Recent brief comment from Brian Brady, arch-conservative Chairman of the San Diego GOP Central Committee, regarding my post of 1/19/12, What $6 Million Will Buy, in which I advocated for government investment in emerging technologies, despite the failure of Solyndra:
By what authority, does the government have the right, to invest our money in ANY business/industry?
Buster's rather longer response:
I smell TEA!
Brian, you're no more of a constitutional scholar than I am, but that doesn't prevent you from being an "originalist" who believes the document is Holy Writ, its words frozen in time, never to be reconsidered or "interpreted" (unless by Antonin Scalia).
What I know about our Constitution is that it permits the Congress to regulate business and commerce, and grants it the power to tax and spend.
Within that framework, over our history the U.S. government has provided financial support instrumental in the development of public universities, railroads, aviation, agriculture, and the internet, to name but a few.
A failure at Solyndra should not deter the government from investing in similar solar technologies and in other energy alternatives.
And work on that punctuation. In a very short sentence, you have two commas too many!
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