“Employing Obama’s logic, one could argue that nearly everything the president uses in his everyday life exists only because of so-called profit-mongering and selfishness — most often in spite of government. The Internet languished for years in obscurity because government is rarely sensitive to the needs of consumers. And does anyone believe that individuals working together voluntarily (maybe with the help of some fat cat private equity firms) would not have come up with similar technology — or that they would be unable to build bridges or roads themselves?
Obama has it all backward. It is the charity of a prosperous free society that allows people to become community organizers or attain “free” health care. Washington rarely helps the free market prosper, but a prosperous private sector is what allows Washington to throw billions of dollars into unproductive but morally pleasing environmental projects and dependency programs favored by the president. Society needs the rule of law to function, not another parent.”
For government to do anything, it must first seize someone’s property.
http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/19/are-obamas-ideas-un-american