The Regressives Continue Their Attacks.

[toddwv]

It's amazing to read the rapidity at which the American right-wing is trying to take the US towards 3rd world nation status. As other countries are continuing to invest in their infrastructure, we let ours crumble as the right hopes that finally people will just wave the white flag and hand all public assets over to multinat corporations to exploit properly.

Case in point,

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/02/telecom-funded-north-carolina/

Telecom-Funded North Carolina House Votes To Gut Cheap And Fast Public Broadband
The mantra of the modern conservative movement in the United States is that the government isn’t capable of doing anything as well as the private sector. This idea is constantly perpetuated among conservative intelligentsia and as a rallying cry by conservative politicians.

Yet conservative ideology can’t explain the success of Wilson, North Carolina’s, Greenlight fiber optic broadband service. In 2008, Wilson decided that all of its residents deserve access to affordable broadband service and shouldn’t have to put up with a private monopoly. So it established its own broadband service called Greenlight, which offered speeds more than twice as fast as private competitors for a similar price. Soon, Greenlight’s success spread, as several other municipalities in the state started their own public broadband services, giving residents a public option that was cheaper and more effective than the private monopolies.

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Broadband in the US is far behind many countries at this point. Sure we have more people spread out over wide areas to connect but it makes it doubly difficult when the enemies from within attack anything that looks like progress.

It's sickening, frightening and a bit disheartening. When will the American People wake up and see what is happening? Will it be too late?