bush's "free market": US broadband technology way behind

[welshTerrier2]

it's no surprise that a bunch of oil cowboys don't understand the modern world of technology ... the US has been falling further and further behind other developed nations for the first time in our history ...

other countries have used government working with industry experts to plan their technology infrastructures ... in the US, we've allowed the "free market" to decide the best way to build our telecommunications ...

here are the results:

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/25/technology/25online.ready.html?

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It looked for a while as if the United States was firmly entrenched as the world's leader in Internet innovation. President Bill Clinton and Al Gore, his vice president, did much to encourage development of the country's technology infrastructure, writes Thomas Bleha in an article accessible on the Foreign Affairs magazine Web site (www.foreignaffairs.org).

From the 1960's until the day President Bush took office, he writes, "The United States led the world in Internet development."

No longer. The Bush administration's policies, or lack thereof, have since allowed Asia - Japan in particular - to not only catch up in the development and expansion of broadband and mobile phone technology, but to roundly pound us into the dirt. "The lag," he diplomatically asserts, "is arguably the result of the Bush administration's failure to make a priority of developing these networks." <skip>

The economy as a whole is at risk because of broadband shortcomings, says Charles H. Ferguson of the Brookings Institution (brookings.edu). Last year, he asserted in a book, "The Broadband Problem," that the United States might lose up to $1 trillion because of constraints on broadband deployment.
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[slor]

1. Is there any area where that dumb monkey...

has NOT caused a problem? Good grief America, force his ass OUT!

[FloridaPat]

2. Well, he exported computer jobs because that was good for the

economy. Anyone suprised? But we're leading the world on defense stuff and torture. And maybe in controlling most or all of the world's oil fields.

[patricia92243]

3. Gov. Dean talked about broadband when he in his prez campaign. He knew

how important it is for the US to keep up. I read in Time/Newsweek that there are some countries that will not do business with other countries that don't have broadband.

Just another way Bush is bring our country to it's knees.