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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (14949)3/21/2010 12:21:08 PM
From: Lane31 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
not ensure our farmers are connected to broadband and the free market response will be their eventual bankruptcy

You haven't connected the dots between taxpayer funded broadband for farmers and their bankruptcy.

You may have forgotten, but what makes this country great and our economy vibrant is that class mobility is alive and well.

I haven't. Not at all. But it seems to me there are greater obstacles to that than a lack of broadband for folks choosing to live in the sticks. If you want to improve upward mobility, there are a lot of other things that you can do.

Even if you choose to set rural broadband as the goal rather than the means to a goal, there are other ways of doing that than the feds laying cable to their current houses.

It's about differentiating between the problem and a proposed solution. People confuse them all the time. One technique used in problem solving when someone offers an solution is called "the five whys." You ask why. When they respond, you ask why again. Sooner or later, typically with about five tries, you find the actual problem behind the proposed solution. Once you have identified the underlying problem, then and only then can you look at possible ways to solve the problem, one of which might be the one originally offered.

We have gone from the problem being lack of rural cable for broadband to the problem being no one left to grow our food to limited upward mobility. Hard to solve a problem until you've pinned down the problem. Easy to waste resources on potential solutions for undefined problems.
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