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Does anyone subscribe to the fictional government internet service-anyone own a government server, router, modem or computer?
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Calling in backup? Shouting me down isn't going to change reality and misstating what
I've said is indicative of losing the argument.
This is from the Wikipedia entry you linked:
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Commercial internet service providers (ISPs) began to emerge in the late 1980s and 1990s. The ARPANET [Department of Defense] was decommissioned in 1990. The Internet was commercialized in 1995 when NSFNET was decommissioned, removing the last restrictions on the use of the Internet to carry commercial traffic.
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As a young congressman from Tennessee, Al Gore was responsible for legislation that facilitated the development of the internet in addition to funneling tax payer dollars to the new enterprise. By the way, contrary to popular belief, Gore never claimed to "invent" the internet but he
was instrumental in its creation.
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They do however continue to dump billions every year into snailmail, even with private sector help they can't make that work. Think about that for a minute- a monopoly that can't even support itself but instead runs billions in the red every year.
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No taxpayer money goes to fund the Post Office. None. The fiscal problem with the postal service started in 2006 when corporatists in congress mandated that the Post Office fund retirement benefits for postal workers for 75 years within the next 10 years. In other words, put benefits away for employees who aren't even born yet. As a result, the Post Office starts out $5 billion in the hole every year.
Of course, their agenda is to kill the Post Office so they can throw some more business to their Wall Street sugar daddies. It's ironic behavior from congressmen who claim the Constitution is tantamount to the word of God because every little backwater Post Office and the road to get there have a constitutional mandate.
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