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Reaction(s) to failures of American start-ups is not what you so callously term “getting giddy”. The reaction(s) merely emphasize the ineptness of the current administration and its radical czars to allow the free market system to determine effective solutions to society’s needs.

This is a false premise for starting a conversation. The answer to your pseudo-question is: “we don’t.” We might ask you in return why you need to label everyone, but that would get us farther off-topic than you have already taken it. The point of the article is that Obama “helping” a company is the kiss of death. You are the one who injected grade-school debating tactics into the discussion. I mean this with all due respect, but please don’t try to insult people as your opening move. No one will take you seriously (unless that is what you are trying to do to this discussion).

There is no joy from conservatives when start ups fail. Many of us, I included, have started our own business and only when one has been down that road can one truly understand the risk and difficulty associated with the American start up small and large. The resentment stems from government selecting one or a group of businesses for success. In that scenario government helps clear the playing field of obstacles like lack of seed money or regulation waivers or tax breaks others do not get. If the start up has such potential but cannot get traction or the regulations so difficult to reduce the viability of the start up then one could look for what is it that is in the way of this success, all to often it is government itself that creates the obstacle then they ride in to a start up offering help. That is not help, it is the bully in the school yard thinks you are cool and lines up with you. It may well be that the concept is viable but the current management/owner is a dolt, in which case no amount of investment will save the start up. It may be that the government regulations drain away needed capital and time resources to comply. If the latter is the case then those issues need to be removed from all businesses operating in that arena, (that is how you get lobbyists). That is the issue with conservatives. We resent government sticking its nose into the business arena to support or malign business. We look at those who apply to the government for help as weak either in ideas or courage of their own conviction, kind of like lingerie football. Sorry but that is not football and having the tax payer covering your bets is not business. Worse yet when government covers the bet they do so with my grand childs money. Not their own. So we are not giddy we are vindicated, but my guess is that you would not know of what I speak..

You have seriously misunderstood the comments that have been made about failed companies. We are not cheering, we are apalled, disgusted, and outraged that tax dollars were wasted in this way. Every week there seems to be another one and the Obama Administration just keeps doing it over and over again. We just want to stop the bleeding and get back to doing business the responsible way.

I remember when a business owner really didn’t want to go the SBA for a loan because they were harder to deal with than the bank, and even if you had to declare bamkruptcy, you couldn’t write-off the loan. The rules have changed, and NOT for the better.

with such nonsense because conservatives celebrate all private enterprises but we frown on wasting taxpayer dollars on risky investments. Private industry including banks, brokerages and Venture Capital firms are better suited to evaluate new businesses than any politican. Your question was dumb and so obvious that its no wonder people think you are a liberal.

No one is cheering, you’d know that if you stopped drawing inferences from other peoples words…….that’s your problem. You translate what conservatives say into thoughts you have then you attack the messenger with nonsense.

and the failure clearly proves Gov’t cannot pick winners and losers, it becomes an object of justified derision. Especially when they do it with our money, lose it for many*unforeseen* { to them} reasons and do not have a Constitutional mandate to do so.
If the start-up uses private dollars , Se La Vie.

Just what part if New York are you from? Obviously, nowhere near Wall Street or an Economics school of any repute.
I suggest “Economics in One Lesson “, for the uninitiated rube.

{Poker’s not your Game,EHH?}

It has been around for at least 7 decades.

No, I don’t have my own buisness. In fact, im currently in grad school working towards a PhD in Computational Physics. Booooo academia, right? (I’d actually like to start my own software startup one day, but that’s besides the point)

But I’ve seen that the investments the government has made in science and emerging technologies, most notably GPS, the Internet, and even the iPhones Siri (yes, that was DARPA project http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/siri-darpa-iphone/), and they’ve all turned out to be huge industrial boons. That is why I personally think it’s dangerous for the government to stop making these risky investments.