Re: [WISPA] [Fwd: Durbin introduces bill to encourage high speed internet access in rural areas]

2006-08-08 Thread Cliff Leboeuf
Travis, do you remember the term 'fuzzy math'? On 8/7/06 10:59 PM, Travis Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can someone explain to me how having broadband (instead of dial-up internet that EVERYONE can get) is going to create 61,000 jobs per year for the next 20 years? If it will

Re: [WISPA] [Fwd: Durbin introduces bill to encourage high speed internet access in rural areas]

2006-08-08 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, That all sounds great, but we won't all of a sudden need 61,000 new medical transcriptionists every year for 20 years. ;) Those people all had different jobs, or the same job somewhere else... so technically there wasn't a job created, there was a job moved. Travis Microserv Peter R.

Re: [WISPA] [Fwd: Durbin introduces bill to encourage high speed internet access in rural areas]

2006-08-08 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
I'm not nearly as impressed with this as you are John. Money to study the issue AND a task force? To study an issue that the senator has already laid out? That the fcc's broadband task force AND spectrum policy force have studied to death? bull. It's an election year scam. Naturally,

Re: [WISPA] [Fwd: Durbin introduces bill to encourage high speed internet access in rural areas]

2006-08-08 Thread John Scrivner
Replies below: Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: I'm not nearly as impressed with this as you are John. I never described this with the word impressed. I am never impressed that easily! :-) Money to study the issue AND a task force? To study an issue that the senator has

Re: [WISPA] [Fwd: Durbin introduces bill to encourage high speed internet access in rural areas]

2006-08-07 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, Can someone explain to me how having broadband (instead of dial-up internet that EVERYONE can get) is going to create 61,000 jobs per year for the next 20 years? If it will create jobs from people doing more online, then it will decrease jobs from the brick and mortar businesses going