"Without Government, Google and Facebook would not exist" - Obama

times247.com ^ | Fred Lucas

[Army Air Corps]

I dig the bumper sticker.

[pepsi_junkie]

Libs love to take credit for all business success by attributing it to government spending. Well throw this back at them: “The internet was indeed started with government spending. Defense spending.” Then watch the smoke come out of their ears as they try to rectify the liberal paradox of defense spending being good.

[JimWayne]

The internet would not exist (or at least would have been created much later and be at a much less developed state than it now is) were it not for government:

We have no way of saying how things would have panned out without a single regulatory rule to control the communications industry. Most likely, we would have seen progress at a much faster rate.

[C210N]

Without massive government spending, 0bama would not exist.

[TigersEye]

Without Photo Shop and Adobe Illustrator 0bama would not exist.

[Admin Moderator]

Quit abusing the Activism and Announcement sidebars.

[Defiant]

US Military funding created the internet, which allowed Google and Facebook to exist. Defense is one of the few functions that our limited federal government is supposed to take care of under the Constitution. No one has a problem with government; we have a problem with government exceeding its authority.

Once again, Barry knocks down straw man arguments no one is making.

[PghBaldy]

He is the biggest liar there is - one can say just about anything, and appear to be telling the truth, if one uses the weasel words he does. Basic science research? That modifier can cover just about anything.