There's only one thing you REALLY need to know about it: The TVA was the source of much fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars. So was the REA.
Creating monopolies has resulted in highly inefficient business models for electricity, and there's only space in this game for "big corporations". Just think "Enron". Government thought it could build a pretend free market so it could have the benefits of a free market, but still control the game. Enron (and other scandals ) was the result. You can't "fake" a free market. You can only build a set of rules for creative types to use to "game" the system. You know, kind of how our regulators and certain government sponsored entities created a massive debt bubble that still threatens our nation. EVERY effort to do this will result in either extremely inefficient business models... Or massive fraud. We have paid a lot for this monopoly status, we're still paying for it, and it will continue to absorb our hard earned wealth at immoral rates until people stop thinking that "public" = righteous. There's always going to be excuses for those have an ideological belief in superiority of socialized services to advocate them with emotional appeals. There's just no reason for any person with an IQ above refrigerator temperature to fall for it. There is only one reason to advocate socialized services, and that's because there's political and partisan power to be derived from controlling essential services with political power. When the mob does it by intimidation, we call it criminal. When Congress does it, a certain number of people swoon in awe of their righteousness, while the rest of us recoil in disgust. There is, however, no actual difference between Congress controlling access to our needs and the mob doing it. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Webster" <bwebs...@wirelessmapping.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:42 AM To: "WISPA List" <wireless@wispa.org>; <memb...@wispa.org>; <motor...@afmug.com>; "WISPA Board Members List" <bo...@wispa.org> Subject: [WISPA] Broadband compared to electricity of the early 1900's > I have been of the thought process that Broadband needs to be compared to > electricity and telephone service expansion and deployments of the early > 1900's. Here is a nice article that draws a direct comparison to > electricity > (and municipal networks). Should be good food for though to all: > > The Killer App of 1900 <http://publicola.net/?p=20687> > by Glenn Fleishman <techn...@publicola.net>, 12/11/2009, 11:18 AM > > It’s instructional to look back 100 years, not long after the first > electrical generation plants were built to bring power to towns and > cities, > to assess the situation we find ourselves in with broadband availability > today. > > http://publicola.net/?p=20687 > > Thank You, > Brian Webster > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
