"Government Motors" returns to top of world's auto sales

No, you don't. You pay the bill through innovation and exploitation of resources. Shuffling money around is nice for the recipients, but it doesn't grow our national wealth in any sense of the word.

 

Innovation like electric cars?

 

Some day somebody will invent one that's affordable and worth owning.

 

And the first computer was not an Ipad.

 

I know. That's my point.

 

ENIAC was developed by the War Department.

 

The electric car is not an innovation. Andrew Carnegie owned an electric car over 100 years ago.

 

And they weren't marketed to consumers either.

 

Electric cars would stave off the economic losses that will pile up with the end of fossil fuels, whenever that comes, but I'm not sure I'd say they are the sorts of innovations that cause economic growth.

 

Not at the moment anyway. Unless you're only interested in growing the economy of the guys getting our tax money to subsidize putting out shitty cars.

 

Yeah, really stupid move trying to take technology developed by the military and market it to the public.

I guess you would rather GM keep rolling out Caprice Classics.