Does this Facebook post make any sense whatsoever to you? Because it doesn't to me.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

From a conservative FB "friend" (old school acquaintence who was always a douche back then and still appears to be so today, but I still keep him on my list for shits and giggles, I guess.....)



So what they are trying to say is...what.....public road building is akin to private Antebellum cotton production? Wha.....?

Makes no sense to me at all. Please don't tell me I'm the dumb one and whoever dreamed this up was somehow insightful.

[Scuba]

1. Without manhole covers, trees won't grow in the forest. Repuke logic.

[dhol82]

2. think he's trying to say

that with private capital everything can be done better and faster.

wonder if he ever thought about how much it would cost to drive on those roads?

doubt that it was any kind of racial slur. just libertarian rhetoric.

[JoePhilly]

8. And in that model, no roads get built in rural areas because there is not enough revenue to

cover the expense of building and maintaining the roads there.

These dopes can't think more than one step ahead.

[IdaBriggs]

10. ^== This. NT

[Festivito]

11. Private vs. Government: Health care/yr P$8200, G$3000. Internet P$500/yr, G$500/10years.

Private health insurance overhead: 20% and it cannot any longer go over that because it's a rule of Obamacare. It used to be over 20%.

Government health insurance overhead, Medicare: 3%.

The assumption that private is better, faster and cheaper is a fools assumption.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. My father is amazed how much easier it is go to through Medicare versus private insurance.nt

[n2doc]

3. So...instead of taxes paid to maintain roads

They are in favor of levys and fees paid to corporations to build and maintain roads? How is that different and better?

[tjwash]

4. Someone needs to clue this idiot in that we get most of our cotton from China

[sendero]

5. Typical..

... wingnut non-sequitur. About half of the points they try to make involve absurd analogies or logical fallacies like this. They are either stupid or hopeful that their intended audience is.

[nc4bo]

6. Wonder how long it took to transport cotton from say South Carolina to China?

Or from South Carolina to even California?

Last time I checked cotton didn't breathe, need water, eat, poop or pee either and when was the last time a head of lettuce or bunch of bananas made it from Point A to Point B without turning into a brown, juicy pool of paste because it took weeks or months to get there?

Silly rabbits these Republican and Libertarian morans.

ETA: I don't understand why these folks don't get that it's our taxes and modern infrastructure that make all these global economic miracles happen. I probably never will.

[jp76]

9. Dumb (the pic, not your post!)

It's a stupid attempt to equate the fruits of slave labor with taxes.

Cotton from the unwilling, taxes from the unwilling.

It's almost clever until you actually use your brain...then it's stupid rubbish, equating slavery with citizenship.

[nc4bo]

12. How pathetic.

I just can't go there with the type of people who think this stuff up. Just ugh.

Thanks for trying to create logic out of the illogical.

[JoePhilly]

7. What they mean is that private businesses would build the roads.

Its a stupid idea, but that's what they believe.

The roads would be built by businesses to move their goods from point A to point B. And if there isn't sufficient business to be done in a certain area, roads to that location won't get built. Its a perfect free market in their mind.

What they miss is that using this logic, there would be few if any roads to rural areas because the cost to build a road to your house in the middle of nowhere is not worth building. There is no money to be made by doing so.

That's why telephone and wireless companies have charged some extra fees. The government requires them to build out the infrastructure into rural areas where there are not enough users to make such services profitable in those areas. So the companies charge all users a fee. In the end, those in urban areas subsidize the service that gets provided in rural areas.

So using your friend's logic, rural areas would basically be cut off entirely. Oddly, those areas tend to vote Republican.

[Javaman]

14. more magical thinking from the libertarian lunacy squad. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

15. "Privatize everything".