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When the country was created? You mean some dirt roads in the 1700's?
Dude, the roads are built by the government. The entire interstate system that any business relies upon was built by the government. The railroads would NEVER have been built without help from the government. Your understanding of basic american history is LAUGHABLE, which is why you cant post a SINGLE source to support your claims.
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Having experienced mistreatment at the hands of the British government, writers of the United States Constitution were careful to limit the powers of government and protect the rights of individuals. The primary purpose of federal government was to:
1. Defend the shores
2. Establish a system of currency
3. Deliver the mail
4. Protect individual rights
Consider Amendment X, the last in the Bill of Rights:
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Originally posted by Bone75
Originally posted by jude11
He does more than wash dishes.
He anticipates the needs of the bakers and knows what we need before we do sometimes.
If I finish cinnabuns and go for a smoke I come back and the mixer and hooks are cleaned, the table is washed and ready for biscuits. If I mix a batch of bread and need to wait on a customer, I come back and he's weighing the loaves for the pans.
So as a dishwasher, he's ok but as a right hand...invaluable.
And that's how we all keep our livelihoods.
Peace
So after writing this, do you still stand by your original statement?
Well I could use some help with my bakery but I don't see any politicians coming in to wash pots and pans for me.
Nope...I DO THAT.
Originally posted by poet1b
This thread belongs in the hoax bin. Obama is misquoted. Has anybody bothered to listen to the 40 minute speech? Putting these lies on ATS makes the site look bad.
Roads didn't help people get rich. If this was the case everyone would be rich.
A teacher someone met along the way didn't help someone get rich, or everyone who learned under that teacher would be rich.
What Obama is saying is because Zuckerberg drove on roads built by Governments, it's somehow a cause of Facebook's success.
Originally posted by deometer
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving..."
- Albert Einstein (from the essay The World as I See It)
Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by stanguilles7
When the country was created? You mean some dirt roads in the 1700's?
Dude, the roads are built by the government. The entire interstate system that any business relies upon was built by the government. The railroads would NEVER have been built without help from the government. Your understanding of basic american history is LAUGHABLE, which is why you cant post a SINGLE source to support your claims.
The interstate highway system began in 1956 under Eisenhower.
Are you saying no businesses or roads existed before the government came along and showed us the way in 56'?
That’s delusional. The original role of the federal government was not to build roads, help start businesses, pick winners and losers, redistribute wealth, provide healthcare, wipe your butt, or hold your hand throughout your entire life to make sure you never fail at anything.
Originally posted by MidnightTide
reply to post by stanguilles7
You may think I am laughable, but don't fret, I could care less about your opinion of me.....same goes for the rest of your kind.
edit on 15-7-2012 by MidnightTide because: (no reason given)
If you have ever taken any money from the goverment in any way shape or form, go give that back and tell them you support a fully capitalist state and don't want their damn money.
Originally posted by TsukiLunar
reply to post by Evolutionsend
If you have ever taken any money from the goverment in any way shape or form, go give that back and tell them you support a fully capitalist state and don't want their damn money.
Dont forget to enroll your kids in private schools as well!
Originally posted by stanguilles7
Originally posted by MidnightTide
reply to post by stanguilles7
You may think I am laughable, but don't fret, I could care less about your opinion of me.....same goes for the rest of your kind.
edit on 15-7-2012 by MidnightTide because: (no reason given)
Be that as it may, you claim that all the roads in the USA are built by private companies is not true.
Alas, you dont seem capable of factual debate.
Private turnpikes were business corporations that built and maintained a road for the right to collect fees from travelers.2 Accounts of the nineteenth-century transportation revolution often treat turnpikes as merely a prelude to more important improvements such as canals and railroads. Turnpikes, however, left important social and political imprints on the communities that debated and supported them. Although turnpikes rarely paid dividends or other forms of direct profit, they nevertheless attracted enough capital to expand both the coverage and quality of the U. S. road system. Turnpikes demonstrated how nineteenth-century Americans integrated elements of the modern corporation – with its emphasis on profit-taking residual claimants – with non-pecuniary motivations such as use and esteem.
Private road building came and went in waves throughout the nineteenth century and across the country, with between 2,500 and 3,200 companies successfully financing, building, and operating their toll road.
or Americans looking for better connections to markets, the poor state of the road system was a major problem. In 1790, a viable steamboat had not yet been built, canal construction was hard to finance and limited in scope, and the first American railroad would not be completed for another forty years. Better transportation meant, above all, better highways. State and local governments, however, had small bureaucracies and limited budgets which prevented a substantial public sector response. Turnpikes, in essence, were organizational innovations borne out of necessity – "the states admitted that they were unequal to the task and enlisted the aid of private enterprise"
Originally posted by MidnightTide
As for the railroads, they were built by private business. Government may have helped subsidized some, but they never owned them.