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Back to episode — Episode 2607 CWSA 09/24/24

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able to interact with you, which works for me. Now, I don't know if you have this experience on X, those of you who use it, but there are lots of things that people repost and there'll be some message where I can't read it and it doesn't say unblocked. It says something like the user limits who can see their posts or something like that. I don't even know what causes that, but some large percentage of all the things that people send to me and say, "Hey, look at this," I can't look at. A large percentage, maybe 5%, but that's a lot. So maybe that'll go away.

You know the story about the Biden administration had that $42 billion set aside to build internet access to all the rural people, and time went by and nobody got hooked up. And you said to yourself, why? Why did nobody get hooked up? And I always thought to myself that the government funding of anything like this, whether it's a local city or national or state issue, I think that 100% of these are just corrupt. And here's what I assume. I assume that there are too many ways for a person in government to make money for themselves, even if it's just donations for the next race, by deciding who gets what contracts. Because if you've got billions of dollars to allocate, don't you just find the friendliest person you can and say, I got a deal for you. We're going to give you a few billion dollars to do this work. You'll be rich beyond any imagination, but I am going to come and ask for some favors in return. Perhaps you will make large donations to my campaign in the future. Perhaps somebody that's in my family who is starting a company might need an investment, and that has nothing to do with me. I mean, your investment arm might do whatever it wants to do and might actually like that business that my cousin is working on. So there are a million ways to do corrupt things with gigantic amounts of money that the government has to give to private citizens for various services.

I think our elected officials should not be in that business at all. I think you have to remove the elected officials from allocating large amounts of money. I'm okay with them making laws. You can still make laws because we can watch that happen. If we don't like it, we'll vote against you. But if you're moving gigantic amounts of money around in sketchy ways where we can't really know if you really picked somebody who is your brother-in-law, you can't always know. None of that works. If you were to write down that system on paper, say, all right, I'm going to design the system. Here's the system. We're going to have billions of dollars sloshing around with nobody watching carefully, and we'll have our elected officials decide who wins the bids. Who in the world would say that was a good idea?

The only thing I can think of for how we got to this place is that when the founders who built the system, there just wasn't that much money floating around. So it wasn't like there were billions of dollars floating around and it would be easy to make sure that you got a taste of it. So maybe they just didn't think about it, and you could tell where the money was being spent just by looking. Maybe it was just a simpler time. But I think we somehow have to get out of our system entirely that the people in charge get to make the decisions.

So what are some of the problems? Well, some of the problems is they would spend too mu

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ch and there would be corruption. Those are the obvious problems. You want to hear another problem? Well, according to several people, including Commissioner Brendan Carr at the FCC, he said this was the worst abuse of agency process I have seen in my 12 years of working at the FCC. So I think the short version of this is that the reason things were held up so long to get that funding out and have…

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