Good Politics

And by that title I mean, "This is what politicians ought the be doing, and this is the way they they should be speaking about it." To give you some background on his speech.

Time Warner Cable implemented a plan called “Internet consumption billing” in the district represented by Congressman Eric Massa, who is a Democrat serving his first term in the House. The film clip is his response, speaking to constituents regarding the plan, which Time Warner has since abandoned.

"I plan on putting the entire full force of my incumbency, and all of the risk associated with that, to stopping this very, very ill thought out decision by Time Warner."

"This is a job killing initiative that will fundamentally put The United States in the third world category in the access of the information that we need to move forward in the twenty-first century."

"...who download more than their fair share of information. Who has set the limit on information? Since when does some executive get to say that you're getting too much data from the Internet?" He goes on to talk about farmers downloading satellite images for information, "..and cut their costs in half, and now we're going to say 'I'm sorry, it's more than a gigabyte?'"

"...you have to pay your fair share. Ladies and gentlemen, there are no additional costs associated with the downloading of additional electrons over the Internet."

"This is bigger than just a malformed billing idea. And it will not stand."

I wish we had more representatives like this. A good speaker, yes, but additionally one who researches the concepts and knows what he is talking about. More importantly, one who represents the people of his district and not corporate interests.



Listen to the clip to hear an outstanding speaker voicing good policy.