[TriLUG] OT: URGENT: H.129 to be heard in Thursday's Finance Committee!

[bak]

Your idea of supporting your argument is agreeing with me and asserting
something surely must happen in the future? :)

I mean my grandma gets her social security check every month, which
means that she can have a place to live and buy food, but I'm one of the
few people I know that can get U-verse, and the only reason I can afford
it is because I'm well-off.

In this day and age everyone who wants broadband Internet access and
isn't just destitute should be able to get it. It lets people
participate in 21st century society, get jobs and support themselves.

AT&T and TWC, the corporations involved, don't want to compete; they
want to promise as little as possible, take as much as possible, and
capture every regulator their money can buy, and H.129 is supporting
evidence.

--bak

On 3/15/11 2:39 PM, David Hostetler wrote:
> No, you're absolutely correct.  Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, the
> DMV, Highway systems, Police, Firefighters, Welfare..... All extremely
> efficient.  I don't know how long the people of Wilson have been
> enjoying their fibre network, but I'm guessing not long enough for the
> government to screw it up.
> 
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> 
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:52 PM, bak <bak at picklefactory.org
> <mailto:bak at picklefactory.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Hyperbole much?
> 
>     I guess you can say this, but people familiar with the broadband
>     situation in Wilson are not going to believe you unless your argument
>     deals with that as well, rather than just a totally unsupported
>     assertion that a priori no government can ever do anything efficiently.
> 
>     --bak
> 
>     On 3/15/11 1:06 PM, David Hostetler wrote:
>     > Not to mention, that there is not a single thing in history
>     > you can find that the government does efficiently,
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