Correct. And I would add:

It wasn't long ago that Obama heralded the glorious "privatization of Space". He handed out big money to all his friends. There was big fan fare about the dawn of a new era. Private companies were going to replace those nasty rooskies charging us an arm and a leg to get into space, remember?

What happened? The new NASA budget shifts money into... wait for it... A way to get astronauts to the Space Station.

But I am sure the bribes were repaid handsomely, and a nice chunk of taxpayer dollars found their way back to the Democratic Party coffers. Because at the end of the day, that is what this Administration and party truly excel at.

I said nothing of the kind. You don't seem to have very good reading comprehension.

I AM A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER. Therefore I think I am qualified to have an opinion.

Using a tool called "The Google" you can easily find out that small business creates the majority of the jobs in America.

Worshipped? Of course not! Punished? A very bad idea... We need to ENCOURAGE people to start businesses, otherwise we have no growth. And you're ideas about how business works... they are really strange.

Simple. People are generally risk averse. To start a business, you have to give up all your free time, work insane hours, and invest a substantial amount of your own money. The odds are, you will fail (99% of all small business startups fail in the first year)

People talk big talk, but very few people have the motivation to actually work this hard and take these risks.

Which is why people who take these kinds of risks, and create jobs for everyone else, should be rewarded, not punished. When you teach people that success is evil, you are doing great harm to society. Where will the next generation of risk takers come from?

Where do you get such foolish notions?

The way business actually works is you hire good people, treat them like gold, respect their families and beliefs, pay them well, give them good benefits... and they, in turn, share your values about customer service, treat the customers well, and grow the business. Screwing your employees and fucking over your customers is how you go broke, quickly.

It's a fantasy to think that someone large groups of people organized as "corporations" are, by default, evil, and large groups of people organized as "government" are benign. It is also a fantasy to believe that government will redistribute wealth equally. Throughout history, the exact opposite has been the case, each and every single time.

For your sake, I hope you are very young....

Thanks for agreeing with me Bob. But I don't think it has anything to do with a poorly optimized engine, or U.S. vehicles in general. The efficiency of the internal combustion engine these days is remarkable, and the ability to modify the programming to match different fuel types is anything but a compromise. What you have with an electronic engine is a programmable machine with impressive flexibility. You may not remember the days when you drove a car to high altitude and it barely ran...

On the bright side Americans are finally beginning to realize that Diesel is a better choice. I drove Diesel's for years until the ULSD mandate made them un-economical relative to gas. Diesel's have the compression you're looking for, of course.

The truth is that alcohol just doesn't have the same energy density in terms of btu/kg as does gasoline, so there's no way you're going to get anywhere the same mileage. So the consumer was sold a big bag of hype, under the assumption that they were all idiots, and couldn't calculate miles per gallon. And of course in the foolishness of governments, they mandated that a fixed amount of the stuff had to be produced every year, regardless of demand. So now the refiners, and the oil companies, are sitting on gallons and gallons of the stuff. Here in the Midwest once the subsidy expired I have not seen a single vehicle at the E85 pump. And down at the local refinery, they are building storage tanks. The result: biofuels will be set back years.

It's not that we shouldn't be working very hard to produce biofuels. It's that we are trusting the wrong people to do it. The government, particularly politicians, are too corruptible to be in charge of anything this important. Just my two cents...

Your absolutely correct, but you need to explain WHY the government is bankrupt, starting with unfunded liabilities. As the majority of young liberal arts educated posters here just don't have a clue about how economics actually works, and how years and years of quid pro quo pay to play deals eventually drains all the money out of the host.

I say, have 'em come and live in Detroit, Brush Park would be a fine address, after six months they will completely understand how we have legalized bribery and sanitized it.... And how we are quite literally killing the goose that lays the golden eggs...

Where, pray tell, do you think the money for this "free education, healthcare, roads, police, and judicial services" actually comes from?

One wonders if Obama is so petty that he is working doubly hard to make sure Shrillary looses. It sure seems that way. I think she would make a horrible President. Obama lies really well, Hillary not so much...

You've never actually tried to setup a corporation in another country, have you? How about one in the U.S.? It's not free by any means. Your whole premise about how one can setup this big shell game is hopelessly naive.

I know, I am a small business owner. Also known as a "job creator", and of course "the evil rich".

The idea that I should pay a tax on income, and then pay a tax when I invest that income, and then pay a tax when the investment earns income... Where do you get such foolish notions? If nobody invests, there is zero economic growth, zero. What you're idea results in is the old Soviet Union, where a very small group is fabulously wealthy and everyone else is a peasant.

The keyword is that this money is going to be used for "Infrastructure Projects" which is the same nonsense used to promote the "Stimulus" which at the end of the day was just a big giant payoff to all the Democratic Party constituencies.

The REAL story is this:

Faced with a fundraising shortfall going into 2016, the Democrats cooked up a grand scheme where they could take money away from evil corporations, thus pleasing the far left Marxist leaning base, funnel the money to loyal Union bosses, and make up for the shortfall.

This is how both parties actually work. The ideology and populist messaging is all complete nonsense, made to appeal to people's emotions so they don't do any actual rational thinking....

I thought Steve Jobs greatest vision was outsourcing as much as possible and building child slave labor camps to build the products. He's a real "progressive" that one.

Could it be the child labor camps they built in China to build the products? You know, the ones with workers as young as 14 years old, surrounded by high fences to keep the workers in, with some of the highest suicide rates of workers in China?

Could it be the rush to offshore, sending as many jobs into cheap labor markets as possible?

What you say? A San Francisco darling leftist does all those things in the name of profit? It's absolutely true.

Well that explains the corn shortages in South and Central America, where corn meal, or masa, became horribly expensive. About a month after the Ethanol mandates kicked in.

Do you live in the Midwest? Ever talked to an actual corn farmer? I doubt it.

Then why does my 2013 Flex Fuel Ethanol Optimized vehicle get such horrible mileage on E85?

Doing simple math "Cost of fuel per mile" E85 is a really stupid product to buy - before and after the subsidies. It's not a small price differential, it's a huge one.

And despite this, we will all be reading on comment boards for ever that those horrible oil company profits are why they need to be punished...

But we will hear no outrage at all about Apple's profits.

Why?

Because Apple is the darling of left (Amazing, given their factories in China)... Whereas the oil companies, why they give money to Rethugnicans, so they are evil beyond evil... So the next "progressive" that tells you how awesome APPLE is be sure and remind them that this means they love outsourcing, believe children should be exploited as slave labor, and that profit is absolutely grand.....