Comments on: Searching for a McCain Tech Policy Supporter

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:03:57 +0000

Determining sources of funding and interest by the federal government _is_ industrial policy, of which Mussolini would have approved wholeheartedly.

It's bad enough that the feds are now seeking equity in banks, and what next, the Detroit automakers and other key or favored concerns? Even Ralph Nader could not have actually hoped to "progress" [sic] that far.

Arrgh.

By: jstuart1031

jstuart1031 — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:18:14 +0000

I don't agree that it's silly – it's an infrastructure issue as well as just a “tech” issue. And, considering that more than a couple Lake Erie-area economies are trying to reposition themselves as Green Tech or Tourism hotspots, the focus on tech issues in the next government will help determine sources of funding and interest.

Thanks to BBQ for the expanded scorecard – didn't even think about the H1B visa issue, and interested to see what the candidates' positions are.

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:37:16 +0000

It's silly to even conceive of a “tech” official in the federal government, much less at a Cabinet level (siller, in fact, than any Department of the Environment, headed no doubt by Gore).

What's next, feel-good government spending on alternative energy in the name of tech, politically favored alternatives, that is, and “evolution” into blatant high-tech industial policy (Mussolini in the 2000s rather than the 1930s)? My God….

By: BBQ

BBQ — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:05:47 +0000

That scorecard isn't the total scores that just one of the five issues (Broadband).

Broadband
McCain: D
Obama: B

H1B Visas
McCain: B+
Obama: C

Green Tech
McCain: B
Obama: A

Net Neutrality
McCain: D
Obama: A

Spectrum
McCain: B
Obama: B

They never give a total score but if you average those out it's.

McCain: C
Obama: B