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EVEN if people say the gov made it, who funds the gov? Where does the money to fund said gov come from?

And, who does the government turn to when they actually want something to be built? It's private industry that is contracted to build anything the government uses, whether it be for the armed forces or for the non-military government equipment. In essence, anything that the government does or builds, comes from non-government contractors. The government itself doesn't have the expertise to build what a private company can, and so, the government contracts go to those private companies, where the expertise exists.

funny factoid most people don’t know.

ROLM, the first major PBX manufacturer to make Voice Mail work with it’s system was also one of the 1st companies to provide military hardened computers to the military.

So many people have no clue as to just how much is even sub-contracted from those contracted producers. My husband is a machinist and has helped build a great many things that our government, military, and scientific agencies use. Once in a while he’s worked on projects where everything is under armed guards (some years back). The “government” can’t do ANYTHING on their own, and even when it tries to supposedly “help” business and technology 99.9% of the time it’s a payback to cronies who could care less if the job is actually done, or done well at all.

I’m getting off-track because this whole attitude that the President has brought to light is being defended by some real idiots in our world. What I wish is that all those people - including our President would go buy an island somewhere and try to make it with all of their rules, and NO HELP from anywhere else. They’d all be starving or dead within a year (depending on climate).