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 ·Callcentric
1 edit | Truth The RepubliCon party always beats on about capitalism and the free market, yet fails to grasp or accept that the cornerstone of the free market is competition; which drives the invisible hand.
Therefore, why is it that time and time again, their policies encourage monopolies and duopolies, which actually go against the free-market and are more akin to corporate fascism.
Of course, they excuse this with claiming it's survival of the fittest, failing to ever mention how their creed benefits the American consumer - it doesn't.
Common sense. 5 wireless carriers are better for the consumer than 2 alone. Sprint and Tmobile for example, do not have the spectrum or quality of spectrum to compete with these two incumbents, yet AT&T and VZ want even more. |
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 LinklistPremium
join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | How about looking at GOP platform |
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Re: Truth With LTE Advanced on the way, the FCC should free up a 100MHZ somewhere and allow communities to service their own.
Such bandwidth would allow full speed of well over 1GB/s and not face any of the shortfalls of community WIFI projects. |
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·Callcentric
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Re: How about looking at GOP platform First off, the GOP has consistently illustrated this election that their words mean nothing and that they are willing to lie through their teeth to get elected. It's like listening to Sudasky claim he's innocent.
Ironic to see the preamble on the first page, something every Republican seems to ignore. "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union".
Amazing how I do not see the words "shareholder, profiteer, superpack, CEO, Board, Wall-street, corporation, conglomerate, bankers, etc etc" in there; i.e. the Republican creed. |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to Linklist
How about YOU actually understanding what they REALLY mean? Seriously quit drinking the Kool-Aid. |
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dynodbPremium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN | TNR? Really, Karl? You're citing the partisans at TNR now?
All that's being proposed is that more of the spectrum be offered up for use via the fairest way to distribute it- by auction.
If the rural carriers need more bandwidth / spectrum, they only need buy it at the market rate.
Supply and demand- you've heard of the concept, no? |
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LinklistPremium
join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5
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Re: How about looking at GOP platform (Please avoid overly long quotes, thanks! -Mods)
That is the sum total in the GOP platform about the internet & telecom. All the dire predictions by commentators are what THEY READ in to these generalized statements. IOW, attacks based on little substance of what was written in the platform
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»www.mittromney.com/s/repeal-and-···bamacare
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Just another load of Bovine excrement. I've yet to see either party even remotely support their platforms. In reality, it's nothing but a get re-elected action list that makes the populace "think" they represent them. Lofty platitudes coming from the GOP dais is here today and gone tomorrow, same with the Dems. The nation wanted national security, we got the Patriot Act, Homeland security and countless other violations of our privacy. We have Presidents saying its legal to go to foreign countries and execute American citizens without a trial. We have wholesale sellout of the taxpayer to Big Money a la the bailout of the Banking thieves, continuation of the War machine, failure to protect our sovereign borders while sending our sons daughters, wives and husbands to die in foreign lands. I don't swallow the BS coming from either the Romney camp or the Obama camp because its just too hard to forget the past failures to deliver on promises. |
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| Looks like BBR jumped the shark Booooo. The ugly head of hyperpartisanship has reached BBR.
Clue stick time. BOTH parties want to sell off spectrum to the wireless companies.
Why do you think Obama is continuously harping about broadband?
Genachowski has been pushing for ending of OTA TV as we know it and selling the spectrum to wireless companies. Ever heard of the national broadband plan?
Genachowski aint no GOPer! He was Obama's best bud in Harvard Law School.
IT DOES NOT MATTER which party is in power. Whoever is in power will be dictated to by their telco masters. |
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Re: How about looking at GOP platform (please avoid long quotes!)
Says it all. Thanks for trolling for mitt...
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 juilinsandarTexas GoonerPremium
join:2000-07-17
San Benito, TX
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Re: Looks like BBR jumped the shark Agreed.
Verizon and AT&T will throw as much money as it takes to either party to get what they want, and for the most part it works.
Most regular consumers don't know, or understand, all that goes on with spectrum allotment anyway.
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slckusrPremium
join:2003-03-17
Maumee, OH
kudos:1 | It makes sense. Keep the rural areas ignorant to counter the big city voters. Easy access to the internet provides more knowledge with knowledge comes enlightenment. Keeping folks in the dark furthers both platforms agendas. |
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 firephotoFacts hurtPremium
join:2003-03-18
Brewster, WA | reply to slckusr
Re: It makes sense. said by slckusr:Keep the rural areas ignorant to counter the big city voters. Easy access to the internet provides more knowledge with knowledge comes enlightenment. Keeping folks in the dark furthers both platforms agendas.
Because rural people who make significantly less than urban people want to pay the same urban rates for equal or slower "LTE".
It's already happening too. The people who own the pipes are laying new fiber to mountaintops just to provide service for verizon or att and selling it has providing next gerneration broadband to rural users.
It's a load of overpriced and restricted crap.
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Re: How about looking at GOP platform So you're saying we should only pay attention to the political sales pitch but ignore decades of history for both parties? How convenient. |
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Re: Looks like BBR jumped the shark Whoever is in power will be dictated to by their telco masters. |
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LinklistPremium
join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | reply to Alex J
Re: How about looking at GOP platform said by Alex J :So you're saying we should only pay attention to the political sales pitch but ignore decades of history for both parties? How convenient.
No I am saying don't make up meanings in a document that isn't in the document. Which is exactly what a lot of bloggers are doing.
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»www.mittromney.com/s/repeal-and-···bamacare
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Re: It makes sense. Yep. One (and sometimes both) party in particular loves to cut education funding for the exact same reason. If people were able to think critically, they might stop and realize they're being fed a line of crap year after year after year. Especially at these conventions.
Look how much this article (which is really only saying that both parties are full of crap and ignoring the will of the public in exchange for telco cash) upsets all the little partisan droids and girls who insist it's full of vile lies and distortions. |
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