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
- From: John Scrivner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wireless@wispa.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Frannie Wellings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 8:50 PM Subject: [WISPA] [Fwd: Durbin introduces bill to encourage high speed internet access in rural areas] This is the US Senator in my district

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

2006-08-08 Thread John Scrivner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wireless@wispa.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Frannie Wellings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 8:50 PM Subject: [WISPA] [Fwd: Durbin introduces bill to encourage high speed internet access in rural areas] This is the US Senator in my district in Illinois. It looks

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

2006-08-07 Thread John Scrivner
This is the US Senator in my district in Illinois. It looks like he has been reading my emails maybe. :-) At least he is getting parts of what I have been saying. Scriv *DURBIN INTRODUCES BILL TO ENCOURAGE HIGH SPEED INTERNET ACCESS IN RURAL AREAS * Friday, August 4, 2006 [WASHINGTON, DC]

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