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To: cripplecreek

Note, as an aside, that that poster continues the pattern of illustrations of early automobiles - they frequently drove on unpaved roads.

Henry Ford developed the means to mass-produce automobiles.

Then, some time later, governments started paving roads.

Government did not, as The Won asserts, start paving roads to make it possible for someone to start mass-producing automobiles.


6 posted on 08/23/2012 6:25:16 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Wonderful post!!


8 posted on 08/23/2012 6:29:30 AM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: DuncanWaring

Proving also that Ford didn’t need roads at all to be a successful manufacturer...the customers came to him and thereby demanded better access to Ford’s product.

“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door” - RWEmerson (attr.)


13 posted on 08/23/2012 6:30:37 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Ransom Olds=Oldsmobile. Ahead of Ford if I remember correctly.

Helping keep mankind warm for 65 years.


23 posted on 08/23/2012 6:49:40 AM PDT by rktman
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To: DuncanWaring
The Won asserts, start paving roads to make it possible for someone to start mass-producing automobiles.

Its cargo cult thinking. The reality is that government should facilitate trade, not attempt to create it. (A clear need must exist)
27 posted on 08/23/2012 6:52:25 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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