| Glad not to be living in North America (any longer) My Cable (TV Provider) Deutsche Telekom, actually just lowered my bill € 5.00 a month. I now pay €80.00 a month for 50 mb/10 mb (unthrottled and unmetered) internet, flat rate telephone (even to the USA flat) and 100+ channels of TV. (Oh and lest I forget I get my Iphone plan €5 cheaper for quadruple play) I say it time and again, long live competition and a Government that is willing to slap a business around when it needs slapping. The European Union also just passed regulations that require Telcom/Cable operators to share their VDSL/Fibre Optic lines, making for even more competition and probably even lower prices.
I moved to the USA 28 years ago from Germany and was greeted by a land that was far ahead in technology, openess, acceptance, and freedom. Last year I moved back to Germany and was greeted by a land that is far ahead of the USA in technology, openess, acceptance and freedom. What has happened to the Country I once liked so much to be willing to leave my country of birth for?????? |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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| Can't say I disagree with you.
Everything here is now about Corporations and money. It's corrupted everything. Politics, religion, ethics, Government. It's really too bad.
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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 Titus PulloI came, I saw, I slept
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| said by KrK:Can't say I disagree with you. Everything here is now about Corporations and money. It's corrupted everything. Politics, religion, ethics, Government. It's really too bad. Yep. The irony is that the guy you may stand next to one day for help in some human line of despair may well be one of those who were wearing blinders and defending bad capitalism and the free market because they weren't paying attention to anything beyond what TV channel they watched and some internal ideology they couldn't shake.
Little good the irony does at that point. Maybe a chuckle. From us.
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