Karl Bode
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Re: IMHO: BS
Stoopid fire dapartmentz!1 |
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BillRoland
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| said by Karl Bode  :Stoopid fire dapartmentz!1 Your quote actually (ironically) makes the point that most people here need a reality check. The proper role of government is to provide basic services and infrastructure. Public safety, law enforcement, etc are proper and necessary roles. Being a broadband provider hardly qualifies in even the loosest interpretation. Folks, broadband internet access is a convenience, it is not a sewer system or electricity, or a road or a fire department. The fact that neither Cox nor AT&T wanted to build out this thing should tell us something, considering those "evil greedy" corporations only want to make money (how awful of them). The citizens are going to get stuck paying far more for this than was told to them. Like the saying goes, there's a sucker born every minute.
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Karl Bode
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| On the contrary, I think the irony is how a great number of people are perfectly happy spending billions or trillions of tax dollars on all manner of waste, fraud, war, bank bailouts and bridges to nowhere...but the mere idea of a city coming together and voting to wire themselves with broadband infrastructure makes some people fan their foreheads in feigned outrage as if the people of Lafayette just killed a puppy or something....
The people there voted. Occasionally tax dollars go toward infrastructure improvements and not Lockheed Martin missles. Get over it. |
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Nightshade
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If the people wanted it and voted for it, then they should get it. Let them reap the benefits and suffer the consequences of their vote.
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espaeth
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said by Karl Bode :On the contrary, I think the irony is how a great number of people are perfectly happy spending billions or trillions of tax dollars on all manner of waste, fraud, war, bank bailouts and bridges to nowhere So because the government wastes massive amounts of money on other things, we should celebrate this waste of taxpayer dollars? |
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jhboricua
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| said by espaeth :So because the government wastes massive amounts of money on other things, we should celebrate this waste of taxpayer dollars? Absolutely. |
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jjeffeory
join:2002-12-04
USA | reply to BillRoland
I disagree. Broadband internet access has become AS important as either phone or electricity for many Americans. It is certainly an equal to phone service. It should be treated as an inportant addition to basic services in this 21st century world. |
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jjeffeory
join:2002-12-04
USA | reply to espaeth
Wow, that quote was taken completely out of context and distorted completely. |
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natter
join:2000-12-18
Littleton, CO | reply to jjeffeory
"It should be treated as an inportant addition to basic services in this 21st century world."
no matter what it costs the real taxpayers... |
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adisor19
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This is not a waste of tax payer dollars. On the contrary, the people of a town voted to use THEIR tax dollars to bring internet to their town when the evil corporation wouldn't. This, is not a bridge to nowhere, it's an improvement to their lives. I would be proud to live in such a city.
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