[Antennas] BPL

[Jay Eimer]

The Democrat position would "why not 'tax' the city folk to bring
broadband to the poor folk in the country who can't get broadband either
way".

The Republican argument would be "let the marketplace decide which
service can best serve each market".

And the Republican counter to the Dems would be "the 'poor' city folk
are the minorities and welfare recipients that are subsidizing the rich
folk living in the country, who don't need the subsidy".

Finally, the Dems counter would be to rig it so more government
employees would be required to administer some program so the 'rich'
city folk would end up paying for BPL for everyone.

Unfortunately, none of this takes ANY of the engineering into account.
And Poly Sci/Government and Law degrees don't help.

Jay
AD5PE

-----Original Message-----
From: antennas-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:antennas-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Patrick A.
Thompson Sr.
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 18:15
To: Alan C. Zack
Cc: Tower Talk; Antennas; CQ-Contest; DX List
Subject: Re: [Antennas] BPL


This means (trying to be non-partisan when I'm anything but) that we 
must choose who we vote for on some other basis than BPL since neither 
party offers relief.

I intend to donate more to the ARRL Spectrum Defense fund and hope 
amateur radio can survive the electromagetic ignorance of both parties.

There are other issues in this election.  Make your best judgements. 
Then choose to fight for the survival of amateur radio with whatever 
party prevails.

Pat
wa4tuk

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