The Hill: China's surging innovation investments are a wake-up call to Congress

[Midnight Writer]

1. Innovation? We should own this.

If we can spend trillions on Reagan's Star Wars Missile Defense boondoggle, we can out-invest anybody in science and technology.

The whole problem is that the monied interests in the US are profiting handsomely from the old, outdated tech and are loath to replace it.

And in the USA, thems whats got the money call the shots. And thems whats got the most money are mainly old, greedy, selfish, rich people.

Money is speech, money is influence, money is power. We have concentrated our wealth and power into a small fraction of the population and monetary decisions tend to be based on selfishness rather than altruism or national interests or visions of a prosperous future for the country.