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Originally Posted by stickyfingerz
Which way to da bread lines comrade?
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Before the new deal and the gi bill. There was no middle class just rich and poor. Most here would of been in the poor category.
Also those who make money on the net if it wasnt for the government there would be no net to make money on.
Marc Andreessen: Mosaic was built at the University of Illinois. I was an undergrad student, but I was also a staff member at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, which is basically a federally funded research institute. When Al Gore says that he created the Internet, he means that he funded these four national supercomputing centers. Federal funding was critical. I tease my libertarian friends—they all think the Internet is the greatest thing. And I’m like, Yeah, thanks to government funding.