Posted on 06/09/2016 9:56:26 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi Claims Government Created the iPhone, Not Steve Jobs or Apple Aaron Kliegman
BY: June 9, 2016 10:45 am
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) claimed Thursday that the federal government created the iPhone rather than the technology company Apple or its former chief executive officer, Steve Jobs.
Anybody here have a smartphone? Pelosi asked an audience at a Democratic National Convention Platform hearing in Washington, D.C.
Pelosi then held up an iPhone for everyone to see, telling those in the room, In this smartphone, almost everything came from federal investments in research.
She then listed elements of the iPhone that various parts of the government have contributed to in certain ways.
The list goes on and on. If you want to learn more, look at the Association for the Advancement of Science in America, and they have the full list, Pelosi said. They say Steve Jobs did a good idea designing it and putting it together. Federal research invented it.
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This is par for the course for Pelosi. She’s stuck on stupid.
Dear Pelosi:
One thing government has invented is the ability to kill large populations of those that it governs.
5.56mm
Another idiotic pronouncement of “you didn’t build that” from a “government is God” worshipper.
Winner.
ping
The government has never ‘created’ anything except messes.
This is going to fly in the face of what I’m hearing from black supremacist groups just about everything was invented by black people, INCLUDING, the cell phone.
You got that right.
This includes canned food, guns, tang, computers, the Internet, the Jeep, microwave ovens, the chariot (which led to the car), GPS, longitude, maps and a host of other things.
The key here is that no, the government did not create them and the government did not manufacture them and the government did not bring them to the open market.
Absolutely correct. I was thinking along those lines when I first started reading the article.
Of course it goes without saying that Pelosi is a moron. She’s the one that uttered the phrase: “We have to pass this bill to find out what’s in it.”
Now, like the good little liberal lapdog she is, she parrots Little Barry’s: “You didnt build that.”
I am so sick of these people.
The flip side of the statement being made by the EX-speaker (There is a God!) is that Rep.Pelosi & President Obama & the Leftists (Democrats) has been systematically and deliberately DEFUNDING the very areas of the Government that she credits with these advances. Instead they divert money into the ever widening maw of welfare and social change. Their interest is in dependent voters and ever larger bureaucracy, that keeps them elected!
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