Going it alone

So Romney has a different approach to energy and the economy and his perspective about “…the power of individuals as opposed to government, individuals pursuing their interests and dreams.”.

Like those individuals who built the highways and bailed out the banks and fought WWII and sent men to the Moon and, well, you get the idea.

It’s kind of like when he said that honor students did it on their own, that it wasn’t the bus driver who did it.

I think honor students should be proud of and celebrated for their achievements, but the bus driver did get them to school, on public roads, where there were teachers who taught them and I imagine a good number of those kids had support from their parents and maybe did research at public libraries or used the Internet which, no matter what you may have heard, was developed by the Federal Government.

Sure there are people who are individually creative and get things done, but even they do it within the structure that our society built.

Of course there were also those rugged individuals who steered the banking industry, and along with it essentially the world economy, off a cliff.  But at least they did it on their own.

Gah.  It’s never as simple as the pseudo-individualists try to make it out to be. 

The whole we-built-this convention is going to be held in a convention center mostly paid for by tax dollars.

That man bugs me.