Bush NTIA head backs FCC's public safety spectrum plan
If you're concerned about the budget deficit and the national debt, you should support the FCC's plan to build it a public safety broadband network.
In the op-ed I link to above, John Kneuer, a former head of NTIA in the George W. Bush administration explains why this fiscally conservative plan makes the most sense for public safety.
He writes:
"The danger of not acting now is real. If public safety agencies are simply given another band of spectrum, with no plans for funding, and no plans for leveraging commercial networks and technologies, the cause for public safety broadband will be set back years, if not decades."
The smart thing about the FCC's plan is that the revenue from a spectrum auction will completely pay for the construction of a new public safety broadband network. It won't cost taxpayers a dime.
That's why so many Republicans are supporting this idea from the Democratic-led FCC.
As we come off an election where so many promised to work in a bi-partisan way to solve the problems facing the country, it seems to me that this one of the first problems that should be tackled.
