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Bush Bureaucrats, Bungle Big Bonus Internet Leads: French Blow Away Bushites!

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Bush Bureaucrats, Bungle Big Bonus Internet Leads: French Blow Away Bushites!

Clinton's astonishing opening of the Internet market by forcing the Big Boppers to lease line space jump-started the tech Boom of the 1990's. Bushite typical Conservative business bungling IN ATTEMPTS TO GET MORE MONEY FOR campaigns, by forcing Americans to give the Robber Baron telecoms monopolies backfired and may lead to depression fall 2007-Spring 2008!

Beat Up By The Wall Street Journal France Strikes Back Using a Successfull Clinton Technique!
2001, France! FRENCH INTERNET, SLOW, WEAK, and rare, near last place in electronically rich nations.

Switch to 2007; France whipped past the USA so quickly that the usual USA "Free-Market BS is haunting them out of the Global technology game. When the market is limited and dominated by a few giants progress dies and service is poor and expensive, not so in France, Japan, Germany and other Euro-nations. America is no longer even in the top ten. Why? Politics and favored companies the by words of sagging national morality. The morality of which I speak has nothing to do with the Dunder-headed sexual blindness of dried up prudish, anal-retentive "Christian" inability to comprehend either Shakespeare or the bible and certainly not the "will of God."

No, instead it is related to the dictionary definitions of Conservative and Liberal. If you missed them or do not possess a REAL dictionary hurry to your local library of University and find one. In 2001, France had one of the weakest broadband Internet access in markets technology rich nations, with less than a quarter of the penetration of the America. No longer, its advances catalyzed by their government's vigor and their Liberality and not allowing a few giants to dominate the market-giants which goal is to freeze out competition thus killing the life's blood of growth, these giants are favored for one reason, their potential to contribute to Conservative Candidates. Forever, Conservatism has wreaked havoc on research, development and prescient progress. Conservatism is and always has been the best philosophy for graveyards, morgues and mausoleums-things dead and dying.

According to the tech research company Analysys, fifty-two percent (52%) of broadband connections in France today use Voice-Over-Internet Protocol, or VoIP, phone service-by far the highest level on the planet. perhaps in the world. In Germany and Britain, less than six-percent (6%) of broadband connections contain VoIP.

Moreover, France has leaped forward into Internet TV, serving ten times the number of IPTV Users as Great Britain
Analysys quotes 2,600,000 homes in France now get IPTV- NetTV with Internet protocol making France the leader in Euro IPTV technology penetration.

Why, How, did France the butt of Conservative jokes race past America? Simple, conservatives can only find ways to close markets to competition because they out bribe Liberals and block markets to ensure their own success at the expense of the rest of the world. France, as a Liberal nation favors vast competition to bring down prices and which forces invention and innovation. Conservatism constrains progress; innovation and invention, for fear of losing what Conservatives hold so dearly, avarice!

The startup telecom Iliad, which offers broadband services under the name Free, launched its DSL service in October, 2002, but already has 2,500,000 subscribers all using VoIP including 90 channels of IPTV with Freebox service. The monthly price, 29.99 and it hasn't changed in five years and more than that Free has constantly added more services.

Iliad revenues last year were $1.3 billion, up 31%, with profits of $170.7 million, up 80%. Iliad Chief Financial Officer Olivier Rosenfeld, says of his company's setting of the standard which even France Telecom, had difficulty meeting, says, "We didn't have a legacy business, so were free to make bold choices and create a new paradigm."
Right now in Paris one can choose from an array of companies including Livebox, Freebox, Neufbox, and Dartybox-and get more than subscribers in the USA get for about one-third the cost. Forty-one dollars ($41.00/30) American will get you, in Paris speeds up to 28 MGB megabits per second, plus voice calls, TV, and Wi-Fi. You get free what here you would pay about $150.00+ per month and then some, usually come for free with a monthly broadband subscription.

Lester Thurow's 1992 book, "Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America," predicted that Europe would win the Internet battle-he was so far right, but he was not in the beginning. Along came free marketer Clinton and loosed America's tech revolution, which startled the World. The Clinton Tech-boom easily out raced Europe's slow growth and Japan's ten-year slump. Above all, however, our new confidence reflected the rise of the Internet. Europe. With the exception of Scandinavia, was dragging behind America in online services and innovation, then along came the Bushites, stiflers of innovation, growers of Greedy solid contributors to his campaigns-can't do innovative research and development if all your money is going to prop-up dead and dying conservatism and advertising.

However, since the dawn of the Bushites, America has slumped in all areas of creativity and innovation. The United States that has far, fallen behind. France, Japan and Europe at large.

In 2001, the percentage of the population with high-speed access in Japan and Germany about half that of the United States, but in France it was even lower less than 25%. Less than five years later, by mid-2006, however, Japan, Germany and France more broadband subscribers per 100 people than America.
Moreover, USA High-Speed Internet connections are less than 33% slower than that of France and one-twelfth slower that the Japanese connections, in addition to their access being far cheaper.

Now, thanks to the Bushites and their suppressionist business bigotry, allowing the tail to truly wag the dog, France leads the world in subscribers to Internet TV and the United States is not even among the top ten (top 10).

What happened to America's Internet lead? Conservatism, suppression of competition, favoritism of those who are like-minded instead of those who have brain cells and creativity working. The typical Conservative arrogance that begat Robber Barons whenever the depression bringers get into office. They always, without variation do the same things-their cowardice and envy demands of those which they give money suppression of competition, so anal-retentive and inadequate are they, that they fear even competition from the smallest corporations. Size is their Biggest Bugaboo, in all arenas!

The Internet flourished in the dial-up era because federal regulators forced local phone companies to be common carriers, which allowed competing service providers to use their lines. Al Gore and Reed Hundt, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, attempted to ensure that open competition would continue. That was not to last, because the telecommunications behemoths torpedoed their plans, and The Wall Street Journal editorialized ridicule as an art form comparing the Clinton administrations efforts them as reminding them of French bureaucrats. At the time, I ridiculed the WSJ as having now cursed themselves and boosted the French. I predicted that God would smite them for their short-sidedness

The French bureaucrats so roundly ridiculed by the WSJ now do cable, Internet, VoIP, healthcare and women's lingerie much better than the Bushite, Americans, do.

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Professor Bagnolo has majored in: Cultural Anthropology, Architectural design, painting, creative writing. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, he was offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8.
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