Professor Wu,

Frankly, we need fewer 'professionals' advising Policy, and more 'regular people'. Those with a financial stake have controlled much of (arguably ALL) government policy since the Shrub took office. This leaves the 98% of the rest of us out in the expensive cold of their decisions.

What is needed in this country, first and foremost, is guidance from those with no financial stake in the outcome. Concerning the Internet, this is critical to our survival. With Internet connection becoming as criticle to life as the Interstate Highway System, we seem to be taking the wrong side of the raod. We are selling off the Interstate Highway System, and have sold off the entire Internet already. No money equals no access. Access speed is directly related to how much money you have to spend on acquiring it. With only one shining exception (San Francisco) high speed Internet for the poor is dead.

There are already two Internet concepts, free and commercial. More and more, the free sites are disappearing and the real information becoming available only to those who can pay. In the very near future, our penchant for Vampire Capitalism that has already impoverished the bottom 80% of Americans, will destroy any useful free sites. When accurate information becomes available only to those who pay for it, only the already wealthy will be in control.

I'm old enough to remember when television was new. For a while, it was a boon to all people equally. Once a person bought a television set, they could bring the world into their homes at no cost other than the electricity it took to run the set. In that era, profit was secondary to content, and "Public Interest" had meaning. The early Internet was the same, but once Vampire Capitalism gained the upper hand it, too, became just another rich man's playground.

America has become the self fulfilling prophecy of Capitalism and Free Market Economics, instead of what the Founding Fathers (and Mothers) envisioned. All men are created equal is a sham in a country that is so economically stratified. Liberty, Equality and Justice in America are only for those who can afford them. Are we actually a Nation of Laws, when only the wealthy get to write the LAWS?

Here is the view from the bottom. We have to stop selling off our infrastructure, and start rebuilding it as a Nation (in other words: NOT FOR PROFIT of a few). Included in this infrastructure are the basics of Transportation (Highway, Rail, Sea and Air), Energy (Capturing, Distribution, Allocation), Government (get the money out), Education (highest quality to those who academically qualify, not those who can afford it), Utilities (water, electricity, heat, should never be a matter of being able to afford them), Health Care (no person without it regardless of income), and Internet (public construction and ownership of access, no cost to those unable to afford it).

These things will never happen as long as PRIVATE PROFIT stays the Prime Directive. Milton Friedman is not only dead, but also dead wrong. All that 'Trickles Down' is the excrement from the Privileged Few.

We currently produce enough high tech people to fill all the jobs, but with their huge financial debt incurred in gaining that knowledge, they can not work for the low wages offered. Fix their cost of education problem and you will fix the need to use cheap foreign high tech workers.

So, you have one little toe in the water of needed change. Would your credibility suffer if you pointed any of this out in your articles? Why not become an advocate for real change instead of helping organize the deck chairs on the USS TITANIC.

Respectfully,

Jayson R. Jones