$200 Billion Rip-Off

Senator Kerry:

We have all already paid for the infrastructure improvements to our broadband services to the tune of $200 billion dollars for which we received… nothing.

See: The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen. by Robert X. Cringely at http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_002683.html

I would be highly surprised if anyone from Inside the Beltway would be willing to work towards getting us a refund of the money we’ve already paid, or failing that, at least getting the telecoms and cablecoms to keep their part of the agreement.

Are you going to hold their feet to the fire on that issue?

I didn’t think so.

[This is in regard to a guest blog post by Sen. John Kerry: Questions from Sen. Kerry: How Can We Connect America?, sent as a trackback. I tried to comment directly on the Save The Internet blog, but it’s apparently being moderated and somebody over there didn’t like my comment, so it wasn’t “approved”. Ironically, the preceding post (below this one), I was talking about the Kerry forums, where I used to post and do research to help his campaign, and it was his mouth my words came out of during those debates. Now I’m being shushed, I guess. Fighting the corporate monster is a never-ending fight.]