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Re: Roll Out the (Congressional Pork) Barrel Pokka said by johnh123:said by Fatal Vector:Again I ask: Just WHAT, do you think, is all the Universal Service Fund money being collected for? Wasn't it stuff like this? NO! It is so people in rural areas can have some minimum level of phone service...it isn't so they can have broadband service that is better than what is available in urban areas, paid for by the people in those urban areas. So in other words, your jealous of what they are getting? So if they get something better, your against it because you have worse? The reason why they are getting something better is because they are investing into newer technology. What's in the urban areas, while it's slowly becoming more of what you see coming out and down the pipe, is still pretty old. It takes time to replace what's already there, rather then just putting new in.
Don't forget that people in rural areas also pay taxes, so what we paid has helped you as well. It's a two way street, not just from the city to the rural areas, but both ways! | |
| said by LoneGreyWolf:said by johnh123:said by Fatal Vector:Again I ask: Just WHAT, do you think, is all the Universal Service Fund money being collected for? Wasn't it stuff like this? NO! It is so people in rural areas can have some minimum level of phone service...it isn't so they can have broadband service that is better than what is available in urban areas, paid for by the people in those urban areas. So in other words, your jealous of what they are getting? So if they get something better, your against it because you have worse? The reason why they are getting something better is because they are investing into newer technology. What's in the urban areas, while it's slowly becoming more of what you see coming out and down the pipe, is still pretty old. It takes time to replace what's already there, rather then just putting new in. Don't forget that people in rural areas also pay taxes, so what we paid has helped you as well. It's a two way street, not just from the city to the rural areas, but both ways! It isn't jealousy, it is common sense. Why should that subsidy be used for things it isn't supposed to be? I imagine people in rural areas would be upset if money that is supposed to subsidize mass transit instead went to buy people in urban areas HDTVs. | | |
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