National Broadband

You know what? Socialism isn't all that bad. Other countries get much cheaper internet access than we do, because the government built up the infrastructure.

We should do the same. Just like the highway system of the 1950's, whose infrastructure had a government purpose but also spurred vast economic growth in all sorts of areas, a national high-speed internet system would provide a foundation for all manner of cool stuff that would actually create jobs and wealth.

Too bad Congress is held hostage by the people making piles of money off the current system. I can see why Lawrence Lessig left copyright law for campaign finance reform. Nothing good will happen until we clean up the money in politics.