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President Bush:
To make such a broad un-committable promise is just as ill-conceived coming from a president who has shown himself over and over again as clueless in a country where we can not prove ourselves "Smarter than a 5th Grader" and most act like 3rd graders! (Forgive the run-on sentence.) A) What is to be considered affordable when many in this country live well below the poverty line and cannot afford the real necessities of life; and B) what quality broadband - like AT&T's $10 package (if one can even locate the package-difficult to find even by many of us who are considered "techies"), and that barely crawls faster than a good quality dialup, and often has such high packet loss that it makes the USPS look like the gold standard in mail/package delivery.
Come on President Bush, do you think we are as gullible as your pet terriers? But then it wouldn't matter anyway, we all know they at least eat better than many Americans in poverty!
I won't discuss the # of families who do not have a single computer in their home, discussing this would probably burn out the circuitry in my new pacemaker!
Writing fo a better United States of America
LJB
What About Universal Affordable Broadband Access?
"On March 26, 2004 President George W. Bush gave a speech setting a national and Administration goal for broadband telecommunications. He said, "This country needs a national goal for the spread of broadband technology. We ought to have universal affordable access for broadband technology by the year 2007 and then we ought to make sure, as soon as possible thereafter, consumers have choices when it comes to their carrier.""
Millions of Americans - especially those in rural and low-income urban areas still don't have access to high-speed broadband because it does not yet pay for providers to invest in these areas. Chances are broadband will reach 86 million households, but will we have universal affordable access by 2012?
It is time for the U.S. to adopt policies for universal access and set deployment timetables. Check out CWA's "Speed Matters" campaign and read their policy paper which has some excellent recommendations for achieving universal affordable broadband access for all U.S. households regardless of income and geographic location.