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Is this a good idea for small towns & if not why?
Are you upset this was paid for with some of your tax dollars rather than private industry? | |
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 |  Warez_ZealotRural land of the rising sun join:2006-04-19 japan | Re: Thats Cool! Isnt that the purpose of taxes? It's suppoesd to go back into the comunity, not companies and politicians. and $500 000 of tax money is nothing compared to what is stolen in defence and disaster relief funds (paid by tax payers). | |
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 |  |  | | Re: Thats Cool! And therefore its the federal governments responsibility to provide this???!!!! How about all those who don't have a car too, have the feds give them one since "private industry" (read car dealerships) won't provide one for them. Oh and make mine a Mercedes while you're at it. Since the feds are paying for it I might as well drive in style.
What a BS argument. | |
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 |  |  |  MattAll noise, no signal.Premium join:2003-07-20 Jamestown, NC kudos:12 | Re: Thats Cool! said by Jamuka:And therefore its the federal governments responsibility to provide this???!!!! How about all those who don't have a car too, have the feds give them one since "private industry" (read car dealerships) won't provide one for them. Oh and make mine a Mercedes while you're at it. Since the feds are paying for it I might as well drive in style. What a BS argument. At least people can go to a car dealership and BUY a car if they want. It's not like these folks have broadband available to them but just don't want to pay for it.
I for one am glad to see my tax dollars FINALLY being used for something worthy of the 1/3rd of my salary taken from me each month. -- I have tried to see things from your point of view, but no matter how hard I try, or what I do, I just can't get my head that far up my ass. | |
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They did, its called mass transit. -- Mass Transit Sucks! | |
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However, the federal government provides grants to cities based on polution control efforts. Mass transit is a big deal for getting federal grants.
If it werent for federal grants, my local transit would not exist. | |
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Seriously though, take Alaska and split it down the middle (for you folks with small minds, the same distance in comparison would be from Colorado to California). Everything on the left hand side has no fibre infrastructure, no highways. Everything is done over sat connections, boats and airplanes are the mode of long distance transportation. The right side has the road and data infrastructure. | |
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How bout "we" give "you" back to Russia?  | |
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 |  |  |  BF69Premium join:2004-07-28 Camden, TN | said by Jamuka:And therefore its the federal governments responsibility to provide this???!!!! How about all those who don't have a car too, have the feds give them one since "private industry" (read car dealerships) won't provide one for them. Oh and make mine a Mercedes while you're at it. Since the feds are paying for it I might as well drive in style. What a BS argument. What do you think the USF fee you pay evey month on your phone bill is going for? If they aren't going to use it I would like that money back.
I'm 100% posistive that you local town/city gets federal dollars for questionable projects and I doubt you have any issue with those wasted tax dollars. | |
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The federal govenment gives grants of money all the time for such things as roads, bridges, etc. It's what federal programs are for and it's what's supposed to happen with tax money coming backi to states and municipalities.
I'm delighted to see that this town took the initiative and partnered with the local phone co op to get this done. There are, I'm sure, many other towns that could do this very same thing, instead of whining about franchise money and dicking with/around the telcos and cablecos.
If more towns like this and larger took the initiative it would take the bargaining wind out of the incumbents sails and they'd quit dicking us around. | |
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 |  |  |  ThrowDemsOutIf you can't convince 'em, confuse 'emPremium join:2002-03-03 Mullica Hill, NJ kudos:4 | Re: Thats Cool! said by Fatal Vector:The federal govenment gives grants of money all the time for such things as roads, bridges, etc. It's what federal programs are for and it's what's supposed to happen with tax money coming backi to states and municipalities. Well, the problem I have with that $585,000 federal grant that they gave back to the local community is that they probably had to collect $750,000(I'm being conservative here) to fund all the federal bureaucratic slugs that sucked out the difference to manage the program. Multiply this 1 billion times and that is why the federal government should stay out of state and local funding. The Feds should stick to national defense and international political relations and stay out of everything else. -- -- Join Red Room Forum BLOG tkjunkmail.blogspot.com My Web Page | |
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We'll today we all seen in the news what happens when 1 person tries to play King, They step down or threaten to get fired by the Queen. | |
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We'll today we all seen in the news what happens when 1 person tries to play King, They step down or threaten to get fired by the Queen."
You liberals just cant see anything through your hate, can you? Youll take any opportunity to repeat this stupid stuff and you dont seem to realize that it just makes YOU look stupid.
I'm not going to be redundant here about Iraq or this revenge idiocy, because it obviously has failed to penetrate.
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I have read the entire US Constitution, and I cannot find a single passage in it authorizing the federal government to do this. The only thing that applies to this is an implicit ban against it in the 10th ammendment, which would make this a gross misappropriation of funds and an indication of massive corruption in the federal government. I am not surprised. The Democratic party started this back in 1932 with FDR and it continues to this day. The Department of Agriculture was established under FDR. It was intended to supply the US troops in Europe with food, a time during which it was Constitutional because it coordinated logistics for the military. After the war, it was no longer necessary, yet it stayed in the federal government, taking on roles other than logistics for the military and therefore becoming Unconstitutional. It should be dismantled, and if anyone wants to take a stab at President Bush, his failure to dismantle the Department of Agriculture is one of the best ways to do it. Grilling him over his failure to dismantle The Department of Education (school subsides like NCLB, loans, paying property taxes to local and state governments on property taken by eminent domain, etcetera; all in violation of the 10th ammendment and therefore unconstitutional), Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are other ways to take a stab at him. | |
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| Re: Thats Cool! But its ok to take money and blow the head off some infants in Iraq right? Or how about using our tax money to support Israel or free health and schooling care for 15,000,000 illegal aliens. Or even better yet, take the army out of Afghanistan where UBL and the Taliban are and send them to Iraq where noting is but oil and at the same time keep yelling 9/11 every chance you get.
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I would live in the sticks, if I could find work there. If I were a telcom/network tech I would love to live someplace like this.
My home was rural when we moved there. The housing boom fixed that. Now, instead of having 1000 or so "fellow townfolk" I have 10,500 self important jerks who seem to think giving you the finger is the way to say howdy neighbor. -- Never ask what sort of a computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? -Tom Clancy | |
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As I said before, if the Telco's or the cable companies refuse to wire a town cause it's not in there best interests, then the town should have other alternatives left to them. | |
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But bringing fiber to these towns, blended with telecommuting, will hopefully disperse some of the population and industry in the country. I believe rural America will be the place to be over the next 20 years. | |
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And given the mail order-ability of everything, living out of the way is a lot easier than it used to be.
I think I'm one step closer to selling my "suburban" house and moving outward.
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I think we are at a similar point in our history as in the 50s and 60s when the telephone companies converted from the old magneto systems and steel wire to steppers and copper. Now we are moving to soft switches and fiber. Progress!!! | |
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We do not do PPPoE and we are doing both RF overlay and IPTV for cable service. Verizon is doing BPON and is desperately looking to make a break into GPON from my understanding so like many small telcos we are way ahead of their curve.
I have a friend who operates s similar sized company in Rochester, IN and they expect to be 100% FTTP in the next few years. They call it "Fiber to the Edge of the World." | |
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Every taxpayer in this country just financed an urban fiber project for a small town at a cost of $1349.43 per resident. Welcome to the united socialist states of amerika folks, where the latest handout is now fiber optic networks. What is even worse is the sheeple from this board think this is great. No wonder our "freedom" continues to erode.
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 | | Small Town Living Shoot, I'd live in a small town in a heart beat! But, like one of you guys mentioned, it's the infrastructure that keeps me in the suburbs. I'm not a city slicker, but I like having the comforts of city living close by. If small towns could keep their on par with suburban towns, I wouldn't bat an eye about living in rural america. And no, you're not an idiot if you live in a small town. | |
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I am not seeing the problem here. If there is a problem, there are other much larger problems that deserve citizens' attention first. E.g., the Iraq war is above $300 billion »nationalpriorities.org/index.php···emid=182 (~$1000 / citizen or 500,000 times the cost/citizen of the federal grant to Nickelsville, VA) | |
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 | | Roll Out the (Congressional Pork) Barrel Pokka Wonder why we have trillions in federal debt, it is pork barrel spending not Defense spending. Nickelsville Fiber Optic Network is the broadband version of a Bridge to Nowhere. The money is just seed money and I suspect the actual cost is larger. In addition, if larger cities of Tacoma Washington and Ashland Oregon have difficulty in paying for the fiber network how can a town of 435 do it. We the tax payers will be on the hook for a lot more for broadband to the sticks. Also the rational of economic development is classic broken window fallacy. | |
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Again I ask:
Just WHAT, do you think, is all the Universal Service Fund money being collected for? Wasn't it stuff like this? | |
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Don't forget that people in rural areas also pay taxes, so what we paid has helped you as well. It's a two way street, not just from the city to the rural areas, but both ways! | |
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Ok they used some federal funds. Good for them.
We should copy them.
Verizon and Bells will gouge us. You watch.
This Net neutrality bullsh** that they are pulling over us is part of the conspiracy. Yes, I said it. | |
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 |  elios join:2005-11-15 Springfield, MO | Re: government should have no part in this. and like said else were you all are just jealous of this
id be 10 bucks if your town but fed loan were to roll out FTTP you would be all over it
dont like you dont have FTTP bring it up a town meeting most places still have them a few times a year | |
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 | | grr... I'd have to say no I don't agree with my tax dollars going to this.
No where is it written that anyone, myself included, is entitled to broadband. If these people in rural areas want it so damn bad then move. End of story. If you can't be patient enough and wait for it to get there then move.
I live in a rural area and all I ever hear about is if "we're getting broadband". No! You're not getting broadband because you live in an under-populated/low income area. If people want "high-speed" so badly then fix your school systems, fix your local governments, and fix your economy first. Don't waste tax payer money on a luxury you hardly even know how to use. | |
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The bottom line fact is that they were paying attention, saw that the grant was available and applied for it. The rest was supplied by the co op.
It's easy to say things like fix your economy first when YOU aren't the one that has to actually do it. Many of these small towns are off the beaten path and dont have much to lure commerce.
But they ARE taxpayers, just like you7, and are just as entitled to their share when they can get it, it's just as simple as that. | |
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And you were doing so well in the reasoned debate before you felt it necessary to cast aspersions and, not even logical aspersions at that. | |
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