Currently there is one fiber optic cable connecting Eureka to the Internet. When that is accidentally cut, business stops. No credit or debit card sales, no automatic inventory re-ordering. The cable fails about once a year. If we connected to the data centers in The Dalles we could continue to be in business. The telecom companies have already designed the system but are waiting for a "big player" to sign on to finance the construction. This is a "shovel ready" construction project that would employ Americans.
Build a fiber optic cable from Eureka, California to The Dalles, Oregon.
Tags: business jobs economy shovel ready internet
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Greg, take this up with your telecommunications provider; this is not a function for the federal government. Don't you people get it? Government doesn't exist to take care of your every want and need!
Greg,
I heartily applaud this idea. FINALLY an idea from an American about improving America, and not all this crapola about the President's eligibility.
I vote yes.
I read about "Shovel Ready" funding in The USA Today newspaper.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-12-07-obama-economy_N.htm
President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that the nation's economic troubles likely will deepen, but he promised to deliver a vast government spending program to spur growth.
The president-elect declined to say Sunday how much his economic stimulus plan would cost. Obama called it the largest public-works program since the creation of the interstate highway system in the 1950s.
The plan includes spending on what Obama called "shovel-ready" projects to rebuild roads, make buildings energy efficient, modernize schools and upgrade hospital technology.
Yeah, I would much rather pay for this than the have the businesses that will use it pay for it.
In fact, blackmonrikker, get the ball rolling by getting out your checkbook and sending your share.
idiot liberals
OK, I will. What's the address, Greg?
And now all you have to do is get other's to follow along, and guess what?
NO TAX PAYER MONEY NEEDED!!!
Case closed.
Next idea.
Redwood Technology Consortium
http://www.redwoodtech.org/
http://www.redwoodtech.org/projects
Alternate Fiber - Redwood Coast Rural Action, Redwood Region Economic Development Commission (RREDC -www.rredc.com), RTC, and County of Humbodt are partnering in 2006 to study the feasibility and build a business case to build a redundant fiber optic line into Humboldt County.
http://www.recovery.gov/
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is an unprecedented effort to jumpstart our economy, save and create millions of jobs, and put a down payment on addressing long-neglected challenges so our country can thrive in the 21st century.
Gee, I thought ARRA was a request for proposals...