On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:14, Micheal Espinola Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > The government always looks (based on complaining of constituents) to step > in when an industry doesn't properly regulate itself - for better or for > worse, its happens. Its what government does.
But, the market *does* regulate itself - if it's given room to do so. In broadband, as in other market, it's government interference (in the form of subsidies and regulation) that is the problem. For broadband the real issue is that local/state governments are still allowed to declare monopoly/duopoly winners in a given market, or put up huge barriers to entry, or both. > I do not believe by any stretch that anyone advocating for socialism. Thats > a very extreme outlook as to why our government does what it invariably does > to "protect" its people. We're already at socialism, and have been since perhaps the 1920's - and if you look at the literal and metaphorical weight of regulation on this country, I don't think you can argue against it. Just to give you a very concrete sense of it: If you were to print all of the laws, rules and regulations that are in effect through both direct legislation and bureaucratic rule making (just at the Federal level now, not including the States - in however tiny a type size you want, yet still have it be human readable), you and any forklift you can buy today couldn't lift it. Throw in the State rules, and well... Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
