[kearnyirish2]

“And besides, there were successful businesses created LONG before the Internet and Federal highway system.”

I hike along the NY/NJ border, where there was a lot of mining activity (often pre-dating the American Revolution); the whole infrastructure (roads, houses, reservoirs) was built by the entrepreneurs who ran the iron industry. they succeeded despite the government, not because of it.

[Erik Latranyi]

I live in the Marcellus Shale play for natural gas.

Private companies are building and rebuilding roads & bridges that the state was too incompetent to build properly the first time.

The private companies rebuild a bridge in a matter of weeks where the state takes years.

[SuziQ]

the whole infrastructure (roads, houses, reservoirs) was built by the entrepreneurs who ran the iron industry. they succeeded despite the government, not because of it.

Yep!