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Originally Posted by Robbie
Huh?
No they did not! Companies did.
The American Electric Power company built the very first long distance lines in 1911. And the utility companies built the rest because it's cheaper for some areas to buy electricity from other areas than it is to produce it locally. Free market...buying and selling. That is the "power grid".
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Who built the Hoover Dam and many of the electricity generating stations?
Robbie, with respect. If you advocate tax cuts, where would you like the savings to be made in the Budget. So the US doesn't borrow even more money to keep the system from sinking?
Also the financial crisis, isn't just down to the Government. A lot of the blame lies with Private Enterprise. Shipping jobs over seas, a banking sector that wasn't governed enough. And when the shit hit the fan the Government had to step in to save the country from a recession that would of made the 30s look like a tea party. While the Bankers, private enterprise, ran off to the Bahamas with their money.
Watch this to understand clearer.
Many take for granted what Governments do to keep the wheels turning. It might be the local Town Hall, State Government or Federal. Without them, it would be even worse chaos than it is.
What Obama was saying is "No Man is an Island".