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

matt at noway2.thruhere.net matt at noway2.thruhere.net
Tue Mar 15 15:44:31 EDT 2011


> 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?

This is why the concept of a regulated monopoly was created. 
Unfortunately thanks to some bright ones in congress we have a system of
unregulated monopolies.  Yeah, sure free markets and competition.  The
thing is they only work when you have indistinguishable products.

> 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.

This is not what is being discussed or proposed.  What is at odds is
whether or not the govt should be allowed to compete in this market.  I
will hazard a guess that the vast majority of the costs associated with an
ISP are fixed infrastructure costs.  If you distribute this around to all
of the residents of a community everyone will pay less.

I also don't want to work my ass off so some idiot can fly around in a
private jet making 300x my salary off my labors either!

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.

Well, good old American Capitalism has really been working a treat too. 
Our school systems are a joke even compared 3rd world nations, our health
care is the most expensive in the world for average at best results, our
existing infrastructure hasn't been updated in > 40 years and all the jobs
have shipped to communist nations.  Of course we have the best damned
stadiums in the world and we pay a bunch of school flunkies billions to
run around chasing balls.

> 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.
>
Invest?  I would LOVE to see INVESTMENT.  I keep hearing "investors this"
and "investors that".  I haven't seen INVESTMENT in over a decade.  All I
see is betting and speculation in the stock market.  F'ing day-traders but
NO investors.  You put your funds in there and some trader makes it go up
and down, sucking your money off in the process.  I will take my social
security, thank you very much - and give me some socialized medicine while
your at it.  You can have your health insurance.



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