Ajit Pai killed rules that could have helped Florida recover from hurricane

[LynnInDenver]

The radical deregulation of the telephone industry, despite the lessons of previous natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy, guaranteed that providers would chose to cut costs and increase profits rather than invest in hardening networks or emergency preparedness.

Deregulation is not the sole cause of this, of course. The guarantee of a federal disaster bailout makes it easier and cheaper for them to simply take the loss and rebuild than it is to build a network that can resist this kind of damage.

We need to be cutting corporate welfare, not personal welfare.

Unfortunately, they've done a good effort on educating those in power that the corporate welfare is needed for job generation, even while most people watching the economics say it isn't quite working like that. Also, I'm of the opinion that, like insisting it's impossible to pay a living wage, if you need tax breaks and incentives? THEN YOU'RE ACTUALLY NOT A PROFITABLE COMPANY. It's basically another way to "cook the books".