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11/6/2014

Tom Woods Reveals the Flaws in “You Didn’t Build That”

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:14 am



This is like an audio version of the last chapter of Rollback: a rapid-fire barrage of arguments against government. Basically, Woods takes on a guy who advocates the “you didn’t build that” theory: that we should all be grateful to government for improving our lives and giving us our opportunities. Woods is unrelenting in providing a refutation of that point of view. Worth a listen. Start at 3:19 to get to the substance.

2 Responses to “Tom Woods Reveals the Flaws in “You Didn’t Build That””

  1. Anybody who has ever earned an honest dollar knows Obama’s comment is puerile. And I’ll leave it there because the rest of what I’m thinking is elitist, racist, ethnocentric, and subject to a one cent per word tax in Berkeley.

    Now, if I could get Libertarians to go the rest of the way. That every littlest part of this interaction between me and Mr. Woods is possible only because for thousands and thousands of years millions and millions of people told millions and millions of other people “Go there and do that”.

    nk (dbc370) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:20 am

  2. Hey, c’mon. We all know “you didn’t build that.” You couldn’t build that without a well-educated work force. A work force so well educated it can’t survive without government assistance to feed, clothe, and shelter itself.

    Everyone knows that the Wright brothers would never have invented the airplane without the government investing in the “shovel ready projects” that created the infrastructure that makes flight possible. Why, the airplane would never have gotten off the ground without government “investment” in runways and air terminals and parking lots (without parking lots, the car never would have been invented) and metal detectors and the obnoxious but highly educated workforce to operate those metal detectors and grope prospective air travelers. Oh, and taking “guns” away from Rooster Monkburn.

    http://images.christianpost.com/full/67529/rooster-monkburn.png

    “TSA officers are dedicated to keeping the nation’s transportation security systems safe and secure for the traveling public,” the agency said in a statement. “Under longstanding aircraft security policy, and out of an abundance of caution, realistic replicas of firearms are prohibited in carry-on bags.”

    Only the highly educated product of the American government-run education system would have recognized Rooster Monkburn’s six shooter as a realistic replica of a firearm.

    Where would the Wright Brothers be without government making flight possible, the ingrates. They think they built that.

    Steve57 (c1c90e) — 11/6/2014 @ 10:57 pm


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