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To: RetiredNow who wrote (617)7/9/2008 6:39:22 AM
From: Road Walker  Respond to of 86355
 
Literally, our government has poured hundreds of billions into the Internet through direct subsidies, joint ventures with academia and industry. The benefit to the US has also literally been in the trillions of dollars, which is a very large benefit compared to the hundreds of billions our government invested.

That's to say nothing of historical stuff like the Transcontinental railroad, the electrical grid, the Interstate system... all the major infrastructure projects that have made America great the Federal government had a hand in.



To: RetiredNow who wrote (617)7/9/2008 12:49:12 PM
From: Brumar89  Respond to of 86355
 
I've acknowledged the government paid for a lot of the technological research that led to the internet, microelectronics, and telecommunication industies. Though they did it for defense and space program reasons - not intending to launch new industries. Nor did they plan these industries. They did also provide a regulatory and legal framework that enabled the industries to develop.

I just dont see our high tech industries as being centrally planned.


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