{"id":5641,"date":"2012-08-05T08:48:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T13:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2012-08-05T12:02:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T17:02:34","slug":"you-didnt-build-it-but-neither-did-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=5641","title":{"rendered":"“You didn’t build it”, but neither did you."},"content":{"rendered":"

Back on July 4th, I posted some thoughts <\/a>about how much work it took by our society that I was able to eat a meal at Penn Station in New York City – how the water was being carried by a viaduct system built in the 1800s, how each of the components of the meal was coming from different parts of the country and the very nature of a McDonalds could not exist if it wasn’t for generations of people building things to make urban life possible.<\/p>\n

On July 16th, President Obama (apparently having read my blog post!) said essentially the same thing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The ability for a business to succeed is dependent on many other things that needed to be in place before your idea could blossom.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The employees in your company went to college and universities, your office buildings needed steel and concrete\u00a0to be built, fire and police protection, a clean reliable supply of water, adequate electrical power, telecommunications, a cleaning crew.\u00a0 Your employees need to live in houses and drive to work or ride public transportation.<\/p>\n

However, one of the problems with President Obama’s decidedly Socialist remarks is that the United States government didn’t build any of that either, although FDR definitely tried to Federalize a lot of things (indicated by an *)<\/p>\n

Let’s start with the list of things the Federal Government did build<\/p>\n