Biting and Eating Hands that Feed You

(Published at TownHall.com on June 9, 2008)

This country is going to hell in a hand basket. That is a recently expressed perspective from an elder gentleman I respect. He was talking about the price of gasoline at the time, but I am inclined to add further evidence to the charge.

America transformed rapidly over the past few decades, into a society that runs on two essential ingredients: gasoline and communications. Our population has moved from rural communities to the cities and from city centers to a sprawling network of annexed suburbs, often to the chagrin of the small town’s people, powerless to stop it from happening.

I just watched a recorded interview in which they were discussing plans of major Internet Service Providers such as Time-Warner and AT&T to begin charging subscribers for actual Internet usage. Not such an unreasonable concept, one might be inclined to agree unless we look at the facts of the matter. Giant telecom crocodile tears may tear at the heart-strings of conservative sympathizers; however, I am getting a bit sensitive to the notion that corporate America has less than admirable intentions.