>Have and have nots? When did broadband become a fundamental right? You are coming from a strange place. Broadband is not a fundamental right, but it is fundamental to the operation of a modern technological society. With crappy broadband the US falls further and further behind. If we want to maintain a high standard of living broadband is important. Widely available broadband is especially important now that we are facing increasing energy prices.
Of course, our present course is designed to shift wealth to a small minority and shove much of the current middle class under the poverty line. Crappy health care is part of that plan. So are manipulated energy prices. So is crappy broadband. Such a society has been described as "islands of opulence surrounded by squalor." You see lots of that in Latin America. We are now in the early stages in the US. Since the year 2000 we have been witnessing the rapid end of the American Era. It didn't have to happen. We can act to slow the process. Broadband is one part of it. Did anyone notice in my post on Swisscom that 1 CHF = $1. Wow! That hurts. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
