Vice President Biden was at it again today.
He’s been out stumping for a whole host of Democrat candidates. Today, while spreading propaganda for Democrat Tim Bishop, Biden told the audience:
“Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive,”
Biden has proven himself to be the Master of Gaffe. Combine that with his ability to speak completely ignorant of facts of any kind and in a way, he’s become boring. I mean, gaffes are funny when you know that the person know better than the words that just came out of their mouth. In Biden’s case, I no longer believe that any of his verbal gaffes are unintentional. I’m more inclined to believe that Biden is willfully ignorant of the facts of the world around him.
When read the above quote, my initial reaction was to put up a post describing how Biden’s comment was typical of leftists who think the world can’t accomplish anything without Mama Government telling it to. I’d then follow that with a list of inventions that prove Biden ignorant. Instead, I think a two word answer will suffice to respond to Biden:
Wite-out also works.
And Ms. Nesmith Graham was also the mother of Mike Nesmith, of “The Monkeys” fame. LOL
Yes Ma’am, I knew that and it was one of the reasons I chose this great American invention!
I notice that he left out the 18th Century which was when we rebelled against oppressive government and declared our independence and ratified the Constitution. Where’s his list? The New Deal has brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and he wants to add more to the debt. Right, Joe.
As I look back on some great ideas that have shaped the world, the automobile, the airplane, electricity, telephone, radio, television, computers and cell phones, these were all initiated by entrepreneurial visionaries. In fact, government took many of these advancements and figured out how to use this technology for military purposes. I’m not sure what context he is referring to in his comments, but if I had to stretch, I might concede to him the Space Program and the Internet, but even still, the advancements that came from these ideas were fueled by opportunistic innovators, not big government. Actually both of these big ideas are truly rooted in our Defense departments concern during the Cold War of maintaining military superiority and our ability to defend ourselves. The Space Program, that Kennedy turned a public relations juggernaut, was positioned as a race to the Moon and tapping into our competitive nature for America to be first. The real objective was to maintain military dominance in the air. Same holds true for the Internet, with the advent of transcontinental capable nuclear war heads, large metropolitan cities could be destroyed in a flash and with that our telecommunications network obliterated and our ability to communicate severely threatened. In the early 60’s the Defense department went to MIT engineers and asked for a redundant network (i.e. spider web) not located in major metro areas (i.e. universities) as a go to system if our telecommunications network were ever crippled. If I take exception with any of Biden’s comments, I think his use of the word “visionary” is over reaching at best to describe governments involvement. While our progress as a civilization was accelerated with the advent of the Space Program and the Internet, the innovative technologies and applications we enjoy today are the by product of innovative, individual, industrious capitalists. So to Joe and big government, I proudly give a tip of the cap, for without them, I would have had a life without Tang.