The government also funded those railroads. They gave land grants in the territories to build the railroads on...
The construction and operation of the line was authorized by the Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 and 1864 during the American Civil War during the American Civil War. Congress supported it with 30-year U.S. government bonds and extensive land grants of government-owned land. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad So yes...they were using other people's money. ------------------------------------ Three Ravens Consulting Eric Roberts Owner/Developer [email protected] tel: 630-486-5255 fax: 630-310-8531 http://www.threeravensconsulting.com ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: LRS Scout [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 9:38 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: anyone watch last night's debate? Yes, think gold strike and rail roads when those places weren't even really part of this country, or were only territories. Even those that used public services prior to 1917 weren't spending other American's money for the most part. That is the level of federal government I want us to return to. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > And all of those people did that without using any of the > infrastructure or public education for their employees. > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:26 PM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I disagree. > > > > A great many of the wealthy in this country come from family wealth > > built before all of these things were prevalent. A great many > > wealthy got that way through ideas they had themselves, and would > > have had without any of those things. People have found and worked > > mines and all sorts of > things. > > > > Also, we didn't pay for a lot of those things until 1917, before > > that the government was small enough to be self sufficient. The > > social contract didn't require that we extort our population. > > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > The original source of "you didn't build that". What, if any, of > > > this > do > > > you disagree with? > > > > > > "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. > > > *Nobody*. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want > > > to be clear. You > > moved > > > your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You > > > hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in > > > your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the > > > rest of us paid > for.... > > > You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a > > > great > > idea? > > > God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying > > > social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward to the > > > next kid who comes along." Elizabeth Warren > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > You didn't build that > > > > > ************ > > > > > It was a very true statement. None of the businesses were > > > > > built > on a > > > > > deserted island. > > > > > ************** > > > > Yeah, Obama personally went to each and every business and > > > > helped > them > > > > build it. No, not really. Small businesses were started by hard > working > > > > people. Sure some had to borrow the money, but so what? The > > > > people > who > > > > built the business built it with their ideas, their business > > > > plan and > > so > > > on. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:356564 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
