The unrealized policy goal of universal internet access
Democrats believe that every American - regardless of income, geography, race, or disability - should be able to reach across a computer keyboard, and reach the vast new worlds of knowledge, commerce, and communication that are available at the touch of a fingertip.
That is why Democrats fought for the e-rate to wire every classroom and library to the Internet. In the next four years, we must finish connecting the job and then go further.
We must launch a new crusade - calling on the resources of government, employers, the high-tech industry, community organizations, and unions - to move toward full Internet access in every home, for every family, all across the United States. We must make sure that no family or community is left out. We must not rest until Internet access is universal.
Reaching back to revive an idea promoted by the man he beat for the
White House, President Bush urged Friday that affordable high-speed
Internet access be available to all Americans by 2007, saying it was
essential to the nation’s economic growth.
Bush traveled to the
Southwest largely to promote home ownership but spoke briefly about
Internet access in remarks reminiscent of 2000 Democratic presidential
nominee Al Gore’s call for an “information superhighway” available to
all Americans.
"We’ve got crumbling roads and bridges; a power grid that wastes too much energy; an incomplete high-speed broadband network that prevents a small business owner in rural America from selling her products all over the world.”
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