[extropy-chat] Good Morning Silicon Valley says GOP more pro-tech

[Mike Lorrey]

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/10049995.htm

Published: Friday, Oct. 29, 2004

Don't look for a technical knockout in this bout
By John Murrell

No matter where you've settled on this presidential election thing,
chances are your decision didn't come down to the candidates'
respective technology policies. Neither George Bush nor John Kerry has
given tech a prominent place in the campaign, and when it comes to
encouraging innovation, maintaining competitiveness, improving
education, providing broadband access and researching fuel cells, both
are pro, pro, pro, pro and pro. The differences, as you might expect,
are in the means to those ends: Both men's policies put much of the
responsibility on the private sector, but Kerry sees a greater role for
government than Bush. In a party vs. party comparison, Declan McCullagh
over at News.com has put together an admittedly arbitrary but
interesting scorecard showing that the friends of tech on Capitol Hill
are primarily Republican, based on a selection of key votes over the
years. 

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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