Biden: Every great idea needed govt. "vision"

[Splashdown]

Joe Biden is the best player for our side.

“Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive,” he said. “In the middle of the Civil War you had a guy named Lincoln paying people $16,000 for every 40 miles of track they laid across the continental United States. … No private enterprise would have done that for another 35 years.”

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Joe's AWESOME!!!!!



Psssst. Nobody tell him about every major inventor of the 20th-21st century, from Edison to Jobs....

[Wretched Excess]

the fact that he had to go back 150 years for his example demonstrates just how incredibly retarded that comment is.  just in terms of historical knowledge, it is staggeringly ignorant.  and I don't think that you could find a more revealing statement of the secret perversities that lurk in the shadows of the liberal mind;  that government is the source of all social beneficence.  riiiight.    good luck with that.

that may be the absolute dumbest thing that I have ever heard an elected official say.  it's unsurprising that it came from biden.

[Ralph Wiggum]

that may be the absolute dumbest thing that I have ever heard an elected official say.  it's unsurprising that it came from biden.

The problem is that there are lots of dolts out there who think what he said is the absolute truth.

[Wretched Excess]

I've given this a bit of thought.  off the top of my head, here is a quick list of government accomplishments that the free market couldn't have done better or sooner:

1) free the slaves
2) win the cold war
3) defeat the nazis

(do you sense the pattern here?)

[thundley4]

I've given this a bit of thought.  off the top of my head, here is a quick list of government accomplishments that the free market couldn't have done better or sooner:

1) free the slaves
2) win the cold war
3) defeat the nazis

(do you sense the pattern here?)

Make war, not peace?

[Karin]

It was a breathtakingly ignorant thing to say, wasn't it?  When I heard it, I sighed, rolled my eyes, and face-palmed.  I can't take much more of these dolts. 

[Wretched Excess]

Make war, not peace?

I think the comparison that I was trying to create was scale; the sheer planetary scope of defeating communism and ending slavery, versus the pinheaded, pencil necked pettiness of hijacking my health insurance.  for the "smart kids", these liberals sure do think small.   but I like the way you think.

[DumbAss Tanker]

The decision to pay incentives and give away vast sections of land to build the Transcontinental Railroad was not made to provide jobs or just because the Government thought it'd be cool to have one, it was a strategic matter of moving California gold, Western cattle, and Great Plains wheat as well as getting free transportation for all Government purposes (That last one eventually ended).  You'll notice the Government couldn't build that railway itself, but paid handsomely for two corporations who could build it from each end to do so.

And Joe Biden wouldn't know a good idea if it swam up to him and bit his leg off.

[true_blood]

The "bumbler" is at it again I see. The gubberment is the "answer", huh Joe?!? You FAIL!

[Chris_]

The "bumbler" is at it again I see. The gubberment is the "answer", huh Joe?!? You FAIL!

What other answer can you expect from someone who hasn't had any other job for thirty five years?