I’m not sure what this is saying. So should we keep the liberal NYC folk on the leading edge and on the dole, and put the rural people that work and pay the same taxes as everyone else in an ill informed special cage without roads or communications infrastructure just because it costs more?
As a rural American I believe that I have the same rights as every other American and deserve the same opportunities.
But if there aren’t enough of you “rural americans” in a given area to make offering services to you profitable, why should the rest of us subsidize you getting those services. It would seem that part of the trade off for leaving the noise and dangers of the city would be fewer services...
You believe high speed internet is a RIGHT?
Really???
So if it cost a trillion to get you your God-given internet right, it’d be ok? It’s called ROI. Your argument sure does defeat your tagline.
I hope that you are being sarcastic. If not, I want a view of 18 miles of prairie and foothills from my back door. (Without moving of course to your beautiful state.) Does this mean that taxpayers will also have to put in a Starbucks three blocks from your house?
I live in a small town in the mountains. What about my right to have an opera house and a football stadium with a major league team nearby? Don’t I deserve the same as the citified Americans?
He's right. People in NYC have a Statue of Liberty close by. Every rural resident in American also deserves to have one within, say, a one hour drive. And a symphony. too. Those are culturally important. And a zoo. People in Washington have the option to work at the Pentagon. Rural Americans deserve this right, too. Every small town in American must have a Pentagon.
“As a rural American I believe that I have the same rights as every other American and deserve the same opportunities.”
Either you forgot the sarcasm notation, or you are seriously on the wrong web site!
Guy who lives in the city has the opportunity to shop at a convenience store down the block: I want one a block from MY home.
Guy in the city has the opportunity to ride light rail to work: I want the light rail to come to MY block.
Guy in the city has the opportunity to go an art opening at a gallery near him every few weeks: I want a half dozen galleries built near MY home.
Ad nauseum - literally, buddy.
As a suburban American I have a right to cheap productive rural land with a house built on it to use for vacations and to bug out in case of collapse. The Federales should buy one for me for $100,000 and your taxes should pay for it
BTW if your fellow rural dwellers get their cooperative act together you can probably bring in a high speed wireless internet system to serve 10-20 families. Might even be Gov't grants for that.