You know, I would say Incomplete…but what I would say is the steps that we have taken in saving the auto industry, in making sure that college is more affordable and investing in clean energy and science and technology and research, those are all the things that we are going to need to grow over the long term. — 2012

My Take – College is more affordable?  I guess all that talk about the education bubble I’ve been hearing is just defeatist propaganda perpetrated by the enemies of our glorious forward thinking leaders.  I’m sure that students and parents must be brimming with joy every time they get a letter from their educational institute advising them of a tuition hike that is several times more than the inflation rate.  But the President knows all about education.  He picks a great NCAA basketball tournament bracket, doesn’t he?

And yes, the auto industry has been saved, at least the part of it that couldn’t make it on its own in a competitive marketplace, assuming you don’t count Ford, Mercedes, Hyundai, Toyota, or Kia, all of which seem to be doing really well making cars in the United States without a penny of taxpayer money.  But hey, all those years of loyal service to the President’s party has to earn the UAW something, didn’t they?

And where would we be without all that investment in green energy that President Obama has brought down like rain on a fertile field.  I mean, just this morning, I couldn’t get out of my driveway without stopping to let columns of fuel efficient vehicles, powered by new advanced battery technology that was energized by clean, cheap solar panels bolted any flat surface and windmills that not only generated clean power, but also freshened the air and provided necessary avian carrion for our fragile coyote population.  Except that that didn’t happen, and more money than I or my children will make in our lifetimes might as well have been set on fire, because at least then it could have generated some heat to run a steam turbine and generate some actual electricity.

But you don’t make progress by being stingy with the public funds, now do you?  Unless, of course, you count the amazing amount of innovation that occurred in aviation in the 1920’s and 1930’s when the government wasn’t spending much money on airplanes.  Or maybe you can point to the early years of computer networking, which was indeed funded by DARPA.  But then, DARPAnet was pretty much a government and university only kind of thing for the better part of two decades, until someone figured out how to make some money from web pages, and then the Internet took off.

Yeah, those programs that the President has been so proud of have been really great for the economy and the country, haven’t they?  Four more years of this and we’ll be just where he wants us to be.