President Bush Set a Goal of Affordable Nationwide Broadband by 2007
In 2004, President Bush set a goal of affordable nationwide broadband by 2007. Yet today, over 100 million Americans still lack access to broadband. America’s broadband Internet deployment goals are going unmet and America’s international position rapidly is declining. A surprising number of American families, schools and libraries cannot afford broadband and most of rural America cannot even get access to broadband Internet. This lack of Internet access creates an unfair advantage for those who are able to afford and use the Internet as a powerful educational and business tool. In today’s information-era, all American’s should have free access to broadband Internet the same way they have free access to television and radio signals.
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Before one is quick to pronounce what one "should" have in this case, perhaps one ought to remember that, whether or not one is paying the cost of one's "should", someone most certainly IS paying that cost.
On what basis do you demand your "should" at the cost of another?
Let us not forget that the bulk of the internet is a service provided at a cost to consumers by those who have developed, installed and maintained the system. It is barbaric to demand a product of another's labors without compensation.
Perhaps, those who lived long and very hard under communist regimes can give you some insight in that regard. One's demands for equality are likely to get one far more than one has requested.
You do realize that the internet has its origins in a government agency, right?