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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | reply to Jack00
Re: We don't need to spend a couple of Billions on broadband said by Jack00 :
OK then, war is war, I really don't care, but why is is SO hard to find money for our, the US, infrastructure, healthcare, jobs, BROADBAND!!!, etc... while most democracies can find such money easily without raising taxes. We can easily find money for pork spending, and the military and corrupt people who overcharges, and steals our tax dollar.
Broadband, bud, is not something that should be handled by the federal government. Was telephone? Power? Water? ANY utility? Seriously.. Government need not spend one shiny dime on broadband. However, their job IS to ensure that the providers that DO build broadband, do it as we the people want it done.. with in regulation, and programs. They operate at the privilege of the people, however, they themselves have rights too.
Health care.. we're already spending $440 billion a year on medicare alone in 2007. Again, it's not government's job to spend on health care. HOWEVER, there are things the government can do to ENCOURAGE savings on health care spending. (And I say THAT lightly) More over sight would be one. Second, the people themselves need to own up and take part in this too. There is a reason why so many people NEED health care, yet they don't want to own up to it. For one, a little less broadband maybe? Stop eating such crappy food? STOP SMOKING! - there's nothing good about it. Cut back on the drinks, eat healthy, exercise more, and so on. But, American's enjoy their vices and refuse to give them up. Obesity is one of the largest expenses in health care today and could be EASILY treated at the personal level.
Jobs. Show me one point in time where government spending ever spurred the economy.. and I'll show you how this very method killed the economy back in the 20's to 1943 after the war. Government spending will not create jobs in this country other than bigger government. Bigger government means more taxes which harms people. Show me one point where higher taxes did the people good.. and I'll show you why we left England years ago in search of a new country.
Infrastructure! Now you're on to something! Yes.. there needs to be more spending there on this I agree with you.
Out government isn't "finding money".. they are printing monopoly money; good for nothing, further devaluing the dollar. Moving off the gold standard was the worse thing this country ever did.
You let this country operate the way it's suppose to, put back protections and oversight in place that was stripped by Bush 1, Clinton, and especially Bush 2, and maybe this country will start to flow again. | | |
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Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | Actually fibreguy yes the Federal Government was involved in telephone, water, and electricity. The easiest to point to is the REA (rural electric association), the telephone was brought out to those same areas by small local companies with government backed loans (later ate up by ATT), water lines were not brought into many areas until the late 1970s (again government backed). How much more expensive would your food be if the government had not made those investments? There is a reason that(relative to most other countries) we spend so little on food.
As far as the health care; compare the AVERAGE persons health care in the US to almost any other industrialized nation. Yes, for the rich there is some of the best health care in the world available in the US, but for the average guy it is not nearly as good as in other countries. | |
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The US is ranked 37th in the world for healthcare. We're ranked right after Slobovia. How does the US rank 37 when we spend more on health care than any other country in the world? Because we aren't getting what were paying for. The US can't provide the most basic necessity "health care" to its own citizens (by either free enterprise or by the government), at a resonable cost. You are right about staying healthy, because if you get sick in America, your screwed. Sad, but true.
PS, If the US can't even provide healthcare, obviously there isn't any chance it's going to provide 1Gbps of internet service. | |
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