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Foggyhill

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2. Those climate change spending are essentially R&D investment in the future,
Sun Nov 6, 2016, 04:25 AM
Nov 2016

So, Trump wants to make the US a backwater place dependent on others for Energy and
and not having any of the tech benefits of owning the intellectual property related to those future energy technologies.

In Trump's world, things like the Internet would not occur cause you know,
telephones are such great communication tools that you don't need anything else.
He'd have cut funding to DARPA on that internet thingy and given back a monopoly
to AT&T to screw people over with poor, overpriced phone service till the end of time...
Or until Europe or China saved us by selling us this shiny new tech and making all the money from it.

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