It's big government's role to deliver things that most people don't want. And charge a fee for it. And charge taxes on top of the fees.
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I want it and my neighbors want it. We have been paying for the infrastructure via Gore’s telephone tax for many years, so the “free market” principles have already been circumvented and the bill for this has already been paid.
The same could have been said about indoor plumbing around the turn of the century.
That’s right, Zero. Keep the Sheeple addicted to crack-highspeed internet, so they spend all day every day on discussion boards complaining instead of actually going out and protesting the government...
Oh wait.
I expect there were some people who did want electricity in their homes when they REA lines went by. Most did though, my father-in-law and his brother support themselves during the Depression by following the REA crews and selling electrical supplies to rural homeowners off the back of a truck.
After the Obamaconomy kicks in, 2/3 of Americans won’t have computers left to use it.
What looks good today will look bad in 6 - 8 years.
“Two-thirds of Americans without broadband don’t want it”
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it’s for bigbromofo to say what we want!
Most of the people without it, or that think they don’t want it, are in rural areas.
The peole in rural areas also tend to live in more rural areas.
For ZERO to be pushing for rural areas to get broadban ( which will expose them to non-msm news and information) should tell everyone that he isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed!
“Two-thirds of Americans without broadband don’t want it”
Ummm..., I can assure the 2/3 that say they don’t want it, that they do... LOL...
Having used broadband and using the Internet and also, Free Republic, no less, it makes a very big difference with broadband. They just don’t know they want it... :-)
Besides, when they find they can bypass the MSM and go around the world, if necessary to find news that is not even printed here, and when the paper is no longer delivered at their door (if it is even done so now, for that group), when they can do all the other things that we all do on the Internet — they’re not only gonna want it, they’ll need it...
I am sitting here in a small town (pop 197) in the middle of nowhere, Idaho, enjoying my recently upgraded to 6.0 Mb., at no additional cost, DSL. I am connected to the outside world, 100 miles away by fiber optic.
I want to thank everybody for their contribution to my good fortune via the “Universal Connectivity” fee on their telephone bills.