If it does, it will not be American private industry; are you willing to allow other countries to once again outmaneuver us for technology?

    Do you think that transistors, integrated circuits, and fuel cells would have been developed as quickly without NASA’s cash infusions?

    Trusting the energy companies, which are about the only private enterprise with the wherewithal to fund energy R&D, to come up with alternative energy sources is about as valuable as trusting OJ Simpson to spend the rest of his life “looking for the real killers”. And the energy companies are awash in government tax breaks and subsidies.

    After 30+ years of being a doctor, after 10 years in the same town gaining a reputation, when I realized that the practice I had joined was toxic enough to put my license in jeopardy, I went out on my own. Finding a bank willing to allow me a business line of credit was next to impossible, and I provide a service that people demonstrably need and want TODAY. How well will a start-up solar-panel company be able to absorb initial costs and marketplace inertia and the wait for the technology to be accepted on a large scale, allowing for reasonable prices to the public, if there is no available investment capital?

    While I agree that government loans should be non-guaranteed, and that there should be some responsibility for default, I cannot agree that if we just give rich people tax credits those industries will magically appear.

    I also believe that if the feds diverted the same number of billions to alternative energy companies that it presently does to the oil companies, we’d be seeing wind, solar, and wave energy taking over in a big hurry.

    I agree the game needs to be changed, but we can’t change the game with the same old rules.

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    Dtroutma  over 10 years ago

    I didn’t realize ConAgra and Monsanto, et al, were charities.

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