RE: An Explanation of the State of the Internet Infrastructure in the United States
"The United States of Disrepair," how true it is. In my area of the country (Midwest), we had one of the local bridges (that supports an Interstate Highway) shut-down several years ago, in an emergency situation, because they had discovered that it was extremely unsafe to use. It could have easily been too late too, and we've obviously had others bridges fail, causing loss of life. It's not as if this great country is too poor to maintain our infrastructure, either.
I've never traveled out of the country, so I can't speak from personal experience, but it was my understanding that many countries had much (overall) faster/more consistent Internet service than the US, even before coming across this post. The US should at least be on par.
It's sad to see what the US actually is, compared to what it could (and should) actually be...minus such waste, and corruption. I love my country, but we need to turn things around, in many aspects!
It's very sad when the government is more 'problem-than-solution,' but that's far too often the case. Our Federal Government is bloated, inefficient, and extremely wasteful, at least.
Thanks for your post, and you have a new follower.
It's because the Federal Government Corporation has been at war for quite some time now, it's essentially saying "these war criminals are bloated, inefficient, and extremely wasteful".
You'll get no argument from me. I'm 57, and I've never experienced this general level of contempt for the government, by the masses. It's not a Trump thing, or Obama thing - it's a GOVERNMENT and BANKERS THING! It's always the same old story; increased spending, watch the trillions disappear into the 'Black Hole' of The Pentagon, and war...LOTS of WAR! There's always money for war! This ridiculous 'War on Terror' is complete insanity. May as well have a war on, 'Bad Stuff.' How the hell would you even know if you'd won a 'War on Terror?' Does the head terrorist send out a Tweet saying, "You won, terror lost?" I say we have a 'War on War.' The 'War on Drugs' went so well, let's keep going! No drugs here. It's very much about having PERPETUAL WAR, that's where the money is. Keep dropping the bombs, killing the children, and watch the money roll in!
We could at least just keep paying the weapons manufacturers and just drop the bombs in a volcano, instead of on innocent people. If I lived in the Middle East, I'd probably hate the US too. Why wouldn't they when we keep dropping bombs on their families, friends, and homes?
We are very much existing in '1984.' (The book)
The US is not America, and not our Lawful Organic Government. The US Major has always been in the clutches of the Bankers, war is declared between Nations, in Law, or it's not a war only a military action, and what we have are mercenary actions. Essentially it all comes down to this: Government gains it's power from the consent of the governed, and it cannot act outside the powers it was given or in breech of trust and what we have here is a Corporation offering Governmental Services, the catch being that without people to consent and elect Public Officials we have been operating as US citizens and not "Free, Sovereign and Independent People" as the Treaty of France defines us. The difference being that we have not had a Continental Congress since before the Revolutionary War, which was only and simply a mercenary action. So here we are today, all vouched from birth as Wards of the state by our Mothers who were forced and tricked into signing us to a Probate Court, under the title of informant, and give us away as abandoned infants, and we have been treated as Guilty Until Proven Innocent and deemed to be Infantile Adults, incapable of governing ourselves and this is Demonstrable both legally, lawfully and Factually as nothing else explains the Criminality that has overtaken our Countries. We have been Duped again and again and demonstrate that we aren't capable of Governing Ourselves. On one hand the guilty are the criminals and they cannot escape their acts, and on the other we are guilty and complicit by our constant, unwavering unflinching silent acquiescence, and clearly the way out is by defining the problem, otherwise we are bound to keep scratching our heads as how and why these bankers have this kind of cheek and operate with the nerve of a 6 year old Moma's boy who'd bully the Sheriff in the middle of the Street or the Principal in front of the school. The balls on these people are there because for 150 years they have managed to do all this genocide, pitting us against ourselves and done this with our silent affirmations, but no more, people have grasped the Crime from it's century old inception and their tricks of Semantic Deceit and similarly named Corporations as Nations have been appreciated quite well and we have learned our lessons, let see what other tricks they have for us now.
didn't Obama spend a few TRILLION dollars on infrastructure repair in the early part of his first term?
Yeah, he spent a bunch, but nothing around here, evidently. Maybe he was buying ammunition for Chicago? They seem to never run out.
The way I see it is; humans are flawed, EXTREMELY flawed. As long as you have governments made up of humans, you're gonna get some corrupt, power-hungry monsters that grow. Every large government that comes to mind is out of control. The US, just like most all of them, has done, and continues to some heinous acts. We're told that we're spreading freedom and democracy, but it sure looks an awful lot like death and destruction.
We should have plenty of money in order to keep our infrastructure maintained, but there's never enough money. Always many trillions for war, however. I wonder who's next, Fiji? Micronesia? I bet we can take both of them at the same time, with (3) aircraft carriers tied behind our back. We could steal all their coconuts.
humans are NOT flawed.
any organization larger than the cognosphere is.
the Iron law of bureaucracy..
governments are insane.
I always liked the H.L. Mencken line on that: "The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
That's pretty much the conclusion that I've arrived at.