On Wed, 11 May 2005 06:40:20 -0700, "John Smith"
wrote:

Dave:

You said, "So, while the FCC might not directly
"own" the airwaves, the U.S. government does."

This is grossly mis-leading!!! The gov't owns NOTHING!!!!

Well then they are certainly operating as if they do. They collect the
proceeds from spectrum auctions. That makes the government a de-facto
owner of this commodity.


They are a group
of indivduals who are elected, appointed, and hired to do the citizens
business. They have a job to do--if they either cannot or will not do it
without becomming self-serving employees--they simply need fired.

Evidently the "citizens",collectively, do not see the problem with the
FCC administering the airwaves in the manner than they currently do.

These public servants, from the president on down, need to be worried about
what the citizens of this country need and want--and what the citizens of
this country are telling them to do.

By and large, the citizens are not screaming for mass chunks of radio
spectrum to use.


Just like if I hired an employee to help me in a private business--they are
directly answerable to their employers...

What the gov't needs to do is set aside a bit of the radio spectrum for use
in conducing the citizens business--some for commercial use--some for
hobby-expermental use... and the rest IS THE CITIZENS!!!!!

To do what with? Besides, after you divide up the spectrum between
legitimate commercial services (which are usually available to the
citizens as in cell phone and wireless internet), public services
(police, fire, EMS etc.) government entities (FBI, USGS, Forest
service, military etc.) and hobby use (Ham and CB), there isn't much
left.

That's why the FCC operates as it does.

Dave
"Sandbagger"
http://home.ptd.net/~n3cvj