The government needs to keep its frickin' nose out of business, whether it is mandating digital TV, which should have been left to the free market, or whether it is broadband access they should just keep the feds out of it. The free market will take care of things like that when they are economically feasible IF the market is allowed to work. Unfortunately it isn't allowed to work and people like you who think the feds should actually have a hand in any kind of business are partially to blame.
Return the US to the free market, bring back freedom to the market place and to this country.
I am tired of watching the feds usurp power they have no constitutional right to exercise, down with big government, up the Republic.
Section 8 - Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To...
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
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Our founding fathers realized that there is a value to universal connectivity and that the private sector, on its own, is not capable of achieving this. And so I have no problem extending from post roads to interstate highways, railroads, electricity and telephone lines, the internet (which was a result of DARPA) and the next generation internet.
OTOH, the Constitution does not give the authority to establish non-universal infrastructure such as the Big Dig or to build up the intranet of selected companies.