Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | reply to fiberguy
Re: We don't need to spend a couple of Billions on broadband 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. |
