Too true, my friend. What is with all these consumers and their sense of entitlement? If you don't like the service that the free market provides, you are free to start your own telecommunications company and do a better job if you're so smart. Too many people want to change the way things are done without realizing that they were perfect 150 years ago before ivory tower liberals started trying to make everything "fair" at the barrel of a government gun.

Nothing good ever came from citizens trying to govern themselves as a people. We should know our place and learn to appreciate the opportunities created for us by the captains of industry who decided not to just drive around all day listening to raps and shooting all the jobs, but to work hard and create wealth and jobs.

The free market's homeostatic mechanisms automatically set the level of these types of practices. I know everyone expects handouts these days, but when you let government start levying fines against competitive companies, you are actually punishing job creation. I can supersize with the liberal sentiment that wants to give everyone a raise but we should fear the day when there are government goons setting limits on my employer's rational self-interest.

Yes, yes it is. If someone offers you exorbitant compensation from public funds and imposes no consequences for failure to deliver, it is unethical to persist once you realize what's going on since you're basically stealing from the public. Both sides of the deal are in the wrong. If the donor were a private entity, then there's no problem.

Isn't it unethical to accept way too much public money over a decade and produce no tangible results, regardless of how stupid or corrupt anyone else might be?

If the government had done it, it would have cost even more. I am sure the free market will punish these consultants accordingly.

Companies which submit false information will be driven out of business by the natural splendor of the free market.

I've been posting lots of melodramatic stuff online about Obama being a usurper and how he's going to throw conservatives in gulags, but now I see how good I've actually got it. Wow.

It's your smugness that's offensive, not your stupid beliefs. Get over yourself.

So when you pay taxes for police to protect other people's property, that's slavery. When you pay taxes and we build roads so you can conduct commerce, that's slavery. I think you can think of a few more examples. Maybe you can go to the library and do some research. Oh, the library is slavery too.

Smug fucker aren't we? Eat shit much?

An American accusing a European of being trash and having no culture. Cute.

As in "I wish there were fewer illiterate retards on Slashdot."

Lotta people seem to be having trouble reading my post. Here is the key term: default behavior.