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Gay agenda California Democrat legislators are intimidating Archbishop Cordileone over. teacher reforms. Independence of Church and State?.
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The Parasite Economy: Crony Unionists, Crony Capitalists, Oh My!
FCC Votes 3 (Dems) - 2 To Impose Title II Net Neutrality Rules: Thumbs DOWN!
Familiar readers may notice that the Wheeler/Don't Break the Net gadget that has overlaid the top right corner of my blog page is no longer there. This doesn't mean that I've given up the fight; the FCC has a recent 0-2 record, and if you read Sen. Lee's related discussion below, you'll understand why I believe the FCC has exceeded its authority and will be reversed in court again.
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(Cato Institute). What is net neutrality, and why do people on the internet seem to get so upset about it?
I'd go for complete deregulation of telecommunications but as long as they operate like oligopolies I'll settle for net neutrality.
Too many economically clueless Statists in this thread. We don't need government incompetents looking for a problem to solve and freezing innovation in the sector. Netflix notoriously accused ISP's of throttling their content when it turned out the problems where with Netflix's backbone providers to ISP's. We have an increasingly competitive Internet marketplace--cable, wireless, satellite, landline, dark fiber, etc. Reason has a recent post where it shows nearly half of Americans have access to at least 3 vendors offering at least 10Mpbs and another third with 2 (much higher percentages at lower speeds.) We have vastly faster download speeds, more capacity, etc. None of this involved an iota of Statist rule-making.
(Sen. Mike Lee). Earlier today three of the five unelected, politically appointed bureaucrats who currently sit as commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission voted to grant themselves and their agency the power to regulate the Internet – its millions of American users and trillions of dollars in economic activity – with the same antiquated rules designed for the monopolistic landline telephone industry in the 20th century.
This unprecedented move by the FCC is not only an egregious seizure of regulatory power and a clear violation of the 1996 Communications Act, which wisely prohibits the federal government from regulating broadband Internet services. It also begins in earnest the slow, suffocating, inevitable demise of the Internet as we know it today — the open and expansive universe and source of information, innovation, entertainment, and communication. What was previously bound only by the limits of the our imagination and the frontiers of our technology will now be suffocated by Washington bureaucrats, whose action today will benefit not internet consumers, entrepreneurs, and innovators, but the well-connected special interests that stand to profit from the diminished competition that invariably follows heavy-handed government regulation.
The Internet has been one of the most productive and innovative sectors of our economy, flourishing even as the rest of our economy sputtered, precisely because it has been open and free of exactly this kind of government regulation. Today the FCC made clear that it has no interest in governing within the authority given to it by Congress and that it is eager to discard the objectivity that is expected of an independent, non-partisan agency, in favor of rank partisanship carried out on behalf of our imperious president. This being the case, Congress now has an obligation to reassess the proper role – if any – of the FCC and to determine whether it does more harm than good in a 21st century world.
Abolish the FCC; it is an anachronism.
(Ron Paul). Internet, RIP?
by Ron Paul
Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a non-elected federal government agency, voted three-to-two to reclassify broadband Internet as a common carrier service under Title II of the Communications Act. This means that – without the vote of Congress, the peoples’ branch of government – a federal agency now claims the power to regulate the Internet. I am surprised that even among civil liberties groups some claim the federal government increasing regulation of the Internet somehow increases our freedom and liberty.
The truth is very different. The adoption of these FCC rules on the Internet represents the largest regulatory power grab in recent history. The FCC’s newly adopted rule takes the most dynamic means of communication and imposes the regulatory structure designed for public utilities. Federal regulation could also open the door to de facto censorship of ideas perceived as threatening to the political class – ideas like the troops should be brought home, the PATRIOT Act should be repealed, military spending and corporate welfare should be cut, and the Federal Reserve should be audited and ended.
The one bright spot in this otherwise disastrous move is that federal regulations making it more difficult to use the Internet will cause more Americans to join our movement for liberty, peace, and prosperity. The federal government should keep its hands off of the Internet!
[commenter] doesn't know what 'corporatism' is. Ron Paul most definitely opposes corporatism. Check out Paul's essay (vs. socialism) on Lew Rockwell's website. Corporatism is what DiLorenzo calls 'economic fascism'. In short, you can have a private company so long as you capitulate to the State. This is what Paul means when he says businesses are nominally in private hands. But the whores are the government, not the businesses. which unlike government have no ability to compel you to transact.
(Reason). Government policies that transfer cash from the relatively young and poor to the relatively old and wealthy are the real scandal.
Cut the bullshit. The only problem with Social Security is that Congress does not want to repay that which it has borrowed from it, for two illegal wars and THEIR lifetime retirement pensions.
Okay, I haven't read each comment to see whether other people got it. But by law, the social security reserves are required to purchase federal debt--and if you look at the cost drivers of the budget, it's the mandatory spending, including senior entitlements and Medicaid. Arguing it's the wars is ridiculous; government resources are fungible, and we have unfunded liabilities for senior entitlements roughly $41T, well over twice GDP. This is largely the result of two factors: the oversized Baby Boomer generation and longer lifespans in retirement. We are going to have to radically transform these programs to make them sustainable.
(Cato Institute). "The political differences between immigrants and native-born Americans are small and, in most cases, so small that they are statistically insignificant. In the cases where the differences are significant, the descendants of immigrants rapidly assimilate into America’s political culture by adopting mainstream ideologies, political party identifications, and policy positions held by longer-settled Americans. The policy and political views of immigrants and their descendants are mostly indistinguishable from Americans whose families have been here for at least four generations."
If they are assimilating, how come it sounds like Mexico city when I go to the laundramat in WV???? They don't speak English!!
Only paranoid morons feel threatened by people who communicate in other languages. If you are feeling left out, learn a second language. I'm a fourth-generation Franco-American, and French was my first language when I entered an English-only kindergarten. A slow start, but I picked up English in no time (my folks also stopped speaking French at home). All prior generations were bilingual. In 1995 I worked in Brazil for a few months. Although my client workers in a Citibank subsidiary had to speak English, most of the restaurant workers, cab drivers, etc. didn't--and I picked up enough Portuguese to get by (I also gained a few pounds down there, i.e., I didn't starve).
(Reason). What increased regulation almost always does is freeze into place existing structures and business models.
So long as that means the internet remains an equal playing field for users and not a cash cow for the rapacious then that's fine.
Only Statist retards like the OP could not be alarmed at pushing-on-a-string federal oversight on an industry that has exploded with innovation, size and scope since government privatization in the 1990's.
(Reason). In a 3-2 vote today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to radically overhaul the way Internet service is regulated.
Anyone thinking that the government, which has trouble handling its own infrastructure, won't stifle the dynamic information technology sector is a poor student of history and in a state of denial. The fascists have won the day, but what they did was unconstitutional; it's just a matter of time before the courts slap them down. The intentional lack of transparency in and of itself is a violation of professional ethics.
(IPI). Claudia has been selling food out of her cart for 11 years, at one point employing as many as 12 people while earning money to put her kids through college. Many of her customers are factory and construction workers looking for affordable lunch options on the job, and Claudia's food provides much-needed sustenance.
Unfortunately, Claudia's business is illegal, because Chicago bans street vending.
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As a native Texan, I love and miss my Tex-Mex cuisine. If I still lived in the Chicago area, I would go and buy two dozen of her delicious tamales. People like Claudia make America great; I wish there were millions more just like her. Isn't it time that Chicago moved into the modern age? Restrictions on food trucks or carts are anti-consumer and anti-competitive.
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