[apillar]

Rush Limbaugh had a good take on it too. His point was that socialists like Obama have it completely reversed, successful businessmen created the need for modern roads and bridges, if Henry Ford and never mass produced the model T, we would most likely still have dirt roads and certainly no interstate system. If you followed Obama logic, the government would have built the entire modern interstate system just sitting their unused and empty and then a businessman, seeking to exploit this new creation would have began mass producing automobiles.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

If everything were left to government, we’d all be driving Trabants and Yugos on dirt roads, living in gray high-rises that periodically fall down due to faulty steel and concrete, eating gruel, using people to do the work of machines, and not be able to travel to the next town without papers. I lived seven months in communist China almost 40 years ago and know it first-hand.

[Fledermaus]

Obama is even dumber than that. DoD didn’t invenet the internet so companies can make money, they invented it to protect their computer systems and data control.

The government didn’t create the interstate highway system so we would have places to drive our cars. It was built to insure our military could move freely around the country if necessary during war.

We didn’t put a man on the moon to spur research in things that companies now sell like microwave ovens, teflon and Sudafed. The race to the moon was a race to build the best ICBM missile.

Most of all government “investments” that “benefited” private enterprise have been national security related.