 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| All our Government knows how to do is take money ... and hand it to Corporations. And I'm not talking about small Corporations and local small businesses, but large, often Multinational Corporations.
They tax the people and then give it large companies. It's a joke. Look at Healthcare. Look at Telecom, including this proposal. Look at the vast amount of Agri-Business, and look at our Energy policy.
So, it looks like the plan is "Everyone should have access to broadband." Noble goal. Now the fun part "We'll use USF to pay for it."
SO Result is: The people pay this tax (Fee, but essentially a tax) which is then given over to Mega-Com Telecommunications Co to build out a nationwide network of broadband. Which they then OWN (note: We pay for it, they build it and own it) and then because they OWN it they CONTROL it and say "It's our pipes, we will decide how they are used."
This is a massive joke. This proposal for far does nothing to address the real issues, which are the lack of communication competition and real choices for broadband.
In one fail swoop, we hand the Nation over to a future monopoly duopoly type system that will hold us back for DECADES. At the same time, we give them the means to control any competition from Internet IP streaming third parties because they "own" the pipe, so they can Cap, overage, throttle, filter "For network management purposes".
Why is it our Government can't do anything bold and provide leadership in any field anymore? Our politicians trip over themselves to hand the people's money away. It's such a waste, and we *ALL* get screwed for the benefit of a select few.
Question: Who gives a damn if every household in America has "broadband" access if it's capped, metered and overaged to death so you can't actually use it for much.
We're setting up a system where all our communications and entertainment is owned and fed to us by 2-3 large companies who control how we use it, when we use it, and how much we'll pay for it, and our "choices" will be to hand over our money and STFU.
Bah! Humbug.
--
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
|
