The play for 2016

mac · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 1:46 pm Post subject:

Step by step. The government has invested in roads, parks, water supply systems, ports, airports, and education. Businesses make investments that utilize those facilities. Windsurfers use roads to get to parks to sail on public lands. Some of them deny that the government does anything for them at all.

You're welcome.

nw30 · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 2:44 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the "you didn't build that" infrastructure answer, but that's not what I'm talking about.
Besides all those things were originally built by the private sector long before the government took over the responsibility,,,,,,,, even air strips.

boggsman1 · Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 9120 Location: at a computer

The Texas Rangers are struggling to make a profit. The ownership group (including GWB) decides to press the Dallas -FW politicos to float a bond to improve the facilities, sell PSL's. It passes. The team hires 1000's of people to handle the flood of new fans who come to visit the new ballpark. The revenue from the PSL's allows the team to bring in new free agents . The team is now winning, and revenues are soaring. The ownership group sells for a huge profit. Not only did GOVT largess create new private sector jobs, but it allowed the Rangers owners to make a multi-hundred million dollar profit. W should thank the DFW tax payers for his wealth.

uwindsurf · Joined: 18 Aug 2012 Posts: 968 Location: Classified

mrgybe · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 5180

MalibuGuru · Joined: 11 Nov 1993 Posts: 9300

Sadly, we will eventually fall the way of Cuba, Venezuela, and maybe even China, if we don't put a stop to big government regulation and crony capitalism.

mac · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 3:47 pm Post subject:

NW again demonstrates his last of comprehension of history. "All of those things were built by the private sector" In fact, many of the founding fathers were involved in creating public fire fighting systems because the private ones couldn't protect urban structures. When left to the private system, we had polluted water. And so forth. NW--who owns and maintains the park where you windsurf, and the roads you drove on to get there?

Here are the wing nuts that you guys listen to about how much further they would like to go in restricting the vote for Democrats:

http://www.nationalmemo.com/endorse-groups-fox-news-wants-stop-voting/

KGB-NP · Joined: 25 Jul 2001 Posts: 2856

So who IS creating jobs then?

I've never received a pay check from the government? I just seem to write checks to them.....from the money I generated with my business.....that creates jobs.....and plenty of them.

mac · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:26 pm Post subject:

I agree absolutely with Hillary. The last twenty years have been trickle up economics, with the rich moving their money off shore and the real wages going down. But what would else you expect the spin be from the oil industry apologist, who can rationalize every subsidy for using public property to make money for Chevron and Exxon, and attack every subsidy to reduce carbon use. Here's their play:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/03/972298/-Big-oil-big-profits-big-tax-breaks-big-political-contributions