FWIW in the 19th century the railroads were heavily subsidized by the federal government. For instance the Overland Route (think the last spike) that was built in the 1860's were financed by federal bonds and land grants. Similar grants and bonds were used to finance parts of the Eire and other canals in the 1820's and '30's.
Similarly most of the road built in the 19th century were locally financed or paid for by states. Again another case of "You didn't build it." On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And all of those people did that without using any of the infrastructure or > public education for their employees. > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:26 PM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I disagree. >> >> A great many of the wealthy in this country come from family wealth built >> before all of these things were prevalent. A great many wealthy got that >> way through ideas they had themselves, and would have had without any of >> those things. People have found and worked mines and all sorts of things. >> >> Also, we didn't pay for a lot of those things until 1917, before that the >> government was small enough to be self sufficient. The social contract >> didn't require that we extort our population. >> >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > >> > The original source of "you didn't build that". What, if any, of this do >> > you disagree with? >> > >> > "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. *Nobody*. You >> > built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You >> moved >> > your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired >> > workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory >> > because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.... >> > You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great >> idea? >> > God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social >> > contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward to the next kid who >> > comes along." Elizabeth Warren >> > >> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Bruce Sorge <sor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > > > >> > > > You didn't build that >> > > > ************ >> > > > It was a very true statement. None of the businesses were built on a >> > > > deserted island. >> > > > ************** >> > > Yeah, Obama personally went to each and every business and helped them >> > > build it. No, not really. Small businesses were started by hard working >> > > people. Sure some had to borrow the money, but so what? The people who >> > > built the business built it with their ideas, their business plan and >> so >> > on. >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:356601 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
