Miss America:

Here in the U.S., when we talk about ‘universal service,’ we’re talking about making sure that everyone has a voice dial tone. We have really fallen down in the list. When the countries that are ahead of us talk about ‘universal service,’ they’re talking about universal broadband deployment. In the last decade, the United States has slipped from leading the world to the 16th in the world. So our agenda guarantees that every American will have affordable access to broadband, and we intend to achieve it in five years.

In order for us to be competitive, it is necessary for us to have energy independence. The technology is there and we intend to achieve energy independence — it’s about our competitiveness, it’s about our national security, and we intend to achieve energy independence within ten years. We can do it.

We cannot talk about competitiveness with our companies or our country unless we talk about health care. This is the central issue in terms of security for American families. Democrats have a proposal for health care for all Americans, and we intend to do so within five years.

That’s the ticket! Total broadband in five years and a health care plan to be announced! Hurrah! (Normally we don’t cover things like this, but it is just so funny.)

UPDATE

Adding to the ridiculousness of the proposal is the intuitively obvious fact that the countries where broadband is more common (and not that much more common, by the way) are those countries where people are clustered together. What a dope.

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