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

[David Hostetler]

Matt,


    I understand what you are saying.  I just don't think this bill is as
hideous as you think it is.  For one, it doesn't say that the city cannot
provide cheaper internet service, or internet service that people would see
as being a better deal.  I simply only seeks to prevent the government from
over stepping it's bounds.  You need to understand that a large majority of
the population of this country believes that people in power are trying to
move everything to centralized governmental control ( i.e. socialism ) and
this bill is a step to prevent it.  Beyond all of that, ask yourself one
important question.  Do you really think that Bev Perdue will sign this
bill?  I can almost promise you that she will not.  She has sided with the
far left many, many times, and I'm certain that this will be no different.
Truly, we are all getting worked up for no good reason.

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Dave Hostetler
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Matt Flyer <matt at noway2.thruhere.net>wrote:

> In actuality, I consider myself to be politically moderate.  It would
> probably surprise you that there are some very conservative measures
> that I agree with and some aggressively liberal ones that I support.
>
> For example, I whole heatedly support the concept of Bortz's Fair Tax.
> I think it has tremendous amount of value and makes a lot of sense.  I
> am opposed to gun control, which I believe was the founding fathers' way
> of putting a reset switch in the system.
>
> On the other hand, I think that insurance is absolutely the wrong
> financial model for health care.  In my estimation, insurance is
> something that you pay a small premium against the risk of a
> potentially, but usually unlikely event.  Health care is a cost not an
> unlikely event.  I don't believe that America uses an insurance model
> because of its merits.
>
> I do believe that there are some things that the public sector can do
> better than the private sector.  Providing services to the public and
> supporting infrastructure are two of them.   I believe that we need to
> effectively leverage the benefits of both of these.  If change means
> that some private company loses its livelihood so be it.  I do NOT
> believe that the pursuit of profit was either a deity or
> constitutionally given right.
>
> In this particular instance, I think this bill is just plain wrong. I
> see it as trying to solve a problem that does not presently exist.  I
> see it is an attempt by a certain interest group to ensure their future
> profitability at the expense of the people in general.
>
> I believe that the new CEO of Intel put it absolutely correct in a
> recent interview with NPR when he said that while America is on top with
> regards to technical innovation and productivity, we are heading in the
> wrong direction and unless we change course we won't be for very long.
> I believe that the attitudes and actions of Corporate America bears a
> very large portion of the blame for this, while the other aspect of it
> is a misguided populace.
>
> I believe spending billions on places like Iraq and Afghanistan and
> cutting funding for kindergarten and the mentally disabled while giving
> tax breaks to corporations is absolutely disgusting and disgraceful.
>
> I believe that the Republicans and their corporate backers have been
> abusing their position.  To me it looks like they are using their wealth
> to BUY a political system designed to further their financial interest
> regardless of the costs to others.  I see them supporting a joke of a
> school system because it furthers their interests.
>
> I see a political party using things like Gay Marriage and abortion, and
> "we will create jobs" as distractions to cause people to vote for them
> to further their own interests.
>
> I see a corporate controlled media that is designed to provide "the
> great distraction" (which IS meant as a reference to Hitler's great lie
> concept) and ensure that only their side gets heard.  I see them wanting
> to take away funding from programs like NPR which give a view other than
> the hate speech and rhetoric that dominates Republican media.
>
> I believe "trickle down" economics doesn't work.  Giving money to the
> wealthy or the corporations does not create jobs, except maybe in
> China.  They only horde it further.  If you put money at the bottom it
> works its way up because the guy at the bottom has no choice but to
> spend it.
>
> I believe that this country is on the brink of becoming a Fascist State
> with a ruling class: a modern day Monarchy if you will.
>
>
> On 03/16/2011 08:13 AM, David Hostetler wrote:
> > Well clearly the anti-bill folks here are really just socialist in
> > nature and nothing said to the contrary will be convincing enough.  OK
> > comrade Flyer, you must be right, all socialist theories are well and
> > good and even though capitalism has been shown through history to be
> > more stable your idea is definitely better....   Or you're being quite
> > foolish.
> >
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