Remember the big break of AT&T years the prior? All the commotion about a monopoly and what do we see today? A huge merger putting more pieces back together again and what is this Humpty Dumpty syndrome? No one seems to get it; all the Kings horses and all the Kings Men could not do it before, remember? Oh, but it is okay for the FTC to go around pushing our Corporate Nest Eggs off the wall?
They attacked AT&T and Microsoft but really if you think about it the government regulators are complete morons? The AT&T break-up did not lower prices for consumers, it did not make service better and it did not help America. Now that the Telecom Industry is all screwed up and destroyed, it is okay to let them put the pieces back together again? Why did the FTC waste everyone's time to begin with? What utter in competence indeed.
With the Microsoft attack the FTC could not find any consumer who was damaged by Microsoft giving away a free browser for the Internet in their software Window's Operating System. But they told the public Microsoft and Bill Gates were bad people. That is bull crap, first off Bill and Melinda Gates have given more monies to the common good of the World than any other humans in World History. Bill Gates evil? My rear end! He is what is right about American Business, innovation and economies of scale, free markets and fast moving technology standardization. The consumer was enhanced in lower prices and free stuff? Why is that bad? Because the government says so?
Yah right just like the government told us they must break up AT&T to help us all and then what happened? Prices went up for our telephone services? You know what? Next time the FTC says that they are going to help us consumers; tell those moronic bureaucrats to stick it where the Sun don't shine! Brain dead imbeciles, we should close that good for nothing agency and save the taxpayer's and consumers the money they cost us in all their shenanigans. Consider this in 2006.
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