Good ol' George Dubya has opened his mouth again. This time, he's calling for universal broadband deployment by 2007. Excellent idea, right? Well, sure, but then you're discounting the overwhelming odds that the U.S. government will screw things up along the way so badly that the goal will be lost in the reams of bureaucratic red tape.

Exactly what this guy talks about in this short piece put up in response to Dubya's "announcement."

"While there may be a case for providing vouchers for low-income households that would not otherwise be able to afford broadband service, the history of telecommunications subsidies shows that the vast majority of money will go to rural states and come from urban areas. This means that low-income residents of San Jose, Harlem and Washington, D.C., will not be the recipients of the majority of subsidy dollars. Instead, they will be asked to pay higher prices to subsidize high-cost rural residents, many of whom can much more easily afford to pay for broadband service."

Can you say "Universal Connectivity Fee" boys & girls?