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Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by The Old American
You do realize he was talking about bridges and roads....
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet."
Originally posted by Johnathanandheather
reply to post by The Old American
Sounds like a big stereo type. What do you define as welfare? Because
in my state the most people get are food stamps unless they are disabled, kids, elderly.
They don't just say hey have cash if you don't want to work. And the people who get cash
I think it's 200 dollars a
Mo unless they are on state based disability or federal.
It's not enough for a person to live on.
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by The Old American
You do realize he was talking about bridges and roads....
Originally posted by flashtrum
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by The Old American
You do realize he was talking about bridges and roads....
Nope. He said if you own or built a business, someone else made that possible for you. That's what he said, and he hasn't backed away from it. Hope you still have a job after you vote for him and he wins....
Originally posted by FractalChaos13242017
What I'm getting at... is, Who wants to buy me a pack of cigarettes?
Nobody!
Originally posted by The Old American
Collectivists: Not doing anything on their own since...ever.
You can only go so far with the butterfly effect until it gets ridiculous.
/TOA
Originally posted by glasshouse
reply to post by milominderbinder
I guess I missed the part where he suggested nobody should pay any taxes?
I agree that businesses benefit from infrastructure but without revenue created by businesses and the people they employ the government as we know it would not function.
Considering business doesn't rely solely on revenue produced by the government, I would propose that business is more capable of existing without government instead the other way around
edit on 07/27/12 by glasshouse because: (no reason given)