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Brad, You are misunderstanding or ignoring what I've been saying so let's try it again. When you have more people crowded into the same space your are going to have more frequent and more complex problems, including more fighting over the available amount of resources. Like it or not, attempting to maintain order is expected of government, be it large or small government. A two-person police force is expected to be able to maintain order in a tiny community and a 10,000 person police force is expected to be able to maintain order in a large city. A two-person (small government) police force will not be able to maintain order in New York or Los Angeles. "Socialism" (however that is defined or mis-defined) has nothing to do with this basic dynamic. America was built by hard-working people who thrived within the limited government framework that the founding fathers provided. Unfortunately today, 99% of the working people have lost or given up their power to govern their own lives. That power now resides in the hands of large corporations (banks, factory farms, seed companies, meat processors, insurance companies, news networks, incumbent telecom companies, etc.). Government has unfortunately become complicit in this dynamic. Today, big money corporations control government by "buying off" politicians through large campaign contributions. It doesn't matter if the politicians are Democrats or Republicans. Our big-money political system has corrupted virtually all of them. Until we fix our broken political system by removing the corrupting effect of big money, none of us will regain the freedoms that were fought for and won by our ancestors. jack Brad Belton wrote: Jack, I completely disagree with the notion that America has to become smaller to have a smaller less invasive government! It is a socialist mentality to think that only government can grow America or help Americans.America achieved its success by people utilizing their abilities to better themselves and their lives free of an overly burdening government. America was not built by grants, entitlements or anything big government can possibly provide. Instead our constitution provides a framework outlining government limitations, so as to prevent government to ever be able to control the people it governs. The people of the republic govern not the other way around. Countless Americans have given their lives to protect the very freedom big government takes away. Government run health care just happens to be the straw that broke the camel's back and Americans are saying enough is enough in overwhelming numbers. Brad -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jack Unger Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 4:48 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Common Carrier or what: The FCC's role in regulation of net-neutrality Brad, There is really only one way to get a smaller government without throwing society into total disarray. That method is to have a smaller country, in other words, a lower level of population. With an exploding population there is just no way that I can see to get a smaller government. If only reclaiming our country for working people was as easy as voting the incumbents out that would be GREAT but unfortunately it's not that simple. Voting the incumbents out won't result in government doing a better job for working people because the real influence is the big-corporation money that finances the election campaigns for each new crop of political nominees. The big-money lobbyists remain when each old group of politicians is voted out so the big-money corporation's power actually becomes greater and greater as time goes on. The solution that I propose is equal public financing for ALL political campaigns. Each nominee (and incumbent) would receive an equal number of taxpayer dollars to run their campaign. This will help ALL candidates remember who they are supposed to be working for (working-class taxpayers, not large corporations). As to regaining some influence for working people with regard to banks, I'd recommend that everyone put their money in a local credit union or small local community bank. My money has been kept in a local community credit union for over 20 years and I feel good about it being there. It's contributing to the community instead of being used in an irresponsible fashion and/or used against the best interests of the community. Best, jack Brad Belton wrote: -- Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. Network Design - Technical Training - Technical Writing Serving the Broadband Wireless, Networking and Telecom Communities since 1993 www.ask-wi.com 818-227-4220 jun...@ask-wi.com |
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