Well, you do seem strange, but studying history might cure that.
Evasion. Answer the question put to you.
Tobyone: I knew he wouldn't answer it!
Thomas Jefferson wanted the national capital far away from NYC and Hamilton for a very good reason. the real libertarians were just as leery of financial capitalism as they were King George and his cronies.
You don't get to speak for the dead. Capitalism built New York and every other city in the United States (indeed every other city in the world!).
When the pioneers came west, and started with nothing but a bunch of weeds, some resources like water and trees, and build the cities you see today from nothing but this, and their own innovation and drive.
Now you whine about them.
As for technology advancing, it had a lot more to do with govt. spending than 'capitalist bankers n stuff'.
Capitalism isn't banks. It isn't government. Capitalism is the voluntary production of products and services for voluntary sale at an agreed upon price.
It is not Wall Street. It is Main Street. It's the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, the wainright, the farrier, the quarry, the hot dog vendors, the stores like Walmart and Home Depot and Amazon, etc.
Capitalism is a game anyone can play. It creates wealth out of nothing. It is the only economic system that does. All you need is innovation and drive. It requires no government to function, but governments can be formed to keep thievery reduced and to coordinate infrastructure.
Most of the technology was invented in Europe,
Not true, but what was invented was through capitalism.
and most of the machinery inventions were done at the Federal armories at Springfield.
Nope. It was mostly done at places like the Ford Motor company. The lathe has been around for centuries, long before the U.S. even existed.
West Point produced most of the American engineers for decades.
West Point does not produce engineers.
The drive toward standardization was paid for by govt. Samuel Colt got his ideas there.
Nope. Paid by industry, Edwina. That is still true today. For example, the current electrical code was developed by electricians and fireman, and is kept as a privately developed standardization by a private standards group called the NFPA. Government later adopted this standard.
Carnegie for instance made many trips to England in order to steal British steel making innovations,
Carnagie didn't steal anything. He invented processes that made steel far cheaper, and of better quality, to the point it's considered a common base metal now.
same as the Red Chinese now do to us.
They didn't do much of anything. Their economy is currently in a shambles.
He was no inventor, just a lucky guy who benefited from insider trading by way of being Tom Scott's secretary and cashing in on the various scams Scott ran that looted his own railroad. For instance, they formed car making companies to sell rolling stock to the Pennsylvania at inflated prices; same with other supplies.
He didn't loot anything, Edwina. Democrats do, though. Open looting is a problem in many Democrat run cities.
They also extorted businesses that relied on rail transportation mercilessly, driving the most profitable out of business or forcing them to sell a big chunk of their stock to Scott and his cronies.
He didn't extort anything, Edwina. His railroads were profitable because people wanted to use them.
They tried that on John D. Rockefeller; their problem was Vanderbilt also wanted a big piece of the new oil industry for his railroad, and so did Gould's Erie, so he had his accountant set up those transportation price rigging schemes most falsely claim Rockefeller organized. Rockefeller was able to play off Scott, Gould, and Vanderbilt off against each other. And, like all the other capitalists to this day, he abhored competition and squashed it to nothing over the years. Morgan did it with several industries: railroads, steel, coal, shipping, tobacco, etc.
Stop making shit up, Edwina.
