Republican National Convention Theme: We Built This!

Jefferson Starship...

Thank you, Federal/State/Local Government, for:

* the airports, controllers, FAA, and safety rules that ensured all of the convention-goers get there safely, and back home.
* the highway systems that are used by the transportation, and supply-delivery companies to transport the guests, and the food, supplies to the venue
* the food-safety regulations that ensures the people eating the food don't get sick
* the medical, fire, police safety personnel that will be there to ensure the safety
* business licensing requirements by the local government that ensure that the vendors are selling properly licensed goods, and stuff that isn't fake or dangerous
* the FCC rules/regs/airwaves that will be used to broadcast the event to the rest of the nation
* etc., etc., etc.

We're all so glad that you were able to do it "all by yourselves"....

How did the feds get their money? From Republican taxpayers and GOP citizens buying government debt. Only makes sense to get a little back.

Thanks for the irrelevant, incorrect and dumb-sh*t answer... Up to your usual standard.

Keep trying, Snarky

Democracy4Sale wrote: Thanks for the irrelevant, incorrect and dumb-sh*t answer... Up to your usual standard.

Keep trying, Snarky

So where did the money come from brainstem? A printing press?

Democracy4Sale wrote: Thanks for the irrelevant, incorrect and dumb-sh*t answer... Up to your usual standard.

Keep trying, Snarky

Not only do the Dems want to increase taxes, they don't think the Republicans should be allowed to use any of what they take.

The Republicans aren't trying to eliminate goverment, just cut it back!!!!!! Or if you actually looked at the Republican tax plans, they were just trying to reduce the rate of spending, not actually cut goverment's size. LJ you really need to look beyond your talking points. Find where the Republicans have ever reduced the size of goverment? You can't find it, can you? (Probably because the HuffPo doesn't have it bookmarked for you.)

Just like Obama didn't really mean to say entrepenuers didn't build their companies, Republicans want to say the key factor creating new business wasn't some road built by a private contractor financed by the goverment, but that the owners were the most important part!

Russia and Cuba had plenty of infrastructure built by goverment and the result? A stagnant, failed, economy. They forgot to reward the risk takers. (In fact they jailed and killed the capitalists.) And Obama wants to deny the effect of America's risk takers.

None of which has anything to do with the OP...

Thank you, Federal/State/Local Government, for:

* the airports, controllers, FAA, and safety rules that ensured all of the convention-goers get there safely, and back home.
* the highway systems that are used by the transportation, and supply-delivery companies to transport the guests, and the food, supplies to the venue
* the food-safety regulations that ensures the people eating the food don't get sick
* the medical, fire, police safety personnel that will be there to ensure the safety
* business licensing requirements by the local government that ensure that the vendors are selling properly licensed goods, and stuff that isn't fake or dangerous
* the FCC rules/regs/airwaves that will be used to broadcast the event to the rest of the nation
* etc., etc., etc.

We're all so glad that you were able to do it "all by yourselves"....

Thanks for playing....

Democracy4Sale wrote: None of which has anything to do with the OP...

Thank you, Federal/State/Local Government, for:

* the airports, controllers, FAA, and safety rules that ensured all of the convention-goers get there safely, and back home.
* the highway systems that are used by the transportation, and supply-delivery companies to transport the guests, and the food, supplies to the venue
* the food-safety regulations that ensures the people eating the food don't get sick
* the medical, fire, police safety personnel that will be there to ensure the safety
* business licensing requirements by the local government that ensure that the vendors are selling properly licensed goods, and stuff that isn't fake or dangerous
* the FCC rules/regs/airwaves that will be used to broadcast the event to the rest of the nation
* etc., etc., etc.

We're all so glad that you were able to do it "all by yourselves"....

Thanks for playing....

The Soviet Union had all that and more. How did that work out? It didn't, did it.

And that is the greatest difference between collectivists and the rest of us. Collectivists think that everything starts with government rather than the individual citizens. The reality of the situation is that all of these things the "government has done" for us is a response to what the citizens have built. Henry Ford didn't build the Model T so that the roads the government built would have some use. The FAA exists because someone started a company that builds aircraft capable of transporting lots of passengers and someone else built a company to purchase that aircraft and transport people in it. In short, government didn't create the commerce it is regulating. the citizens of the States are the ones who built the commerce. The citizens of the States are the ones who provided the money, the labor and the equipment to build the roads, the bridges, the airports, the convention centers, the weather radar dishes, the police cruisers, the fire trucks and pay the personnel which operate them - government manages the process.

The FDA doesn't keep the food supply safe. If it did we wouldn't have had people poisoned with listeria when they ate a cantaloupe (happened again recently with ones grown in Indiana and North Carolina). What the FDA does do is regulate, or manage, the process so that when someone does get poisoned, where what poisoned them came from can be determined and the tainted product removed from sale so that fewer are poisoned.

Here again, government doesn't keep you safe, it simply can't do that. If a mechanic doesn't do their job correctly, the existence of the FAA won't keep the plane from falling out of the sky. If Boeing fails to spot a design flaw in their aircraft, having an FAA won't stop the wings from falling off halfway between New York and LA.

In short - the government, whether federal, State or local, didn't build anything of what exists. The roads exist because those who make, grow and consume products have decided that they wanted a more efficient means than what existed previously. I certainly benefit from the existence of those roads, but it is the money that I pay in taxes which both funds their construction and their maintenance. If the roads were not public entities, they would be private ones and instead of paying taxes on the fuel I purchase I would be paying tolls when I desired to use the roads. The roads do not exist because of government. The airports do not exist because of government. Both of these would exist even in the absence of a government as a result of what individual citizens have created and built. What the government does is manage where they are built and the standards to which they are built. The government regulates, it does not create.