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

[David Hostetler]

Well, sarcasm doesn't translate well via email.  I agree with you that AT&T
and TWC should have more competition, but this is a slippery slope.  Let's
take a look at this.

The first thing you need is infrastructure to support your customers.  This,
obviously, is not inexpensive.  If the government stepped in and lets say
created monopoly laws that prevent these larger companies from restricting
in any way competitors from using the infrastructure in place.  Who would
put up the capital to put the infrastructure in place when they know that
someone can just come along and use what they put in?  Competitors should
need to lease the line, or put in their own infrastructure to compete.  I
would be ok with the government creating laws that prevent larger companies
from using all available space on poles to allow for competition.

Going back to your government has all the answers idea, I personally don't
want to pay for Bob down the street who can't keep a job for more than a
week to have internet access.  I promise you that the moment you start
giving things away for free that other people work hard for that the house
of cards will come down hard and fast.  You should read up on socialist /
communist governments and how they all implode before you suggest such silly
things.  Take a look at Greece, UK, Italy, and several others in Europe to
see how well the socialist idea is working out for them.  People will not
continue to work themselves to death for someone else to sit on their butt
all day and get all of the same benefits.  Like wise, 30-40% of the
population cannot work to support the other 60-70%, the money runs out at
some point.

P.S. Social Security is the biggest rip off I've ever seen.  Let me keep my
own money and invest it for my future.

----
Dave Hostetler
M: 919.333.0591
hostetler.david at gmail.com


On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:48 PM, bak <bak at picklefactory.org> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > ----
> > Dave Hostetler
> > M: 919.333.0591
> > hostetler.david at gmail.com <mailto:hostetler.david at gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > 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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