Originally Posted by
N2264J
See?
Government programs work just fine if you staff them
with competent people and fund them appropriately.
Mohawk Guy's generation has been told since birth
that government doesn't work by corporatist politicians
who get themselves elected claiming government is the
problem then go to Washington and prove it - like a self
fulfilling prophecy.
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Private companies provided the technology, taxpayers funded the effort. Government brokered the deal, none of this happens without funding from a robust economy or borrowing well beyond your means.
Understand that government has no money except that which it confiscates. Many mistake politics for real economic outcomes, nothing could be further from the truth.
Government did not build this effort, taxpayers did, thank one today. In fact, given the combined input of about half of the US people and government, we could not fund a bottle rocket.