Jack

Have you read Orwell?

In “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, who was the author of “Goldstein’s Book”?

Jack

I say that the guy who builds a better mousetrap, or develops the next “must-have” software, or builds a succesful business is a very far cry from John D. Rockefeller and the Rockefellers who descended from him.

My point is that steveg had it exactly right.

Without media patronage, the Progressives, (as they style themselves), would be akin to what John Birch Society members are today perceived as…a kooky fringe of peculiar cranks.

Who coughs up the money that makes the media “go”?

Business, specifically, BIG Institutional Business…through their advertising dollars.

It therefore follows that Business, by advertising on MSM outlets, is endorsing, (in the way that REALLY counts), the initiatives that the MSM is biased towards.

The entire Liberal menu, as it is spun and pitched by media and academia, is underwritten, either directly or indirectly by Big Business.

There’s something we should remember about Rockefeller, Carnegie, DuPont and their ilk…those gentlemen were only for Free Markets insofar as it left them Free to exterminate their competitors and create monopolized captive markets.

They wanted government off of THEIR backs, but were perfectly happy to have Government lay a beat-down on their competitors…look what Edison tried doing to Westinghouse.

Both Jack and G Alston seem have actually thought a lot about the issues and have formed an intelligent opinion.

And then you get BigDave hooting about kicking all the RINOS out of the party.

Then you get “A Thinking” Person calling Obama “TeleBama” in a move that the gossip pages might use about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Note to BigDave and ATP:

Cheering the shrinking of your party is counter-productive.

And calling people names is juvenile.

That is the most telling comment of all. Independent thinking is prized until it is exhibited by a republican, who is then screeched at and called names (RINO!!!) until he decides to switch affiliations.

Note that the left has a far left greenie faction and yet the left rank and file isn’t told to march to that tune or else. (Contrast that to the far right social conservatives who insist that it’s their way or the highway.) It seems on the face of it that the left is a great deal more open to independent thinking.

You’re dreaming.

What kicks things along is technical progress, and this is almost invariably funded by government (typically DoD.) Some of this progress filters into the civilian world. Computers were created to help solve ballistics problems; computer chips were needed to guide ICBMs, GPS was needed to position troops, the internet was a failsafe communications backbone, and so on. Every one of these things that drive the modern economy was kick-started with massive government funding.

Had the “fiscal conservative” approach been taken since WWII we’d just now be able to take our cool new AM transistor radios outside with us on battery power and the punch button princess phone would appear by 2030. I for one am quite happy that a fiscal conservative approach has never been taken.

Instead, we have the conveniences of modern life because a fiscally conservative approach was REJECTED, and rightfully so. Perhaps you should google “Strategy of Technology” for your education at this point. It was written by Reagan’s SDI advisors.