I am getting fat!! LOL!!!
-=vic
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From: "Jim Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Billy Bob'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Dustin Goodwin'"
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Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 1:20 AM
Subject: RE: [nycwireless] Municipal Broadband - Must read!
Billy Bob,
Let's see, GDP keeps on clicking at 3-4 % growth pretty much every year...
The same was true in 2005. Inflation practically non-existent. Unemployment
about as low as it's been ever in our history, Home ownership at an all time
high. State of the country is such that those who the U.S classifies as in
poverty often own televisions, phones, cars, and get food every day! Compare
that to some other countries. We've removed one of the most evil dictators
in history from power and in only 3 years that country, which has never
known a democratic tradition, has easily made more progress than our own
country in its first dozen years. We've done that, all the while suffering
lower casualty rates than any war we've ever had to fight. We've influenced
Libya to renounce its WMD program. We had a lot to do with freeing Lebanon
from Syria's grip. Very likley that Assad in Syria will fall this year....
After being attacked in 2001, our country's defense and security forces have
prevented all attempts since. I am not naïve enough to believe that al Queda
hasn't tried. Simultaneously we have set up a kill zone in Iraq where every
every month hundreds of terrorists from all over the world continue to
funnel in, while we continue to capture and kill them.
While our economy just keeps on humming, the economies of western Europe
continue to sputter.
So how exactly do you MEASURE a good economy?? Probably the greatest
problem facing Americans today is that we are getting FAT??
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Billy Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 11:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Dustin Goodwin'; 'nycwireless'
Subject: RE: [nycwireless] Municipal Broadband - Must read!
No... I'm not kidding. If you really believe that, then you
live in LaLa land.
Not only does our economy suck but so does our current state
of our country as a whole.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Henry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 10:58 AM
To: 'Billy Bob'; 'Dustin Goodwin'; 'nycwireless'
Subject: RE: [nycwireless] Municipal Broadband - Must read!
You're kidding, right? ;-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Billy Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 11:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Dustin Goodwin'; 'nycwireless'
> Subject: RE: [nycwireless] Municipal Broadband - Must read!
>
>
> "...we have the strongest economy in the world"...
>
> Where do you live??
>
> Certainly not here.
>
> Bruce
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim
> Henry
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 8:20 PM
> To: 'Dustin Goodwin'; 'nycwireless'
> Subject: RE: [nycwireless] Municipal Broadband - Must read!
>
> OK, guess I should have read the article first:-). No
thanks to govt.
> subsidized broadband. We already have too much of a
socialist load on
> our economy. The fact that we have less socialism than most other
> countries is probably the main reason that we have the strongest
> economy in the world,
> the envy of other nations. Just my two cents.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Dustin
> > Goodwin
> > Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:40 AM
> > To: nycwireless
> > Subject: [nycwireless] Municipal Broadband - Must read!
> >
> >
> > If you think you have a well developed theory on the why or
> why not of
> > the municipal broadband debate you must read this
article. Some of
> > the conclusions: The US is desperately behind in broaband
compared
> > to the rest the world. As for existing US broadband.We are paying
> > way too
> much for way
> > too little compared to the rest of the world.
> > US monopolies are have bloated the price of broadband and slowed
> > investment. Lack of Federal and State policy/programs/tax
> > breaks/incentives are mostly to blame.
> > As we learned during the electrification of the rural US free
> > enterprise is not the best system for bringing real low
> cost broadband
> > to everyone. If your municipality really wants to be on the
> broadband
> > grid and your expecting help from private telcos... your screwed.
> > Municipal broadband or the threat of municipal broadband has been
> > shown to encourage private sector investment. Most places
including
> > NYC should be shopping around for a municipal broadband
solution if
> > they expect their businesses to compete on a global level.
> > The US communication infrastructure is stagnating and the
> fixes will
> > come from a combination public policy *AND* private enterprise.
> >
> > *Let There Be Wi-Fi*
> > Broadband is the electricity of the 21st century-and much
of America
> > is being left in the dark.
> > http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0601.podesta.html
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