The Lesser Known Eisenhower Quote

If the chemical companies would stop production for a few months, millions of Americans who are kept alive solely due to the development of sale of many drugs would drop dead.

I think that is a great plan .... better than a union strike in fact.

The government is messing with John Galt here.

And the grants only go to those " scientists " who can help the politician's re-election. All the rest of us should note how ideologically directed " scientific research " made the Soviet Union a backwater in genetic research.

Scientists working for government have evolved into an entirely different species than scientists working for private industry. Government grant harvesting scientists (like other bureaucrats) exist solely to increase their influence and their chances to procure future grants - the science will always be tweaked to conform to the politics. Also, like politicians, they are not bound by irksome realities like economics, business impacts or accountability.

Regulatory capture.
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The EPA now has a budget allocation that Funds people to sue the EPA into expanding its coverage by increasing regulations.

A perfect way to expand government and employ more scientists.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching which unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.
Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavour to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth of aggregated in a few hands and the republic destroyed
- Abraham Lincoln (21st November 1864)

Domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money, versus, public policy itself becoming the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

What we have now is both factions working in concert: a perfect symbiosis. So, the two concepts are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Re-reading this is like reading a conservative primer. An embodiment of conservative thinking, in the older sense of the word. Seek balance, seek to do no harm, preserve your society in a state that works, preserve human liberty.

But this paragraph caught my eye in light of recent going-on in the US.

"Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we-you and I, and our government-must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow"

Obama should stop reading books on Reagan,,,as much as I loved the guy, and he would do better to understand what Ike bequeathed to his generation, as Baby O had just beeen born.

That O has ignored this problem for a long time and done enough of his own actions to summon the "insolvent phantom" should give him pause. But he isnt a self reflective kind of guy. Other than the reflection in the mirror.

its the formula for the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and the Military Industrial Complex.

A society captive of a scientific-technological elite would be a paradise on earth. It would be the most advanced place in the world.

It is really a shame that politicians have so much power today. Scientists are superior to politicians in every aspect.

No wonder Harper has declared war on science.

Wondering if Eisenhower read "Atlas Shrugged", timing is right; reference Abe Froman @ 10:23 Cheers;

"A society captive of a scientific-technological elite would be a paradise on earth. It would be the most advanced place in the world."

''The syringe belongs in the hand of a physician.'' A syringe was the exception; it was usually a matter of opening a gas cock.

T HROUGHOUT THE ''euthanasia'' project, senior doctors served as consultants and experts, made policy and rendered decisions. Younger doctors did most of the killing.

At Brandenburg, one of the killing centers, for example, Dr. Irmfried Eberl was 29 years old when he learned to operate the gassing mechanism. The man later assigned to assist him, Dr. Aquilin Ullrich, was only 26.

In a 1961 investigation of the T4 program, Ullrich testified that his duties barely required any medical knowledge. He and Eberl (who later became the commandant of Treblinka, the only doctor actually to head a death camp) did no more than make a ''superficial inspection'' of the naked patients in the gas chamber's anteroom. He subsequently realized that ''the presence of the physician at that moment was used to calm the mentally ill and camouflage the killing process.''
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/21/magazine/german-doctors-and-the-final-solution.html?pagewanted=1

No wonder Harper has declared war on science.
~quebecois NDPiste

It's a shame that you have declared war on truth and sanity.

qndp:

You are rapidly becoming our foremost moron.

The so-called "scientific-technologist" elite is a bunch of credentialed, self-selecting people dependent on government for funding, who have killed millions (elimination of DDT in Africa, for example, meaning malaria for people is still a real threat, as opposed to a few thousand sparrows), and are about to sacrifice billions of dollars on the bogus AGW hype.

Real scientists and engineers work on real projects that actually make life better for people. And they make a living doing so, unlike these parasites who live off our production and do everything they can to stop it.

Like all leftists, you worship death. Dr. Fruitfly thinks we should only have 1 billion people on the planet - that would be a bigger genocide than all others combined. Al Gore, the flaming hypocrite, burns 10,000 kWh a month at his home, while telling the rest of the world we should do with less. Leftists are in favour of abortion, euthanasia, and sterilization. Death, death, and more death. If you had the intellectual honesty to admit that's your goal, I'd have no problem with you; I'd oppose you, but I believe in freedom of thought. It's your blatant hypocrisy that sickens me.

A society captive of a scientific-technological elite would be a paradise on earth. It would be the most advanced place in the world...

Posted by: quebecois NDPiste at July 15, 2011 12:35 PM

Yeah. I think of that every time I drive under or over a Quebec bridge...

On the other hand:
http://www.fcpp.org/publication.php/3825

G's F,

Government scientists, politicians, progressive journalists ... kind of a tough choice to decide which to rank #1, #2, #3 on the least trustworthy scale, don't you think?

Another sentiment unlikely to be ventured today --

//In this final relationship, the Congress and the Administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well, to serve the national good rather than mere partisanship, and so have assured that the business of the Nation should go forward. So, my official relationship with the Congress ends in a feeling, on my part, of gratitude that we have been able to do so much together.//

That's just what Sen. John Kerry and Rep. Jim Moran have in mind.

http://junkscience.com/2011/07/12/what-makes-a-scientist-congressional-democrats-offer-a-shocking-answer/

I,m just waiting for the day Obama starts yapping about Cold Fusion as our savior.
The Elitists now hold the reins of science diected towards socialist dogam. Reality need not apply.

Jamie MacMaster @ 2:41 p.m.: Winner!