Jay Foushee has called his local phone company in rural Roxboro, N.C., numerous times to plead for high-speed Internet service. “I keep getting, ‘Well, it’s coming, it’s coming.’ And this has been going on for about three years now,” says Jay, a fourth-generation farmer whose family runs a 1,000-acre farm. He isn’t alone. Where the Foushees live in Person County, population… return to article
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Reader Comments (1)Page 1 of 1 pagesThis vital public infrastructure of broadband that will be publicly financed should also be publicly owned.
What tax-payers finance; tax-payers should own and control.
Why is it that these progressive and leftists supporting Obama refuse to address the question of “ownership.”
This is the left’s opportunity to advance the concept of public ownership… isn’t this what socialism is supposed to be about?
Alan L. Maki
Warroad, Minnesotahttp://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/
Posted by alanmaki on Jun 6, 2009 at 1:16 PM Page 1 of 1 pages -
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