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Tommy_Carcetti

(44,499 posts) Fri Jan 4, 2013, 10:02 AM Jan 2013

Does this Facebook post make any sense whatsoever to you? Because it doesn't to me. [View all]

From a conservative FB "friend" (old school acquaintence who was always a douche back then and still appears to be so today, but I still keep him on my list for shits and giggles, I guess.....)

So what they are trying to say is...what.....public road building is akin to private Antebellum cotton production? Wha.....?

Makes no sense to me at all. Please don't tell me I'm the dumb one and whoever dreamed this up was somehow insightful.

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Does this Facebook post make any sense whatsoever to you? Because it doesn't to me. [View all] Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2013 OP

Without manhole covers, trees won't grow in the forest. Repuke logic. Scuba Jan 2013 #1

think he's trying to say dhol82 Jan 2013 #2

And in that model, no roads get built in rural areas because there is not enough revenue to JoePhilly Jan 2013 #8

^== This. NT IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #10

Private vs. Government: Health care/yr P$8200, G$3000. Internet P$500/yr, G$500/10years. Festivito Jan 2013 #11

My father is amazed how much easier it is go to through Medicare versus private insurance.nt Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2013 #13

So...instead of taxes paid to maintain roads n2doc Jan 2013 #3

Someone needs to clue this idiot in that we get most of our cotton from China tjwash Jan 2013 #4

Typical.. sendero Jan 2013 #5

Wonder how long it took to transport cotton from say South Carolina to China? nc4bo Jan 2013 #6

Dumb (the pic, not your post!) jp76 Jan 2013 #9

How pathetic. nc4bo Jan 2013 #12

What they mean is that private businesses would build the roads. JoePhilly Jan 2013 #7

more magical thinking from the libertarian lunacy squad. nt Javaman Jan 2013 #14

"Privatize everything". sinkingfeeling Jan 2013 #15