December 2009

  • Climate Change, Copenhagen and Jobs

    By ecoscott on 12/20/09 6:29pm
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    Now that the Copenhagen summit is done and everyone is heading back home to figure out what to do with it, everyone is publishing articles about just that- what they think of the deal and what they are going to do about it/ with it.

    I read a great one for about four sentences that said the Copenhagen agreement meant essentially nothing to entrepreneurs- as in there are no clear things like targets or markets to walk away with and use as goals or building blocks. I read a great interview with the New York Times’ Thomas Freidman where he says what Obama should have done is told China that the U.S. would bury them in clean tech and essentially start an arms race- style international battle for clean tech supremacy. Great idea- Obama’s not much of a battle starter, though. He’s more on the diplomatic side, trying to keep everyone on ok terms with each other.

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  • Health Care has 60

    By ecoscott on 12/20/09 5:14pm
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    Looking good in there!Looking good in there!As we come up toward the Christmas break, the senate is butting up against the deadline that President Obama wants them to finish the bill by. We all know they need the 60 votes, and we all know that somebody is being a holdout. The most recent holdout has been Senator Ben Nelson from Nebraska.

    I was listening to Friday’s Morning Edition on NPR this morning, which threw the timing off a little for me as it’s Sunday morning, but on the program, Ben Nelson was saying that he didn’t think there was much of anything that anyone could say to change his mind and get him to sign on to the health care reform bill before the Christmas recess. He said that the language around abortion wasn’t strong enough, and that that was only the tip of the iceberg about his issues and reservations about the bill.

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  • Why the Senate SHOULD rush to pass the healthcare bill before Christmas.

    By ecoscott on 12/18/09 8:57pm
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    Where it's all happening...Where it's all happening...What? Now all of the sudden it’s a race to the finish? Now we are supposed to listen to the Senate democrats and believe that they are actually trying to pass the healthcare bill before the Holiday recess? Well, yes. And here’s why I think it’s a good thing:

    1.    It’s about time. The last deadline that the senate was racing against was the one that Obama suggested and that was… August. So, for the last 4 months they have essentially worked on one piece of legislation, and yeah, it’s not at all out of the box thinking or pressuring anyone about anything to think about passing it… sometime… this… year…

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