Actually other than the atom bomb and WWI and WWII (all of which are
parts of defending and protecting the country which is what the fed is
tasked to do in the constitution) the other things were all done by
private enterprise on contract to the federal govt. Who do you thing
did the research for building the moon ship and super collider and
internet. BTW the internet was created by a Brit private citizen, not
the federal govt. DARPA was created by the Pentagon based on private
enterprise, not created by the feds. Funded by the feds but the work
was done by private enterprise and university labs.
The feds may provide the money (which, in case you didn't realize, they
got from the people through taxes) but the research was done by private
enterprise and university departments, many of which were funded by
private enterprise in the first place.
My point is that if the feds would do what they were tasked to do and
let the rest of us alone, these things would happen. Even the highways
would happen if the feds would just sign the contracts to have them
built. In most cases the highways were built by the private
contractors anyway. Even the Big Dig was done by private contractors
and most of the problems were because of interference from the state and
fed officials and their stupid regulation and the congressmen and their
earmarks and payoffs (Bawney, Kennedy, Kerry, Markey, et al. as well as
the state legislature and assorted Dem politicians).
studio wrote:
On Jul 25, 2:01 am, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
Actually the answers to both questions is a resounding yes. If you
think private enterprise can't do things cheaper than the government,
then you really need to open a store selling what you are smoking.
Really?
Then why didn't private enterprise go to the moon first? Or build a
super collider first? Or build a build an atom bomb first? Or win WW1
or WW2 first? Or build an Internet first?
Because it's too risky and requires vast amounts of money and research
that private enterprise doesn't have is why.
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