Jeff downloaded an App to his iPad that tested the speed of the current Internet Service Provider he was using. The goal was to go around to all the coffee shops and restaurants providing wireless Internet service and write reviews about using public Internet access.
Jeff set up an outline of issues faced by the public interacting at various locations, such as seating arrangement, glare, noise, foot traffic around the tables, the types of customers, and finally the Internet speed itself at that location.
As Jeff ventured forth unto his first Starbucks, he ordered his Venti Iced Mocha Frappuccino and began his survey while waiting, with the Internet speed test. He launched the application and in fumbling with the device accidentally tapped the "Global Stats" icon which opened a window featuring the "Top Countries WiFi."
The United States was nowhere to be found on the top ten list of public WiFi. Public WiFi access in the United States averages less than five Megabits per second, while number ten in the world is Australia at 7.97 Mbps.
This information bothered Jeff so much he discontinued is task and sat staring out the window, slurping down his Frappuccino. The brain freeze was a welcome sensation to his existing headache.
'Why is the Internet so slow in the United States compared to the rest of the world?' Jeff thought. 'Even Ukraine is 8.45 Mbps!' Jeff shook his head in disbelief. The Internet was started in the United States and was a strategic asset much like the Federal Interstate Highway system that Dwight Eisenhower established. Why would the Internet in the U.S. be so neglected?
Something dawned on Jeff. He wondered what our roads, highways, bridges and rail systems might be like if the United States only temporarily imported underpaid workers from foreign countries and then sent them home again when the work was finished. He wondered how loyal to the job and country, are the current outsourced overworked underpaid workers.
Why would they create an advantage for the U.S. over their own country in anything at all?
The End.
They own you now
One day the people rose up against the nobility. The Nobility of that era were defined as anyone who succeeded in acquiring wealth by manipulating the government to its own ends, creating barricades in their wake for anyone else seeking success, and distorting public education by manipulating curriculum.
Military service personnel were fed up with the corporatocracy and appointed a ruler who made it his priority to seize the Cayman Islands to start. Around the world every enlisted, drafted or conscripted individual suffered the same, so they united globally in their effort to seize the riches of the "nobility."
The nobility had their own private mercenaries who harassed and disappeared the families of the global revolutionary military. They also shut down the Internet, but it was already clear to the people whom they should eliminate and it made no difference. The Internet was back up within hours anyway, and the big red cut-off switch was put on display with the bloody hand of the gentry who pushed it. Everyone LOL'd.
There was a big white truck that parked on Pennsylvania Avenue. A giant hydraulic press was welded to the back, and a huge blade that was sharpened to perfectly, cleanly chop telephone poles into smaller sections, began to demonstrate on some of the long wooden poles. "Ker-Chunk!" went the hydraulic chopper, and everyone around was shocked at the efficiency of the great machine.
Then a large dark blue school bus pulled up along side, and the first of many "nobles" was lifted out of the back kicking and screaming and carried over to the machine, a revolutionary guardsman gripping each arm and leg. The noble was not gagged for the effect of his pleadings. The audience was looking at the other nobles on the bus, watching their expressions as the machine mechanically beheaded the nobles one-by-one.
It was a nice dream, but more humanely, the money was seized and everyone who had an offshore bank account was exiled to the location of their bank forever and left with around $100 and became indentured servants to the locals there. They were never allowed to travel or do business in the United States again.
Big Insurance wins again
Health insurance companies were struggling because the only people who were buying insurance policies were rich, educated people who were smart enough to stay away from situations and things that would create health problems. Too many policy holders were practicing preventive medicine which usually only requires healthy decisions at no cost. These policy holders were not getting sick.
Some people had insurance but were getting sick from diseases that are inherited, but they bought policies from insurance companies that didn't cover those conditions. Other people were just smart enough to know that buying insurance is gambling and so didn't buy any insurance.
In the boardroom of a large unnamed organization of health insurance companies, the board members were slumped and swiveling around in their chairs staring at the ceiling. One CFO was reading Twitter and scrolled down to a tweet posted by Move-On.org which was telling everyone to sign a petition promoting Single-Payer health care reform.
The CFO grumbled "Looks like we gotta get more petition signatures for our side and send more cash to Congress. This health care reform act is gonna socialize medicine and put us out of business!"
Another member turned toward the CFO and said "what if we got Congress to change the law to make our role in health care permanent? The Republicans would surely all vote our way no matter what, so how can we make them look good and us richer by them voting in favor of the reform? What can we do?"
A man at the head of the conference table sat up, put his elbows on the table and folded his hands with his index fingers pointing up. This signaled for the undivided attention of everyone in the room who stopped swiveling and looked unblinking toward the head of the table.
"In the history of this country, the federal government has never forced its people to pay for a private service or product. Right now most people believe that health care reform means getting the same kind of health care that Congress and the Senate members receive, basically a tax funded system. Some people believe that everyone will suddenly become eligible for Medicare or Medicaid."
The CFO snapped his chair upright and said "So we get our politicians to make it mandatory for the public to buy insurance!? That would keep health care private and we still have the option to deny services, brilliant! We will be richer than ever!"
Another voice at the table spouted "And we have the Bush Supreme Court to back it up!"
With that everyone applauded and began texting their politicians and lobbyists.
In the end, more Americans were sent to prison because they couldn't afford to buy insurance and couldn't afford to pay the penalty for not buying insurance. The disposable income that might have gone to supporting local businesses was funneled into the hands of the insurance industry. Bars, restaurants, movie theaters, hotels, convention centers and sports arenas all suffered from the Heath Care Mandate.
Several people independently concluded that the Health Care Mandate should be considered a direct threat to one's life. Those people took the lives of the first people who contacted them with threats of making them pay a fine for not buying the insurance. Other people simply took their frustrations out on the nearest IRS office because they finally had had enough.
The End.
Some people had insurance but were getting sick from diseases that are inherited, but they bought policies from insurance companies that didn't cover those conditions. Other people were just smart enough to know that buying insurance is gambling and so didn't buy any insurance.
In the boardroom of a large unnamed organization of health insurance companies, the board members were slumped and swiveling around in their chairs staring at the ceiling. One CFO was reading Twitter and scrolled down to a tweet posted by Move-On.org which was telling everyone to sign a petition promoting Single-Payer health care reform.
The CFO grumbled "Looks like we gotta get more petition signatures for our side and send more cash to Congress. This health care reform act is gonna socialize medicine and put us out of business!"
Another member turned toward the CFO and said "what if we got Congress to change the law to make our role in health care permanent? The Republicans would surely all vote our way no matter what, so how can we make them look good and us richer by them voting in favor of the reform? What can we do?"
A man at the head of the conference table sat up, put his elbows on the table and folded his hands with his index fingers pointing up. This signaled for the undivided attention of everyone in the room who stopped swiveling and looked unblinking toward the head of the table.
"In the history of this country, the federal government has never forced its people to pay for a private service or product. Right now most people believe that health care reform means getting the same kind of health care that Congress and the Senate members receive, basically a tax funded system. Some people believe that everyone will suddenly become eligible for Medicare or Medicaid."
The CFO snapped his chair upright and said "So we get our politicians to make it mandatory for the public to buy insurance!? That would keep health care private and we still have the option to deny services, brilliant! We will be richer than ever!"
Another voice at the table spouted "And we have the Bush Supreme Court to back it up!"
With that everyone applauded and began texting their politicians and lobbyists.
In the end, more Americans were sent to prison because they couldn't afford to buy insurance and couldn't afford to pay the penalty for not buying insurance. The disposable income that might have gone to supporting local businesses was funneled into the hands of the insurance industry. Bars, restaurants, movie theaters, hotels, convention centers and sports arenas all suffered from the Heath Care Mandate.
Several people independently concluded that the Health Care Mandate should be considered a direct threat to one's life. Those people took the lives of the first people who contacted them with threats of making them pay a fine for not buying the insurance. Other people simply took their frustrations out on the nearest IRS office because they finally had had enough.
The End.
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