FCC and the internet

[Douglas Pollard]

Michael Haney wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>   
>> Douglas Pollard wrote:
>>
>>
>>     
>>>     For the last fifty years the smaller manufacturers that have been
>>> making automotive parts have been waiting for the auto industry to fail
>>> so they can take over the the automobile market.    Guess what, it now
>>> belongs to  a bankrupt Government and the auto workers unions.   Guess
>>> what else they are both leftist organisations.
>>>       
>> What a crock.  You haven't noticed how your government has _no_ stake in
>> Ford, and not enough to have an effect in Chrysler or GM?  And the unions
>> (which I agree are leftist organizations, and proud of it, still have no
>> stake in the companies).  Massive infusions of capital to big corporations
>> are NOT a hallmark of leftist organizations.
>>
>> You've said more than enough.
>>
>>     
>
> Keeping big companies rich and in control of the market is one of the
> hallmarks of the Right-Wing Conservative view.  The Right is Pro-Big
> Business.  If you noticed, laws like the DMCA were passed by a GOP
> controlled government.
>
> The Left has the view that if a company is unwilling to adapt to a
> changing market and compete "fairly" in that market then it should be
> allowed to fail.  Companies have no right to run to the government
> crying for legislation that protects their failing business models if
> they aren't willing to adapt for a changing market.  Yes, I'm look at
> you HOLLYWOOD!
>
> The idea of our free market system is you do your best to be better
> than the other guy.  Provide better service, better products, make
> improvements and innovate, but for the past several years things have
> changed that.  What is Patentable has been changed to include things
> Patents were made for, and Copyright has been expanded beyond what it
> was originally intended to cover.  These two things are putting an
> extra stranglehold on our economy.  They give big business the power
> to legally stifle competitors, place controls on innovation that they
> don't want but consumers demand, and makes the products and services
> from those companies more expensive due to all of the legal overhead
> that now exists.  Big Industry created its own monster!
>
>   
  We have not had a President or Congress that represented the Right 
since Ronald Reagan.  The recent George Bush and the Congress spent 
like  drunken Democrats   and we Republicans voters decided to punish 
our republican Republican representatives for their volitions and help 
the Democrats install a now Congress and President. What a hell of a 
mistake that was. The republican congress had been scandalous in 
excepting money from lobbyists and the President signed thierbills. We 
racist  people on the right voted for Obama  and tipped the balance.  
Even many in the conservative Libertarian party voted for him. Don't 
think You democrats put him there by yourselves and the left certainly 
did not. The blue dog Democrates were taken in by him as well.   The 
Republican Party was forced to pay a price for their progressive like 
spending. Having been chastised by voters I think you will see a 
different breed of Republicans in office after the next Election.  Take 
a good look at the Tea Party Group that is growing by leaps and bounds 
and it is the public that is taking the leaders with them, not the other 
way around. Guess what there are democrats in that group.   We will in 
the United States be going back to our constitutional background and you 
had better believe the die is set.  We will save you from your own 
constitutional and social ignorance.
    All Democrats should look to Europe for Guidance.  They went the  
Democratic Socialist way  years ago and are now fighting their way back  
in Germany and France and to a lesser degree  in other countries. They 
have to, or they will become the little sisters of Eastern Europe, 
economically.  It was for seventy five years that the Soviet Union was 
pushing socialism. There is no one left to back it now.  Markel and the 
French leaders are now finding Obama too far to the left and much to 
their distaste these days. They have not hesitated to criticize him. I 
find it amazing that democrates don't even recognize that their 
progressive Liberal advocacy is in reality Socialism and in some cases 
of a far left breed.
    We are out of step with nearly the entire world.  Russia, China 
,India and a great deal of Europe shedding their own socialism in favor 
of the stronger Capitalism that provides better and more productive 
incomes for all.  Better educated Americans and better health care for 
us all will be the result of stronger capitalism.  You liberals think 
there is only a certain amount of wealth available and it should be 
divided up between those that work theirrear ends off and those that 
don't.   The truth is wealthy people create wealth and it lifts us all.  
When a man makes a billion dollars he can't hide it under the mattress. 
He has to invest it or inflation will eat it up. That provides jobs and 
wealth to all. OF course he can spend it all but that only creates a 
tiny bubble in the economy.    Paying it in taxes provides Government 
jobs that produce little and also only create a tiny bubble.
    The idea that the Government can create wealth is folly.  You take 
money out of the present or future economy and and put it back in again. 
Fat lot of good that does. It actually does damage because the worker 
that does not take his money home is less in his own eyes and in his 
wifes eyes.  He becomes a poorer and less enthusiastic worker.  A man 
who walks through his front door on payday with a pocket full of money 
comes in with his chest thrown out and feels himself the bull of the woods.
    Please don't reply with something like "thats a crock. Or a lot of 
crap."  Try  converting me over to your way of thinking by posting 
strong arguments that will prove me wrong, show me the error of my ways. 
                                                                        
                             Doug