My bad, my brain skipped over the word "welfare" at the start of that sentence. On a similar note however, all of your large communications companies took in quite a bit of corporate welfare to get started & put plant (equipment) in the ground. They were too risk adverse to network our country without the government providing incentives.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
