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There are no national broadband issues that need addressing

Going after earmarks because of 18B while there are so many other "gifts" worth much more is just non-sensical.

Mr. McCain's problem is his poor campaign team. "Earmarks" is precisely why McCain voted against the bill with all the "goodies" in it, but he failed to point that out when he had the chance.

Problem with earmarks is not just the bills that pass but also them being used to shoot down bills that competition does not want to be passed. I guess people only under stand $$$. But then if thats the case, why even make it part of your campaign...

And no, Joe Taxpayer does not need to "solve" any broadband issues. Get out of the way and let the States handle it.
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dnoyeB
"Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard. " Ecclesiastes 9:16

And who funds the States? Jane Taxpayer.

Or that the States are in the same or worse position deficit-wise as the Federal gov't. California, which has been running Obamanomics for more than a decade is on the verge of TOTAL collapse.

You want to see what an Obama fiscal policy would look like, just look at Sacramento. In the fat years, balloon gov't exponentially. In the lean years, come crying to Joe Taxpayer that they'll let out all the criminals and fire all the firefighters if they don't balloon taxes.

Radical liberal fiscal policy is not change, it's just more of the same. Gov't isn't the solution to any broadband problem. They can't even do the most basic functions without f-ing it all up and having it cost 100X what it should cost.

Of course McCain is no better as an ardent free trader, expecting US workers to compete head to head with slave wages and near zero regulations of other countries or worse, wanting to make every illegal here legal with the sign of a pen, inviting an invasion of unskilled illegals from the south that will decimate public services and drive down wages of legal residents, especially lower income legal immigrants.

reply to dnoyeB

Mock McCain's POW injuries. Nice.

He doesn't use email because the beyond terrible injuries received during his POW incarceration preclude him from using a computer keyboard. He can only join his hands for very short periods of time. His injuries also prevent him from combing his hair and tying his shoes...you want to make fun of that too?

It's funny how the people who think McCain couldn't figure out broadband are the same group who think a guy with ZERO experience could be the chief executive of what amounts to be the world's largest business.

reply to Dogfather
As of this AM California is 1 billion in the red and the budget hasn't been in place for 30 days! Joe and JAne Taxpayer will get reamed form Federal and State tax increases and it will backrupt them and they'll lose their home (if they still have one)
The Golden state is golden because the homeownr/taxpayer is getting pissed on by every special interst group that would sell their mother for an extra 2 cents on the bottom line of their P & L statement.
Skee datl , I don't know you but you are soooo right on about Calivrnia politics.

reply to Dogfather
Listen...this looks to me as it's a follow up of the TCOM act of '96. Yes it's taken this freakin long.

"Efforts by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to measure the speed and quality of broadband deployment across the United States originated after Congress enacted of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Under section 706 of that Act, the FCC is required to conduct regular inquiries concerning the availability of advanced telecommunications capability and to determine whether advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion."

"Upon adopting a 200 kilobits per second (kbps) standard, the FCC concluded that such speed was `enough to provide the most popular forms of broadband--to change web pages as fast as one can flip through the pages of a book and to transmit full-motion video' and further noted that `as technologies evolve, the concept of broadband will evolve with it"

"Following adoption of a technical standard for broadband, the FCC followed up in 2000 with an order establishing rules to facilitate the collection of basic information from providers regarding the deployment of broadband services and to create a standardized form (FCC Form 477). 4"

"In establishing a regular and consistent survey of broadband deployment, the FCC emphasized the value of its approach noting that `only a comprehensively imposed, mandatory data collection effort will provide us with a set of data of uniform quality and reliability.'
In 2004, the Commission extended its data collection efforts for another 5 years and made certain improvements to the FCC Form 477 requirements which included collecting information about higher speed broadband connections offered by providers."

With that, couldn't you conclude that someones out there saying that the FCC dropped the ball, the telecommunication companies aren't complying, and maybe we should adopt some form of updated communications policy before we get technologically surpasssed by Uganda?
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The "Lifetime" channel is responsible for 83% of all divorces...Robert Ginty

reply to jimbo48
The biggest problem is any dumbass can get a bond proposition on the ballot and voters being the dumbasses they do equate bonds with free money.

These special interest groups like the teacher and firefighter unions then say the money is required otherwise no kid will get an education and every house will burn down. The governator tried to get gov't reform passed with his own propositions but the union spend tens of millions of duespayer dollars to defeat them. And we see what the result it...total collapse of the government despite record revenues.

reply to SilverSurfer1

Jimmy Carter > George W Bush

nuff said

Guess you didn't live during the Carter administration. Massive unemployment, massive inflation, gas lines, odd-even gas days, hostages in Iran...Bush as big a 'tard as he is doesn't hold a candle to Carter's abysmal failure.

Oh please. I sure did. But I imagine that ol W will fade like bean burrito fart in a church pew - unlike Carter, who continues to serve humanity in several good ways.

Not to mention the fact that we have the 20/20 hindsight rearview mirror of history to judge 'ol Jimmy's presidency on...I just can't wait to read what twenty/thirty years of time will do to W's "legacy". Maybe Karl Rove and Ken Lay can curate the W Museum of Failed Economic/Social Policies.

Yep, serving humanity by kissing the ass of terrorists. Good for him.

Re: There are no national broadband issues that need addressing

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