Figured you were clueless. You always are. All mouth..no brain.
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Bare-ya-cuda
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But aren’t you for big government?
HemiHauler
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Am I? Point out something I wrote that would lead you to believe that.
HemiHauler
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How would the Internet have been invented without government?
Bare-ya-cuda
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Idk, that’s why I was asking. Your political affiliation seems to be to the left of center and those are usually for bigger government.
Interconnected computing systems go all the way back to the early 1960s. The government just built on something that was already happening in the private sector. If you want to give them credit for anything, you can credit them with the protocol.
PJay
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You say nothing about the current administration, which should be lighting your hair on fire.
It's just the politicians and their appointees who do that. Unless you think census workers and IRS data entry people are getting lavish pay and bennies.
We know military personnel aren't living large, nor are national park service people.Here's something that may interest you, though:
You can see what jobs are open in what states, along with pay and bennies.
But first look at this:
372 federal agencies, with an average of 3700 employees each. Yikes.
You're right. I didn't even look at that. But Democrats are always government bloaters and Trump said he was going to do away with a lot of the crap.
HemiHauler
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Government gets no credit for the protocol, unless you mean they picked a winner (and by extension a loser). ARPANET was one of MANY packet switching protocols. Had ARPA not provided the funding, I have no reason to believe one of the many privately developed packet switching protocols wouldn't have made it's way to the public market place. For Pete's sake, Microsoft had an entirely private intranet fairly early on and there's no reason to believe it that technology couldn't have made it to the public were it not for the government releasing TCP/IP into the public domain.
HemiHauler
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And then added 7tn to the debt. LOL.
HemiHauler
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It's the curse of libertarians. My leftist friends think I'm a right wing maniac, and my rightist friends think I'm a left wing maniac.
What's a man to do?
HemiHauler
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Go have a seat. No one cares what you think.
HemiHauler
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It's just the politicians and their appointees who do that. Unless you think census workers and IRS data entry people are getting lavish pay and bennies.
Here's something that may interest you, though:
You can see what jobs are open in what states, along with pay and bennies.
But first look at this:
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372 federal agencies, with an average of 3700 employees each. Yikes.
That's a lot of money that is better used by the people who EARNED it rather thank teat-sucking government slugs.
PJay
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Great. Be sure to put me on ignore.
Well it surely wasn't in government employees, per the numbers.
I think you say these things just to get a rise out of the government workers on here. Do you seriously want to do away with National Park Service, and the military, and the FDA?
I think we can all agree that the number of government agencies, many of them redundant, is ridiculous, but to say all government employees are "teat sucking slugs bilking the Treasury for lavish benefits" is absurd. Even for you.
And that's my final word to you on this topic because you're just trying to be provocative and I find that irritating.
But just for fun, here is a list of federal agencies. I clicked through to see what these people actually do, and many of them the answer is "nothing". Or it's "something some other agency already does".
www.usa.gov
A-Z index of U.S. government departments and agencies | USAGov
Get contact information for U.S. federal government agencies, departments, corporations, instrumentalities, and government-sponsored enterprises. Find websites, email, phone numbers, addresses, and more.
HemiHauler
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OMG! The FDA?
You mean the agency which was politicized and goaded into approving the covid jab for no other reason than to provide legal grounds for Joe Biden to mandate it?
My goodness, you people are fickle!
And that's my final word to you on this topic because I simply cannot abide jellyfish like you without any principles.
Good day.