The people I know on corporate boards won’t touch an Obama corporate hand out for R&D or anything else for that matter with a ten foot pole. That corporate R&D “investment from our government” any dimwit by now should know, means a loss of control to the Obamanations.

Obama, Geithner and Holder have poisoned the well of the public trust, and none of their joint public-private sector partnerships, not TARP, not PPIP or R&D grants, will work because of their duplicity.

To better guides our feeble minds our exalted Savior and annointed One has just appointed a special assistent to the President, Susan Crawford, for the internet. She has some neat ideas on how to nationalize, oops, my bad, facilitate the internet:

“Crawford stressed that the stimulus money is a down payment on future government investments in the Internet. “We should do a better job as a nation of making sure fast, affordable broadband is as ubiquitous as electricity, water, snail mail or any other public utility,” she said. Most of the time when I talk about the need to treat internet access like a utility, I get amused smiles “.

The internet; a public utility to be regulated and controlled.