Lennart Thornros <lenn...@thornros.com> wrote: Your faith in government is disturbing because that kind of mindset is what > allows this totally immoral and unaccounted for misuse of the taxpayer's > money. >
Such as the development of railroads, steamships, aviation, highways, subways, city traffic light control, sewers, water treatment plants, nuclear power, the computer, the laser, space based weather forecasting, the GPS, the Internet and decoding the human genome. Right? All paid for by governments. All bad, bad, BAD misuses of the taxpayer's money. Oh, and cold fusion. Discovered by government researchers. Paid for by governments. Add to that technology subsidized by governments, such as precision machine tools and mass produced interchangeable parts (both invented for military firearms), antibiotics (also used in war), telegraphs, semiconductors and PV and what is left? Nothing! Essentially, no important technology has been developed since 1750 without direct involvement and funding by governments. You need to study history. You keep making this empty assertion, but you have no historical data or present data to back it up. This is a matter of fact, not opinion. - Jed
