Insane Stupidity

[sirs]

No, I never referenced "no taxation".  I referenced how we were functioning just fine with a small Government, not NO Government.  Small Government dealt with exactly the issues you brought up.  It was the wars that required additional Government overload

[Plane]

This country was backwards as Hell in 1915. My grandfather was born in 1888, and I remember him talking about harvesting with a scythe, the impassible roads, no electricity or telephones, no indoor plumbing.  People actually starved to death in 1915 in this country. You just believe any crap you read that agrees with your ignorant perspective.

When did government give us all indoor plumbing?
What role did the government play in the invention and dissemination of tractors?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Indoor plumbing came with municipal water companies in most places.

The prosperity of this country in 1915 was minimal. The US was very backward then by any standard.
 Most people lived in the country or in slums. Prosperity came with roads between towns, public schools for everyone.

[Plane]

Indoor plumbing came with municipal water companies in most places.

The prosperity of this country in 1915 was minimal. The US was very backward then by any standard.
 Most people lived in the country or in slums. Prosperity came with roads between towns, public schools for everyone.

Lots of farmers had their own indoor plumbing, but I will give in on this point , water projects by the government date back to ancient times and are a proper sort of government project.

You are quite wrong about the state of things in 1915, US cities were as rough as European cities of the same era and US farms were the best anywhere .

A greater proportion of us lived on the farm back then, that farming has converted from a majority to a minority may seem like progress to you, but to me the difficulty of making a living at a distance from urban areas is almost tragic.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Most farmers were either small landholders or tenant farmers, and they had no indoor plumbing.

I know about this first hand. My grandfather was born and grew up on a small farm near Moberly, Missouri. he was a tenant farmer until the market dropped out for what he was growing (corn and barley) and he became a freight agent for the Railway Express in McCook, NE. Later he started a livery stable in Kansas City and ended up working for Standard Oil (now Amoco) as a service station operator. With his father, he built his own house in Kansas City, completing it in 1922.

[Plane]

My father installed the indoor bathroom on the house he grew up in.

The house was nearly a century old at that point.

Electrification was key to this kind of improvement, and by the way, was key to the career of LBJ.