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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Technology Liberation Front - Latest Comments in A Trillion Here, A Trillion There: Counting the Benefits of Broadband</title><link>http://tlf.disqus.com/</link><description>The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:59:25 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: A Trillion Here, A Trillion There: Counting the Benefits of Broadband</title><link>http://techliberation.com/2005/12/08/a-trillion-here-a-trillion-there-counting-the-benefits-of-broadband/#comment-1444772</link><description>I plead ambiguity on the part of Mr. Will.  I'm most certainly against the subsidy, and he was kind enough to cite me in his piece.  However, passing reference are difficult things, and it was quite clear in the piece where I stood  It was a particularly confusing, since he cited my summary of the other sides arguments.  Here's the piece that got Will started: &lt;a href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/wm891.cfm" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/wm8...&lt;/a&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">James Gattuso</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:59:25 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: A Trillion Here, A Trillion There: Counting the Benefits of Broadband</title><link>http://techliberation.com/2005/12/08/a-trillion-here-a-trillion-there-counting-the-benefits-of-broadband/#comment-1444771</link><description>Meanwhile, no more luminous (and uptight) a figure than George Will is &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/07/AR2005120701891.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;excoriating Mr. Gattuso&lt;/a&gt; for apparently supporting a $3 billion subsidy aimed at greasing the recovery of all this lost consumer welfare.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I told a reporter (of lesser importance and primness) that I wouldn't support it, but I might hold my nose for it . . . .&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do you plead, Gattuso?&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">jimharper</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:56:37 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>