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Axe is right (I feel dizzy)
Here in UK we also hear a lot of this "It costs too much to provide a rural bus/rail/library/school bus/telephone/post office/bank/petrol station" etc etc ... it is very often a load of old ***** but sadly, the inevitable next step is that the "too expensive" service is axed (!).

There is a brief flurry of local newspaper coverage, 2 paragraph interviews with affected kids/parents/commuters etc, and then the service terminates and the affected communities are left forever the poorer as regards their quality of life, while the monied corporations who have just pulled the rug are free to direct their energies where they really wanted to put them all the time - not in providing a quality service for all, and for the better of the community, but at making the maximum possible profit for the minimum investment of time, money, effort or quality. Evidently the excuses are global - perhaps it's the tip of a vastly ill-conceived scheme to deprive rural regions of so many creature comforts that the disenchanted populace will be driven to move to the nearest big town or city, where they can be wired into the 24 hour consumer-fest that is the life-force of all profit-driven corporate entities.

Another sad reflection and indicator of the extent to which daily life is "owned" by for-profit, faceless corporations.
Posted by: jellyclock   Posted on: 04/28/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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WRONG city boy!  kd5auq | 04/27/04
Wrong point  Letophoro | 04/27/04
Univeral "broadband" service does subsidies.  kd5auq | 04/27/04
subsidizing luxuries  toadlife | 04/27/04
You don't see it because...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/28/04
Same whine, different year!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/27/04
Axe is right (I feel dizzy)  jellyclock | 04/28/04
jellyclock, this is one we see eye to eye on.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/28/04
Dont Understand just  ParadigmOdyssey | 04/27/04
Let the market do it's thing  toadlife | 04/27/04
Can I hear an AMEN  Squawkbox | 04/27/04
History says you are 100% dead wrong.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/28/04
Can't afford to wait.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/28/04
Your examples are not swaying me  toadlife | 04/28/04
Actually no.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/28/04
DirectTV  toadlife | 04/28/04
build a monopoly broadband service then unbundle it?  oldskool | 04/27/04
And yet, a monopoly service beats no service.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/28/04
Why is it . . . ?  James Dean_z | 04/28/04

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