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Alaska’s Cable Company Wants to Put The Whole State on Welfare So It’ll Have Customers
Townhall.com ^ | July 3, 2016 | Brian McNicoll

Posted on 07/03/2016 7:53:40 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: nascarnation
There’s a 50yr plus history of cable companies bribing politicians to secure exclusive territories, starting in the big metro areas in the 1960s.

In NYC, the politicians kept that gravy train chuggin' along until the very late 80s, early 90s. Many politicians ended up with executive positions in cable companies before they started merging. I live in rural WV now and folks here were amazed to find out that they had cable long before it was available to me in Queens, NY.

21 posted on 07/03/2016 9:19:24 AM PDT by Roccus
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To: FewsOrange
Well, no.

The Dividend is a payment from the State of Alaska to it's shareholders on the return earned from their property.

Much better then the state keeping it all the way they do every where else.

22 posted on 07/03/2016 9:26:16 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: nascarnation

And this is the reason smart people in small towns are rejecting new processing plants. For many small towns though it is too late. They have been destroyed.

What they don’t realize all too often is that the jobs promised are not for them, the locals and that their school systems are going to be burdedned with teaching in tongues they have never heard. All at taxpayer expense since the new businesses have been granted huge tax exemptions. They pay nothing and the people pay it all.

And that is jus tone other seed of the destruction of America as we know it.


23 posted on 07/03/2016 9:26:53 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Kaslin

A few CEOs (corporations) control all the politicians (bribes) and keep the sheeple from Revolution with crumbs—freebies and lies and addictions: Total destruction of virtue of the masses (children) which always collapses culture (nihilism).

It is all unconstitutional in America—BUT lawyers are whores, nowadays, and removed Right Reason and Natural Law from our “Just Laws” LOL-—go figure how they got away with that??????? (Control of Words controls the “thinking” LOL).

Lawyers twist and destroy Language/words to be meaningless which makes “laws” meaningless and irrational. It is unconstitutional by the way to have arbitrary, irrational “Law” like those that kill babies or laws that promote sodomizing others. They should be declared “Null and Void” in a true Justice system. (Justice is the Queen of Virtue).

We got to go back to pre-1912 dictionaries and Rule of Law (Natural Law/God’s Design). Warping words, warps everyone’s worldview, esp. children, who are exposed to the twisted, irrational Neo-Marxism in skools (slavery). Common Core is complete Neo-Marxism/Neo-Freudism to corrupt the moral formation and sexual identity formation of children and remove children from their biological parents (Reality/Natural Family/Natural Law (Common Sense formation). Skools are designed to destroy virtue, self-reliance, sexual morality so that children are addicts, consumers and totally irrational (devoid of the Wisdom and Traditions of the Ages which created Modern Science and Free Will/Individuality (Christian Worldview only)

Greeks and Romans were VERY CAREFUL ABOUT LANGUAGE-—they KNEW how EASY it is to CONTROL EMOTIONS with rhetoric (just WORDS). If they can control your emotions (by total control of all your information/ideas/books), they control your Minds......most people “feel” the truth—they are too lazy to search for Truth since Truth will set you Free and Wisdom is only possible with extremely hard work (Virtue) and people are naturally lazy and take the easy road all of the time if they lack virtue (HABITS of GOOD). Christian Ethics created the most perfect “justice” system of all time.........and so that worldview is being eliminated off the face of the Earth. The elites/CEOs want compliant slaves for the state and that is what State skools are designed to produce (Socrates).

WAKE UP, America....we are being lied to and our legal “system” is now a complete JOKE and IRRATIONAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL. It is WHY crony “capitalism” is the status quo and corporations “rule” us now-——just a massive CARTEL SYSTEM which will make us into slaves—no possibility of Free Will at all—ALL ideas will be controlled and FORCED into the heads of children no matter how SICK and UNNAtURAL (to destroy Logic and Reason (Age of Reason/Western Civilization).


24 posted on 07/03/2016 9:38:23 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Kaslin; ExTexasRedhead

Here you have just one of thousands of “pictures” of our crony capiltalists working to line their own pockets. These are the people who fund the GOPe and the RATs. They have no “ideology” other than “obscene personal gain at the expense of the citizens.” Vote Trump!


25 posted on 07/03/2016 10:12:50 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: P.O.E.

Alaska already is the biggest welfare state getting a government check every year. They complained they only get a thousand this year. Nasty takers.


26 posted on 07/03/2016 11:20:54 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Kaslin

Interesting reading this story and yet recalling how Alaska is cited with approval as an excellent example of how a society works with a guaranteed Government annual income payment (permanent fund). hmmm


27 posted on 07/03/2016 11:46:12 AM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: SES1066

“Interesting reading this story and yet recalling how Alaska is cited with approval as an excellent example of how a society works with a guaranteed Government annual income payment (permanent fund). hmmm”

Dude, do some math. $1000/12 = death from starvation. It’s expensive to live in Alaska - good example would be living at your local airport (example for price of goods).

I’ll agree with anyone that Alaska is another socialist paradise built on oil money - kinda like Venezuela - complete with 3rd world type poverty in the rural bush villages.

Now that oil prices have tanked, folks are moving out. The last time the oil prices tanked (mid-19802) 40K+ people left - just from Anchorage. I see that going on (again) right now, there isn’t a block in town where at least one house is for sale, RVs parked at the curb with for sale signs, etc, etc.

And yes, GCI is the queen of FedGov welfare payments.


28 posted on 07/03/2016 1:20:16 PM PDT by ASOC
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To: Kaslin

Alaska has every resource imaginable but block development for what?
Feel good environment policies?


29 posted on 07/03/2016 2:09:03 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Kaslin
. Alaska is in a budget crisis.

They shouldn't have elected that liberal slimeball as Governor. He wants an income tax.

30 posted on 07/03/2016 11:29:58 PM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery)
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To: Kaslin

so..... Alaska is now Venezuela but a lot less crowded.


31 posted on 07/04/2016 12:24:38 AM PDT by Enchante (No lipstick on the PIAPS!! #NeverShrillary)
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btw, this sounds like one of the more insane projects ever attempted, nearly $20 million per village (probably 200 or so residents per village??):

"The big investment he’s working on now is a $220 million project to bring high-speed broadband to a dozen remote Alaskan villages."
32 posted on 07/04/2016 12:27:55 AM PDT by Enchante (No lipstick on the PIAPS!! #NeverShrillary)
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To: Kaslin
Alaska has in recent years derived 90 percent of its revenue from oil and gas taxes, but it has gone from pumping 2 million barrels per day 30 years ago – a quarter of all U.S. output at the time – to 500,000 barrels per day now.

So simple a... uh... politician can do it:

Raise TAXES!


33 posted on 07/04/2016 3:59:05 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: freedomwinsout
He wanted gov’t to give free cable to all poor people...

Solomon observed that there was nothing new under the sun...

https://www.bing.com/search?q=hillary%20promises%20broadband%202020&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=hillary%20promises%20broadband%202020&sc=0-31&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=F1959E76BE7447B3A6DD4070A84E4C73

34 posted on 07/04/2016 4:01:59 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: savagesusie
Greeks and Romans were VERY CAREFUL ABOUT LANGUAGE-—they KNEW how EASY it is to CONTROL EMOTIONS with rhetoric (just WORDS).

Solomon says:

35 posted on 07/04/2016 4:04:35 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Impy

Didn’t Palin endorse this loser?


36 posted on 07/05/2016 2:15:33 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade ( America's Party! Tom Hoefling/Steve Schulin 2016)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

It appears it was a different Ron...

https://www.bing.com/search?q=ron+duncan.+palin+endorse&form=EDGEAR&qs=PF&cvid=b2d139a657b04afca233cb656cbe77a4&pq=ron%20duncan.%20palin%20endorse


37 posted on 07/05/2016 4:42:46 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Yeah.


38 posted on 07/05/2016 3:02:24 PM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery)
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