And highways. And the internet and the electrical grid and GPS. And telephones and before that the telegraph, and the railroads.... and the military... the national weather service.... national parks.... libraries.... the FAA so we don't have planes flying into each other...
Yeah, we need to just go live in caves and forage for nuts and berries.
Wrong, you dumb ****, the government doesn't pay for the internet or the electrical grid. It also didn't pay for the railroads. Those are totally private. Now, if I was a jackass like you, I would hound you for the next 2 years about how you got that totally wrong.
The government set that up, because only the government CAN set that up.
Sucks to be history-ignorant.
Both claims are false. Government played a small part. Private firms were well on their way to creating something equivalent. Before the internet, we had something in my company called token ring. It has some flaws, but it would easily have evolved into the internet.
It sucks to be just plain ignorant.
It must. If it didn't you'd be able to see how it takes government to string up endless webs of wires, not to mention building the roads to access them, to make it possible to lay thousands of miles of track for trains, etc etc. What your company woulda/shoulda/coulda done is irrelevant here; it
didn't.
Know who got the GPS system started? Reagan. Not
personally, mind you, but using the government.
I said nothing about who "pays for" internet or electricity grid. But now that you mention it, I live under a socialist electricity grid anyway. It's a co-op. We get profit-sharing.
Hey you know what else the government had a hand in setting up?
--- Trolley tracks. In Wisconsin.
"Coop" means it's private. The government doesn't earn profits, moron.
Whoops! You posted another bonehead claim!
The problem with you is that you post so many I can't remember them all!
I didn't say they're the same thing, Stoopid. You just reminded me of it. No, the gummint doesn't earn profits --- shareholders do. It's a collective. You know, like socialism (a/k/a "BOOGA BOOGA") works.