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1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right In Finland
An anonymous reader writes "Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection, according to the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Finland is the world's first country to create laws guaranteeing broadband access. The Finnish people are also legally guaranteed a 100Mb broadband connection by the end of 2015."
People have a "right" to anything they want. Didn't you know that?
Neither can he afford to heat his swimming pool.
"Sacrifice for the good of The State" - The State
even for esstentials like power and water, i think if you choose to live in the middle of no where, your on your own.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
""Thank god I live in a country where I'm free to lose my home if my wife or kid gets sick, just as our Founding Fathers intended."
You say that in a mocking way, but you're actually right. Freedom includes the risk of losing as well as the possibility of winning.
Or, you can turn your life over to a government with the promises of all your needs being taken care of from cradle to grave. All you have to give them is... everything.
The problem, for admirers of this system such as yourself, anyway, is that Europe itself is starting to question such an arrangement. People are beginning to wonder why they can't have a good medical care system without massive government expenditures. They're starting to wonder just why it's necessary to be paying so much in taxes. They're starting to wonder why starting a business has to be a bureaucratic nightmare. And they're starting to vote appropriately.
So, yes sir, I agree with you. God Bless America.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
But until the libertarian dream is realized (at least as much wishful thinking as marxist socialism) I'll take public welfare over corporate welfare any day :)
When did the work ethic and plain, simple personal responsibility become libertarian utopianism?
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
You're wasting your time arguing with these people. They are the creationists of secularism. They think the government can say "Let there be health care" and health care will be, and the government saw that it was good. They have no regard for the fact that health care must actually be produced and provided, that it always has a cost and that when one person gets it "free" it means someone else paid for it without receiving it.
Any time they are saying that people have a right to something produced by others they are advocating the slave state. Lots of people are happy with that so long as they think there will be a cushion in their cage. They do not anticipate that the cushion can and will be taken away, and they will still be in the cage.
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My roommate said to me the other day he thought that broadband should be provided by the government in the US. This made my blood boil as he is completely against any kind of governmental health care.
Before moving in with him I was under the impression he was also into home security as he owned a few handguns, taken many defensive courses, goes out to the obstacle course 6-12 times a year, etc. The first weekend he lets in a door to door security system sales person and procedes to show them around the place to point out all entrances to the home, what times we are at work, etc...
I surely hope other republicans aren't this stupid.