[wastoute]

Think about it. Benefits to the economy provided by innovation are small increments that have to accumulate over time. How much progress is destroyed by a Global Crossing or Solyndra? Small, slow, cumulative gains are destroyed in a flash by corruption. Systemic corruption, which, right up to this moment has not been reigned in.

[Will88]

Your dragging things into the discussion that had little to do with the creation and growth of the internet and the resulting offshoot businesses. The internet infrastructure required much new equipment, but also utilized existing telephone and cable TV distribution plant and equipment.

Global Crossings infrastructure is still in use and what does Solyndra have to do with the growth of the internet and the offshoot businesses?