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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: steve harris who wrote (630633)10/6/2011 3:34:49 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1580692
 
> If it wasn't for government handouts and the union protection racket, we would have never heard of Steve Jobs.

There's something to that. If it weren't for unions and measures like the GI Bill, not a lot of people would've had the money to buy his original, very expensive (like $6K in today's dollars) Macs in the early 80s and Apple would've gotten nowhere.

-Z