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Moonbat Exterminator Wrote: Jul 24, 2012 1:11 PM
ARPANET utilized as its primary backbone, telephone lines and associated hardware developed by AT&T, aka the phone company.
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As part of his campaign to expand the size and scope of the federal government (and to justify his advocacy of class-warfare taxation), President Obama has been asserting that all of us benefit from government spending.
It’s why he now echoes Elizabeth Warren’s claim that entrepreneurs owe their success to government programs and activities.
It’s also why he cites the Internet as an example of wise, prudent, and far-seeing government intervention.
Sounds like a powerful example. The kind of anecdote that leaves libertarians momentarily speechless.
But there’s just...
Thank the Private Sector for the Internet, not Government