Maybe we should start using stimulus money to build some type of theme park, maybe on a remote island.

Having a plan in place that encourages a large number of signups and disconnects ("churn") as you suggest with "no contract" does nothing but make each subscriber more expensive to provision and creates a situation where system planners can never accurately perform capacity planning. Believe it or not the call detail records for both voice and data are quite expensive to maintain.

Also "bringing your own phone" can cause a customer service nightmare where people expect to use their POS phones they brought 10 years ago, for which Reps cannot all be fully trained to answer questions. This then leads to all sorts of industry analysts claiming customer satisfaction is garbage when it's really the customer's shooting themselves in the foot.

I work in IT within the Wireless industry. On average it takes about 1 year and a half to break even on each mobile subscriber and get to the point of making any money. Most of this is because the wireless companies are heavily subsidizing the cost of the hardware to get you in as a paying customer. You can rant and rave all you like about the cost of wireless service, but it's the B2B sales that make the most money, not cheap joe the consumer.

I believe a loosely coupled string of IF statements could have governed better than Bush.