And between local cable and local phone, there's not gonna be competition at the present time. And the people, the public isn't going to go along with this. They don't want E. coli bacteria in their drinking water. The onslaught of political and legislative attacks on programs for the poor and for the young is about to create even bigger problems for America's troubled inner cities. Private philanthropy will never be able to restore what seems about to be taken away.
Partial lobotomies work that way.
They favor Beavis and Butt-head. Welcome to the Hall of Shame, Congressman Steve Chabot of Ohio. The House also cut funding for the Smithsonian, the Kennedy Center, and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. These are the prize jewels of our national culture. As Arthur Miller writes in The Nation, America's arts are getting far less government support than any other advanced society.