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I hope you are joking or I misunderstood

"The campaign contribution trumps any competitive argument."

In essence this is a true statement on both sides of the political aisles. The democraps consists of a conglomeration of special interest groups with a single agenda of self. The republicruds like to hide under the mantle of free enterprise, national security, and self righteousness to insure their reelection. Both parites are disingenuous in the political beliefs. Sadly politics has moved from governing for the people, by the people to vote for me me me.

"Bush needs a single national ISP,"

There are instances where a single service provider is good. I would hate to see more than "compay" controlling air traffic for example. A single national ISP is not good. The lack of competion would cost the consumer and innovation would cease. The incentive to move beyond POTS to deliver service would be non-existant. Competition is good things.

"a single media channel - Fox."

Oh no not a single media outlet!!!! One of the unwritten laws in media is that if there is a single outlet they WILL gravitate to one side or the other of the koolaid drinkers. Even in the media there must be checks and balances. Sadly though ALL media outlets tend to follow what has been printed or will be printed in the New York Times.

I find it interesting that if you surf the news channels they are all formated in the same fashion. The top news item of the day down to the human interst story of the day. With a few exceptions if you flip channels at anytime during the broadcast you will see the same story on all channels the only thing that changes is the talking head delivering the drivel. Do a Goggle news search on any current issue and read the intros. They all say the same thing with the same wording (or very close), the same minimal amount of information and this is spanning up to and more than 250 news organizations.

Choice is good. Single entities are not. I am not ready for an Orwellian society yet. It is near but not here yet.

I say to both political parties, "May the fleas of a thousand sands infest their armpits." Then they may busy enough scratching to not make any more stupid laws that sooner or later end up harming us.

C ya I gotta get back to my cave.

Posted by: Squawkbox   Posted on: 07/09/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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