free trade (Score 1)

With all due respect to some of the past posters, our economy has hardly collapsed. The stock market has taken a beating of late but- despite popular misconception- Wall Street and The Economy are not exactly one in the same. This is a glitch compared to a serious depression and we are still the richest country in the world by magnitudes. Also, the government mandating anything is usually a bad idea. You want to talk about lack of competition, lets talk about the Big Government being bound by law to use one competitor. If apple or microsoft or anyone else can supply a better or more relevant product, do you really want to deny your government the ability to pursue that option? Im not saything they can, just that making it law is as anti-competetive as you can possibly get.