I agree. Without roads, and police, and fire, and laws regulating copyright infringement, and patent infringement, and courts to enforce contracts, and a society where folks are educated enough to do the work that needs to be done, I don't see how you could ever have a sophisticated business. You could certainly get a bunch of folks together and go bonk the neighbors on the head and take their stuff, and absent a government you could be a subsistence farmer (until someone came and bonked you on the head, and took your stuff)- but all things more complicated require some sort of government, and the more complicated things get, the more reliant on government we all are. I like our complex world. The more complex it gets, the more fun it gets.
I think most people get what Obama was trying to say, and the folks who don't are probably wingnuts and republicants who take from the government, but are too hypocritical to want to support it. What can you do with people like that? Obama will no doubt refine his message. I have no doubt of that. What poor little rich Mitten going to do? Government helped him get to where he is. It even helped make him wealthy. Should be interesting to see him try to argue he did it all himself, when he quite clearly did not. He is a creature of the state- who is involved in a complex dance of self loathing. |
