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Why haven't we as taxpayers gotten what we paid for with Telecommunications Act of 1996? $200 Billion was given to the ISPs and we never received the promised bandwidth. Can you explain?

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_002683.html

First, thank you for taking the time to do this.

Can you explain how seemingly obvious violations of the Constitution are allowed? Gun laws, DUI checkpoints.. etc.

Thank you for the reply. How can a reading of "shall make no law" or "shall not infringe" be nuanced? Those lines, mto me at least, seem straight forward and immune to interpretation.

In that case, if it can be interpreted until it doesn't mean what it was meant to or infringed at will, whats the point of having it?

Reading this: "While acknowledging that such checkpoints infringed on a constitutional right, Chief Justice Rehnquist argued the state interest in reducing drunk driving outweighed this minor infringement." I'm left with the feeling that the Constitution is just a set of ambiguous guidelines that can be ignored at will by the government.

As someone that was ordered to do community service in LA I think it would just prolong the inevitable. If they are homeless they probably don't have a car to go to community service. I had a car and would often show up just to be told they weren't taking anyone for community service that day. That's after getting up at 5:00 to be at the yard by 6:00. Also, they only take as many people as they need so if you show up later there is an even lesser chance of getting in.