Free Ringtone "You didn't build that!"

It's still true... Every single bozo the GOP trotted out to say "I built that" turns out to have gotten government loans, government assistance, government contracts, still uses government roads to transport their goods, public education trained their employees...

Spin, Spin, Spin...

And the refrain continues from the collectivists. The people didn't build the government, the goveernment built the people. We've been paying fuel taxes on every gallon of fuel purchased for 60 years now to pay for the interstate highway system (and even more for "deficit" reduction than repayment for half that period) and yet some still insist that they were built by the government. The more the federal government involves itself in our schools the more expensive and ineffectual they have become, yet we are supposed to understand this is a benefit to these United States which promotes our general welfare.

Someday, hopefully soon, they will come to understand that commerce builds things. That the growth of commerce, not the growth of government, is responsible for what we now hold so dear. That government does not build, it consumes what others build. That it is government that has placed so many roadblocks in our path that the next Henry Ford has little, if any, chance at securing the capital to build the next great automobile from a dream into reality. At one point in time we had scores of automobile manufacturers, now we have 3. Consolidation reduces security rather than enhances it. Absent the consolidation of automobile manufacturing, the loss of one or two of them would be inconsequential.

It is hoped that the population is able to transfer this reality from automobiles to government sometime very soon. A diversity of programs that care for our elderly and poor is safer, more secure, than putting it all at risk with a single program run by a single government. Having many automobile manufacturers is safer and more secure for our economy than having only a few. A species that lives in multiple environments is less.likely to become extinct than a species that inhabits only one.

This is a law of nature that our founders recognized well, which is why they instituted multiple levels of coordinate republican governance. It is safer, more secure, both for the individual and the society than a single, central government could ever hope to be. We ignore the natural law at our own peril - as events of the last century has shown. The time to reapply our founding principles is before us, before consolidation and homogenization imperil us further still.

PrintSmith wrote: [snip]

Someday, hopefully soon, they will come to understand that commerce builds things. That the growth of commerce, not the growth of government, is responsible for what we now hold so dear.

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That's the money quote in PrintSmith's comment. I would suggest 4 books which are a lively, adventurous and exciting look at how commerce and the movement of information is the engine that has driven EVERYTHING in the world as we know it. They are fictional historical novels where the history is quite accurate. The books are Neal Stephenson's...

Cryptonomicon (1999) – Locus SF Award winner, 2000;[17] Hugo and Clarke Awards nominee, 2000[17]
Quicksilver (2003), volume I:The Baroque Cycle – Clarke Award winner, 2004;[17] Locus SF Award nominee, 2004[17]
The Confusion (2004), volume II:The Baroque Cycle and winner 2005 Locus Award
The System of the World (2004), volume III:The Baroque Cycle – Locus SF Award winner, 2005; Prometheus Award winner, 2005; Clarke Award nominee, 2005[17]

Stephenson explores subjects such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. Read then in that order. They are all interconnected (although any one book will stand on it's own). These are good reads for those long winter evening coming up.

Isn't it amazing how simple it all is to understand, yet so many deny the indisputable facts:
#1. ALL wealth comes from businesses and zero wealth comes from government.
#2. The government was built by businesses, every aspect including 'government loans' and infrastructure which would not be possible without revenue from businesses.

Now, someone please prove me wrong.