said by cwire :

while talking to a local public schools I.T. man, we began discussing the price of the ds-3 that the school system was purchasing from at&t. the price he told me seemed really low to me, so i asked how this could be. he said that the school only pays 25% of it's at&t bill, and the rest of the money, 75% to be exact comes from the usf fund. i don't know if this is how it is set up for all school systems, but that 75% funding seems like it could take a big chunk of usf money.

said by Skippy25 :

But then again I am one that would declare all networks should be confiscated .

said by beerbum :

it took Commonwealth Telephone (now Frontier) about 1 year to completely wire my city of 80,000+ , and another year to add the northern suburbs.. they have their own telco network which is independent of Verizon..

bottom line it can be done, problem is nobody wants to pay to do it.

said by Skippy25 :

So you don't agree with me, but dont come here calling me an idiot because my opinion differs from yours clown.

For every positive you can provide for having universal healthcare I can give you a negative effect on society to the same magnitude. Just as for every other handout that occurs in this country. A vast majority of all problems in every nation is the direct result of "crutching" the nation and it's people from a social and economical standpoint. The laws of nature will prevail. We may be able to slow it down or distort it, but they will prevail. And the greatest law of nature is the process of natural selection whether you like it or not or want to accept it or not.