Posted by Bret4207 on January 17, 2014 at 04:29:14 from (64.19.90.196):
In Reply to: Subsidies revisited. posted by supermpuller on January 16, 2014 at 12:42:50:
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No, Rural Electrification was a program to put people to work at the height of the Depression. It was also a way for FDR to run over some of his enemies and to use taxpayer dollars to get a lot of votes from the sheeple that believed he was doing it all for them! Rural farmers, families and businesses prior to main line electric could use a home power plant, ala- HOMELITE, or wind powered battery chargers. It's not like there was no electricity in rural areas until FDR turned the switch. And families that couldn't afford a light plant couldn't afford to wire their homes for mainline either. That's why you see so many old pics of the bare single bulb hanging from the knob and tube wiring on the ceiling, That was IT! One bulb.
This revisionist history where Uncle Sam miraculously provided free everything to all of America is pure bull.
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