Spoken like a true neo-con who doesn’t know and doesn’t care to know the reason they want to keep the WIFi.
NOLA is hoping that that the system will aid businesses and help lure them back to the city.
But I suppose you don’t support that either and would prefer to see NOLA bulldozed and forgotten.

“as much as i loathe monopolies..” STFU. What fetid and typical neocon hypocrisy. you probably believe in states rights but cheer when the FED tells the states what laws they can and cannot enact such as in medical marijuana, assisted suicide, etc. You probably preach fiscal conservatism and yet still support that fool president and his record deficit spending problem. You probably preach from some high horse moral superiority while your party self destructs from its own lies, corruption and ethics scandals. You might want to pull your head out your anus and read a history book- this time you speak of in the past when people “fended for themselves” was not a status quo to be settled with, it was the bleedingly hard beginnings of society being built, not the pinnacle of our civiliazation. It has only been very recently that the power has not been national, and that the phonelines were not owned, operated and maintained by the FEDs- who do you think built them. Who do you think built the the highway system, it wasn’t some lone conservative, foul mouthed, heartless citizen such as yourself building it on his own, or are you “too lazy” or “too stupid” to crack a book and educate yourself on these facts. It was “fucking liberal” social programs that built this country, ever heard of the New Deal? Without the Government fullfilling it’s duty to protect the American people and their way of life by stepping in to create jobs through public works projects we would all be in a very different post-depression world. Do you like the dams that provide you with power, social project. The highways, social project. How about all those power lines and phone lines. I suppose we all should have independently started building our own hydroelectric dams and power infrastructure during the depression but the government was kind enough to step in and stop the country from disentegrating as it is doing now in New Orleans. Yeah, you are right, all my tax dollars are being wasted by the government, how dare they make public the “ridiculous” internet they created with my money, they should take it back for military and governmental use only and quite wasting it on me and the world for that matter. Lets shut down the roads and the phone lines and reserve them for infantry and tanks and ICBM’s ONLY. If you want to drive down the highway on your cell phone with powered street lights above you build them yourselves you “fucking liberals” yeah thats right! You want to know what happened to the days when people fended for themselves, i’ll tell you, they were called the dark ages and before that prehistory when we lived in caves, we progressed past those day and built civil societies and joined together to work towards a better world, most of us did anyways. I hear there are still places in Africa and Asia where people still “fend for themselves” maybe they’ll let you join them, good riddance fool. Enjoy fending for yourself with malaria and the four different versions of hepatitus you got from crapping in a hole and eating tainted meat, and good luck checking your email.