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The power of the corporationIt just goes to the root cause of the problem. Corporations buy politicians. In the old days, the politicians worked for the voters. Today they don't even try and make the appearance of working for the voters, they do what the corporations tell them too do. Money corrupts, more money corrupts even more. To start, EVERY elected official should have a 2 term limit. Second, CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE, and should not be allowed to buy politicians. |
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Lobbying, Bribery.. Same thing as far as I'm concerned. |
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said by karlmarx:Corporations buy politicians said by karlmarx:CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE and Google is a corporation (wholly owned by Alphabet, a very large for profit corporation) therefore Google should not be allowed to buy the favor of politicians either. Right? good for goose and gander equally. |
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"The council generally functions as a parliamentary or congressional style legislative body, proposing bills, holding votes, and passing laws to help govern the city."
So, what makes AT&T think Nashville CC can't make these changes? City Manager involved in this at all? Who sunk the poles to start with and for whom? |
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Disregard... |
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said by karlmarx:CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE, and should not be allowed to buy politicians. No one should be allowed to buy a politician. IMO that's called bribery, and should be punishable by capital punishment. "Ok so judge how do you put the needle into a corporation?" |
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said by tc1uscg:Who sunk the poles to start with and for whom? And who gave the telco the money to help them do that? |
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I agree, except for the part about term limits. Many people have discovered that term limits don't help, and often make things even worse, because of the high cost of campaigning for office and the need to find ways to pay for it. » www.google.com/search?q= ··· nningham |
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Who decided to break up the phone company , if it would have stayed regulated everybody would have broadband . They would have been forced to reinvest 25% of their profits back into the infrastructure , like they used to . |
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Yep! Over in Missouri their Senator (R) Roy Blunt's wife and 3 sons are lobbyists and he states there is not a conflict of interest!!  |
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I'm not a huge supporter of AT&T or Comcast....buuuuut.
All the hand wringing about companies "buying" politicians is rich since this is a case of two side each trying to buy the middle.
AT&T may be trying to get a competitive advantage through legislation (or in this case, stopping legislation). But isn't Google doing the same thing? They are not the "good guy" in this deal.
Google comes off like a little crybaby bitch because they can't find a cost effective way to install their facilities under the same rules that everyone else was able to work with going back many years. Google wants a special exemption that their competitors never needed nor asked for.
They sound like a whiney high school student complaining that the test was unfair when he finds out he was the only kid in the class that flunked it.
Maybe Google just doesn't know what hell they are doing. |
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You are kidding right?
Who was there trying to stop AT&T and Comcast from running their cables (with tax payer incentives)?
Oh that's right, NOBODY. They got to do what they wanted and are now in control and trying to prohibit others from competing with them because they can. |
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ITS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY.
But unlike in times past, everything else takes a backseat. |
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Old Conservative Republicans are to blame. You also have the 1996 Telecom Act which backfired, and starting in around 1997 - 2000 or so it was only fitting for every other big company to buy another company out, therefore merging.
In 1983 no less than 50 companies owned 90 percent of all the mainstream media. Today only six companies own 90 percent. With that much leeway between those few it's obvious they are going to abuse their power and post misleading propaganda. |
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said by DarkLogix:said by tc1uscg:Who sunk the poles to start with and for whom? And who gave the telco the money to help them do that? Having worked for a large long distance and wireless provider, the money comes from it's customers and the part you want to hear, some might even come from the govt as some form of subsidy. But still, who approves the ability to operate within the city? Who gives the permits to establish a route or poles within said city? The fed's might give them money, but in the end, the city appears to be holding the cards.  |
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The majority of the politicans who support his typically have an R next to their name. Republicans don't have one single consumer policy in nearly 3 decades. |
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