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General Comments / Re: How's that free market working out in Texas?
« on: March 08, 2021, 03:23:42 AM »That was a valid talking point right up until the companies received massive amounts of government funds to put infrastructure in for those rural communities and then they didn't.
You're shocked by this? Government graft and corruption never went away, and the Democrats, who funded most of that, are some of the worst offenders. Rural areas are slowly getting brought up to speed, but it isn't the major telecoms doing it. It's local small/regional operations(at the stat level, not national) that are making it happen. And government regulations and subsidies on the matter complicate things nearly as much as they help at this point.
I'm calling BS here.
Yes, there was corruption and graft. It wasn't in the government.
Companies were given billions to expand rural infrastructure and they didn't. Oh, it was due to corruption, sorry, we'll try harder next time? F*ck that. The companies took the money and played it on the insurance company game and they came up short. I don't really care about the details.
The extended distance between communities was identified, it was analyzed, and then an answer was given in "socialist" money given to private companies to address the deficit.
They didn't deliver. They straight up robbed the every day taxpayer. They got away with it and now they have everyday friendly people like you defending them.