Support Consumers or Support Business?

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http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20081015/ap_on_hi_te/tec_fcc_telecom_overhaul

The head of the Federal Communications Commission [Kevin Martin, one of three Republicans on the five-member commission] wants a massive overhaul of the fees that phone companies pay each other when they connect calls. Supporters say the reforms will help fund improved broadband Internet access for rural America, but consumer advocates question how much the plan will raise people's phone bills. "This could be potentially a billion-dollar giveaway to phone monopolies, paid for out of consumers' pocketbooks," said Chris Murray, an attorney with Consumers Union.

How much do you think our country should go back towards a more consumer-focused, less business-focused regulatory environment?

If you feel that our country should be more consumer-focused, are you voting this fall for the party that traditionally favors consumer issues, the Democratic Party?

If you feel that our country should stay more business-focused, are you voting this fall for the party that traditionally favors consumer issues, the Republican Party?

Full Disclosure: I favor Martin's proposal, and feel that our country should stay more business-focused, but am not voting Republican because I believe other tenets of their party platform are immoral.

 

[pr surfer]

Consumer oriented, voting democrat.

 

[bicker]

bump

 

[gina2000]

Sigh. If I vote consumer based, I'm killing jobs in America.

If I vote business based, I'm killing jobs in America. Or at this point I feel like I am.



I'm more concerned with jobs in America than I am with consumer prices primarily because I think we all own too much. And we aren't going to be able to pay for anything if we don't have jobs.