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Subsidized Broadband? No Thank You. By woody1 on 10/30/2011
5:49:49 PM , Rating: 3 The government had an initiative to
provide mail delivery in rural areas, and before you say that it
can be provided by private companies, this was long before UPS,
Fedex, etc. existed. Rural mail service was a tremendous boon to
people living in rural areas.  It's very fashionable in some
circles to rail against the government. People need to do some
research and discover what life was like before we had clean
water, safe drugs, safe food, regulation of medicine and
thousands of other things that people take for granted. Most of
these things came about because of regulation and government
intervention.  So,it's good to challenge government programs
that don't work and are wasteful, but it's also important as
well to acknowledge the benefits that government has produced.
By The Raven on 10/31/2011 2:33:52