Biden’s Lies Are A Government Invention
Oct 27, 2010 Political
Joe “Gaff-o-matic” Biden is out on the campaign trail trying to scare up votes for his party in what is looking more and more like a TEANAMI heading for November 2nd. He is out there trying to make people believe that the things they have done are great and the idea is that we need the big government agenda of Obama in order to survive. According to Joe, government is so important that it was responsible for all the great inventions of the last 200 years. Joe had this to say:
“Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive.” New York Daily News
He went on to say that Lincoln paid people to lay railroad tracks and that private sector could not do that for 35 more years. The implication being that, of course, government can do it all and is better than the private sector. The reality is that if we spend enough money on something we could get anyone to do it. Why would a private business pay to lay track when government was shelling out loads of money to do it? If it had been done by private business it would have been cheaper, better done, and not been as much a burden to the taxpayer.
But what is Joe saying? He is telling us that every great idea in the last 200 years required government vision and incentive.
Here is a list of things that have been invented in the last 100 years or so. These inventions started as someone’s idea and eventually became reality. However, none of them required government vision or incentive:
- The Radio
- The zipper
- The Gillette disposable razor
- Television
- penicillin
- The ball point pen
- SCUBA
- The airplane
- Bourbon
- Baseball
- The artificial heart
- The light bulb
- The computer
- The telephone
- The sewing machine
- The telegraph
- polio vaccine
- Air conditioning
This is but a short list of things that were a vision that became reality because of the absence of government, not the presence of it. These were invented by people who were curious or who wanted to make money, or both. Some were the result of searching for solutions to certain needs. Bell invented the telephone while working on sound with regard to the deaf (he had deaf family members). They were not taking some vision from government and then getting an incentive from government to bring the government’s vision to reality.
These people worked on their own ideas and their own visions in order to invent a product that benefited mankind. In some cases, items are invented to circumvent government oppression. NASCAR would not have come about had it not been for prohibition and the tricked out cars used to run moonshine.
As Ronald Reagan said; “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
So despite what Biden said, the great things we have were developed by people who had their own visions and who did not get incentives from government (though there are certainly things invented as a result of government intervention). About the only thing government is good at inventing are the stories its members continue to tell us. The biggest invention this week that required government vision and incentive was the lie Biden told.
One only needs read what Biden used as his example. If what he said was true then certainly he could have come up with an example that was more recent than the Civil War.
Democrats believe that government is the only entity that can do something and that we must allow it to get bigger and bigger so that it can continue doing things.
Unfortunately, most of what it does it is not supposed to do and the things it is supposed to do it does not do very well or in a cost effective manner.
But Biden wants you to vote for more of that.
Next Tuesday you get to tell Joe that the people of this country run the show. Let us wash the big government progressives out of government.
Let’s make it a TEANAMI.
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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