RPB wrote:Not sure what you are asking; but taking your question as asked:bnc wrote:What resources required for internet service to exist are limited?
Example: Most of the Texas Hill Country=
1) no DSL available in most areas; what is available is more costly than in Metropolitan areas
2) no fibre optic nor cable available... priced roughly 10 times higher than metro areas
3) limited wireless availability, depending which side of a hill you live
4) Satellite mostly available
5) Dialup available
But, that's the free market and sparse population/expense of adding DSLAMS/running cables, it doesn't really need government controlling it more.... as a market grows/population increases, companies meet demand, same as cities/companies did providing water/sewer/phone and other services.... as demand increases, more companies arise; more competition and lower prices as people switch companies/providers.
I recall being on a waiting list in Houston for DSL/Cable and paying a lot when I got it ... now it's 10 times faster and a fourth of the price.... all without additional gov't controls.
If "free market" works ... why CHANGE it?
It's all about Gov't obtaining more power.USA1 wrote:If it aint broke...obama will fix it until it is.
Here are quotes from someone who "got it". These were taken from a speech given in 1964...
"Well I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers."
"Well, I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as "the masses." This is a term we haven't applied to ourselves in America. But beyond that, "the full power of centralized government" -- this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They knew that governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those Founding Fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy."
"This is the issue of this election: whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down: [up] man's old -- old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course."
-- Ronald Reagan
I wonder if we are willing to stand up and say NO to all of this massive government takeover of our lives and our freedoms? Just wondering?...