The result of this will be that the government will take control of and make more decisions for more private industry. Anytime the government passes out your money, it comes with conditions. Healthy Independents struggling to meet 5mbps speeds on the government’s time table will begin to have reliability issues with bad and not properly tested vendor equipment and economic problems. Our telecommunications infrastructure will once again be put at risk.

The legislators who will approve the maze of regulations that will accompany this “stimulus” do not know anything about the communications business as they have proven that they do not know anything about the real estate, banking, auto, airline, or any other business, but they have managed to pick them off one at a time. Not even being fully recovered from the Deregulation Act, which stole their property, they do not need to suffer another disaster at the hands of the government.

The Congressional Record has over 130,000 pages of active regulations with another 3,000 pending. 14,000 of these have been implemented during the Bush administration. The Congressional Review Act gives legislators 60 days to review a new regulation as to its cost and effects on other regulations. before it is put into effect. California has over 300,000 pages of business related regulations with 200 agencies issuing them. State and Federal legislators are in way over their heads. It is not possible to implement a new regulation without screwing something up.

To summon the legends of the constitution and the free market, our limiting federal government is not supposed to be doing this at all. They are not supposed to have the money to pass out in the form of a stimulus in the first place. A national debt passing $14 trillion proves that they don’t.

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