  JakCrow
join:2001-12-06 Palo Alto, CA | reply to EAP Re: Non government funded muni-wide systems are OK
Oh yeah. The what? $9 billion the state of PA gave Verizon to supply...nothing! And allowed to keep the money in exchange for....nothing! Brilliant... |
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  Noah Vail Premium join:2004-12-10 Lorton, VA | reply to EAP Thanks, I'll read them.
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join:2000-01-15 Lafayette Hill, PA
| reply to Noah Vail How about this:
»www.savetheinternet.com/blog/200···-telcos/
Why would a Senator do this? Cause the big telcos buy them (ummm, I mean lobby). |
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join:2000-01-15 Lafayette Hill, PA
| reply to Noah Vail Yes I can.
How about this for starters:
»Picture Perfect Deal
This was done due to Verizon having the state politicians in their pocket.
And this:
»www.freepress.net/news/5593
They get special laws passed just for them. How bogus is that. They wine and dine the politicians (which is really bribing them) in exchange for laws just for them. |
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  Noah Vail Premium join:2004-12-10 Lorton, VA | reply to EAP Could you post some specific evidence of that? It's not that I'm doubting you, but it's all rhetoric until the proof arrives.
NV -- Abortion: Improves the Gene Pool! |
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join:2000-01-15 Lafayette Hill, PA
| reply to TKJunkMail What private ones. Verizon and the like receive so much support from the gov't via loop holes and regulations, etc. -- they might as well be an arm of the gov't.
These companies aren't "private" in the sense that your local dry cleaners is private. |
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