Also controlled access
Also controlled access highways, they built them to move armies around faster but still...Likewise rockets, they built them to bomb London but now we have space/comsat.Likewise jet engines, built for...
View ArticleI could not disagree with you
I could not disagree with you more about the cost to our country that free trade caused. When most people have a choice about the cost of any item, they vote with their money (WalMart and cars). Before...
View ArticleNo, but during the 50's and
No, but during the 50's and 60's and even into the 70's USSR's infrastructure rivaled USA's. China's infrastructure, shoddy as it may be rival's USA's presently, crumbling terribly as it is. This is...
View ArticleI never mentioned rail guns,
I never mentioned rail guns, let alone '100 mile' ones. I was merely pointing out that rocketry does not take nation-state levels of coercively-redirected resources to develop.Nice try. We were not...
View ArticleNo, that is feudalism.
No, that is feudalism. Capitalism works best when the government doesn't have the power to "threaten" people.
View ArticleThere is no such thing as
There is no such thing as "free". Every one wants the other guy to buy American so he can save his job, and then he saves money shopping WalMart. We had tariffs for a reason (do as I say, not as I do)....
View Article@THX1178 What makes you think
@THX1178What makes you think that you can shout the truth at this mob of muppets and get away with it? Congratulations and a million greens to you, sir!!!!!!Few here have any idea of history because...
View ArticleTime's Andrew Ferguson has an
Time's Andrew Ferguson has an important piece in the current issue of the magazine that details the many signs of how the nouveaux-estatist feast off of taxpayer money as government continues to...
View ArticleThe Titanic is sinking and
The Titanic is sinking and you are mad that the first class cabins are nicer than yours. Btw ... FDR is pretty much the Iceberg in this metaphor.
View Articleonly for those that get it
only for those that get it first (banks at the window)--after that the price is to high and another round of printing is in the offing
View ArticleIntegrated circuits: Texas
Integrated circuits: Texas instruments. The demand was there from any company soldering electronics manually.The car created demand for highways and the first were privately created by highways...
View Articlebut of course not corruption
but of course not corruption or abuse of power or fraud or friends of the "court" --- just saying
View ArticlePersonal Rapid Transit, for
Personal Rapid Transit, for example.Massive subsidies for highways, and for rail prevents replacement by superior technologies.
View Articleso back to the primis-- gov't
so back to the primis-- gov't is a sleasy whore with one hand on your cock and the other in your wallet-but the gov't is people so then gov't persons-( public sector union types, politicos, lobby...
View ArticleHighways; were already being
Highways; were already being produced privately.Integrated circuits; were already being produced privately.Networks; were already being produced privately.Satellites; we'll never know since government...
View ArticleTo you thx1178, "The world we
To you thx1178, "The world we are moving to will require a great deal of humility." Yes, in the world you invision men will humble themselves before the almighty state and bow to it's power,or be...
View ArticleStrap a couple of $200 Soviet
Strap a couple of $200 Soviet rockets to a Chinook and BAM! Problem solved for $400 and an occy strap. See?
View ArticleQuite an excellent response
Quite an excellent response and analysis. Citeing five good outcomes does not make justification for the thousands of wasteful bridges to nowhere. The overall pattern has been a tremendous drag on an...
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