MrRodgers
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Look, suffice it to know exactly what is really going on here. What we see in cable, video and the Internet is falling behind other advanced industrialized nations, is and was neither govt. policy or so-called leftist's desire to tax and regulate. What was necessary is on the books, regulations were/are there to ensure competition and what happened ? The same thing that always happens. Govt. was bribed, lied to or otherwise refused to act on existing codes and liability by the parties involved. I do not know the technology and don't care. What I do know is greed, avarice and the whole regime of wretched human nature in an unregulated capitalist society. For example, what better than to get $300,000/yr working for the industry in how to game the system or $90,000/yr as an enforcer of regulations negotiated to ensure competition and performance of the providers ? What better than to say we will have comp. in telecom, then to watch corrupt govt. acquiescence and see consolidation of markets, [its] share and prices skyrocket ? What better than say we will have comp. in Internet, broadband and video content then to see the various players and end users pay through the nose for it. When are the American people who even bother to think about and debate these issues going to realize, whether it is Obamacare, or fossil fuel energy, or health care in general, everything in America, is...all about the fucking money. Sports, land use, water now, ethanol, agric. banking, speculators (banking) war and war materiel, the MIComplex, moves to restrict competition from car sales to car rides, all of it, now becomes only right or left politically in direct proportion to their dependence on and serve the interests in, getting...more fucking money. America means business. America is a done deal. You live shorter lives than in other countries because of money. You work longer hours beyond quitting time and take billion$ less in vacation time, because of money. Capitalism is the holy grail of a search for more money in a forever, for-profit, rent-seeking society. It is unsustainable on about every level and we see the signs right before our eyes and do what ? Nothing. Bernie Sanders simply wants to truly yet legitimately regulate and more evenly tax business and labor and he's called a fucking communist. Ridiculous beyond the pale, so we get a racist, misogynist, neo-nazi, demagogue like Trump. America the beautiful.
< Message edited by MrRodgers -- 1/12/2016 1:54:18 PM >
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You can be a murderous tyrant and the world will remember you fondly but fuck one horse and you will be a horse fucker for all eternity. Catherine the Great Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. J K Galbraith
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