Key difference here - nobody was forced to buy a car. This was back in the good ol' days of 'free enterprise'.Pretty sure there would of been a similar argument about the car replacing the horse and electric lights replacing whale oil powered lamps....seriously.
The first cars were slow and cumbersome, noisy made strange smells and drove on roads designed and built for horses and cost alot of money, there would of been alot of opinion in favour of the good old trusty horse, probably would of made more short term financial sense to stick with horses too.
You Can't Stop Progress...its inevitable.
Fools run by Fools
Key difference here - nobody was forced to buy a car. This was back in the good ol' days of 'free enterprise'.
Regarding stopping progress, I shall quote:
"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
Russell Baker
Did I hit a raw nerve yesterday ?
Russell baker is 'some dude'. Just had to put his name under the quote, citation and all that, y' knowtothemax6 please tell us how you get around your tax dollars being spent on roadsim fascinated....and who the hell is Russell baker and why should i give a toss about what he says?
But big roads - we should be able to buy shares in the things.
Russell baker is 'some dude'. Just had to put his name under the quote, citation and all that, y' know.
Firstly, your implication is that if something is big and nation-wide, it should be government owned. We should have public rail, electricity, water, telephony, gas, TV, cable, you name it. But then, is not retail big and nation wide? Or mining? Should the government not provide supermarkets, to 'provide for a growing nation' or whatever?
The answer is no, the USSR tried all that.
I would love private roads. Logically, how would private roads compete? If Bobs private road is a slow, congested, bumpy piece of ----, and Jane's private road is a smooth, free-flowing dream-to-drive-on, with no traffic lights and high speed limits, who will go out of business? With public roads, the government effectively maintains a monopoly on roads - a private road has to compete with 'free' public roads, which is completely unworkable.
Sure, there are limits to the types of roads which can be privatized, such as the small residential type roads. But big roads - we should be able to buy shares in the things.
The speed difference between NBN entry and ADSL2+ was discussed between another poster and yourself yesterday, so there's little point re-covering that ground.Raw nerve...no, i just get a little cranky when people such as your self post dishonestly in what can only to assumed to be a very deliberate act of disinformation to push your particular political agenda.
You can, and a lot of the toll road operators have gone broke. Roads are too expensive to maintain for the amount of tolls charged and motorists are not willing to pay more as they feel they should be free (or paid for by our already high taxes)
Personally i think health, education, transport should all be available free up to a 'good' standard. I think the benefits outweigh the costs. But thats for another thread...
The speed difference between NBN entry and ADSL2+ was discussed between another poster and yourself yesterday, so there's little point re-covering that ground.
What will make more people cranky over time is paying more for quota when the general trend has been in the other direction. That though is what we get from the bunch of incompetent socialist retards that is our current government.
"The government could spend $15 billion to build a fibre-to-the-node network (and) pay $15 to $20 billion to Telstra for compensation," Senator Conroy told ABC's Four Corners program due to screen on Monday night.
"Then Telstra could take that money and build a fibre-to-the-home network past you and strand 70 per cent of $15 billion on the side of the road."
What will make more people cranky over time is paying more for quota when the general trend has been in the other direction. That though is what we get from the bunch of incompetent socialist retards that is our current government.
Socialism is an economic and political theory advocating public or common ownership and cooperative management of the means of production and allocation of resources.[1][2][3] A socialist society is organized on the basis of relatively equal power-relations, self-management, dispersed decision-making (adhocracy) and a reduction or elimination of hierarchical and bureaucratic forms of administration and governance, the extent of which varies in different types of socialism.[4][5] This ranges from the establishment of cooperative management structures to the abolition of all hierarchical structures in favor of free association.
Perhaps the part that wants to build a government owned NBN.Which part of the current labor party would you say acts along the lines of the Wiki quote of Socialist
The Fabian Society is a British socialist movement, whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary, means....
Today, the society is a vanguard think tank of the centre left. It is one of 15 socialist societies affiliated with the Labour Party. Similar societies exist in Australia (the Australian Fabian Society)...
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