The same Democrats whose restrictive anti-corporate policies have devastated Internet growth in the last few years are now saying that they’re going to make sure every American has access to broadband Internet in five years according to Nancy Pelosi, the Wicked Witch of the House (that should be her official title). Aside from being a silly promise she can’t keep, which is not an unimportant fact, Pelosi suggests that broadband is a “guarantee” and the government should make sure it happens for all Americans. I must’ve missed that right the last time I read the Bill of Rights. This is yet another clear-cut example of out-of-touch people trying to legislate about technology. They’ll honestly be shocked when the blogging community blasts them.
What should this say to Internet evangelists and tech capitalists? Watch your back!
We tech guys are capitalists, and the most terrifying thing in the world should be government control of the Internet.
In another clear-cut case of Pelosi and the Democrats not having a clue how big-boy economics works, Pelosi said, “I was told that an entry level person at Wal-Mart, who works his or her entire career at Wal-Mart, would make as much as the CEO makes in two weeks. A lifetime of work versus two weeks in the executive suite — this is not America, this is not fairness, this is not the basis of a strong middle class that is essential for our democracy. We must change that in our country,” she said.”
Of course, Nancy. Capitalism must not be working. You sure haven’t benefited from it, have you? Oh, wait… you have. You’re a hypocrite!
The idea that the government needs to be involved in wages is terrifying. What reason is there for advancement and innovation if the end result is the Democrats taking it all away, “for the common good”? What a Marxist piece of crap. The Democrats won’t stop until they kill the Internet because its capitalistic, open and free nature contradicts the socialist agenda they have been pursuing with the help of trained, brainwashed media elite for 50 years. They cannot allow it to continue to allow free dialog and worldwide capitalism, lest their socialist empire fall. Pelosi and her cohorts want to beat us to control of the Internet, so they might plot its destruction.