Reviews:
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| service provider? Business sucks, gov't sucks worse That is the problem with Karl's catty swipes at "Milton Friedman free marketeers".
It's not that businesses are great service providers.
It's that the utopian dreams of ownership "by the people, for the people" turn to crap when actually implemented.
There's some basic problems with the government running services.
-- Funding is at the whim of Congress or the state/local legislature. It can be raised or lowered arbitrarily.
-- Governments do not pay well, therefore do not attract the best people.
-- The people they do attract, even if gung-ho to start, are quickly demoralized by the byzantine bureaucracy of being a government employee, and by the fact that people who don't work hard are rewarded just as much as those who do.
-- There is no movitation to serve the customer. Government-run organizations inevitably turn inward and support their own needs rather than providing more service to customers.
-- There is no competitive drive. Government service providers can provide bad, costly service and there is no one to step in and fill the gap.
I simply ask you to remember your last visit to the DMV, or the police station (hopefully not as a perpetrator), or the airport security line. How did that customer service compare with going to your local supermarket or Best Buy or Wal-Mart?
Not to mention the incredibly poor, expensive product we get from the national elementary/high school education monopoly. There's a perfect example of an inward-looking, non-responsive group that howls in pain whenever anyone suggests even a hint of paying people for performance, or (God forbid) giving parents a choice in who gets their tax money. Those who can afford it simply pay their school taxes PLUS private school tuition.
This is what you have to look forward to if your utopian dreams of a government-run ISP monopoly come to fruition. |
decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN
kudos:1 Reviews:
 ·Verizon Broadban..
| All I know is that everyones precious flawless Bush's universal broadband by 2007 was such a hoax that it wasn't even funny to think about it.. I'm hoping that Barrack will hold on his statement on laying down broadband lines to every corner of everystate.. Someone has to have the balls to use tax money on something that god forbid, benefits tax payers... Not just rich already over paid CEO's... I'm tired of funding those F...ing bastards! |
