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In reply to the discussion: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." [View all]jmowreader
(50,557 posts)76. Or the tax-funded road they came to your house on
There is not one business in America, not one private citizen in America, that got successful without help from the government.
Easy example: the company I work for. We have a massive hospitality division. We use government roads, government inspectors, government tourism promotion...our biggest hotel is safe because the evil government made them sink the pilings it's on forty feet deeper than our private architect wanted them.(Our biggest hotel is built on the edge of a lake; the dumbass architect wanted to set the pilings on the bedrock but the state wanted them embedded so the moist soil couldn't make them slide around.)
The baggers in the area will tell you our boss "made it on his own." The local baggers are idiots.
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Actually, if it were up to them they wouldn't be govt employees since everything would be privatized
cui bono
Apr 2013
#69
Too many conservatives are ignorant, hateful people.... who are above all else, hypocrites
aaaaaa5a
Apr 2013
#27
There it is. We the People make the government work for us. If we don't, corporations will rule.
freshwest
Apr 2013
#51
Some of those pictures scare the hell out of me but what ever floats your boat......
newmember
Apr 2013
#41
Ironic isn't it? I was thinking about how much more 'successful' the bombers would have been
mzmolly
Apr 2013
#60