Edwards backs Google's Big Government spectrum subsidy plan

Bloomberg reports that Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards "backs Google's push for wholesale leasing of airwaves."

Let's cut to the chase here.

Google has proposed a self-serving idea for real-time auctions of spectrum that might be able work in five to ten years time, but is not at all relevant to, or practical for, the auction scheduled for next winter.

• Google's idea is really a clever diversion and stalking horse for wireless net neutrality -- a sweet-sounding name for government-subsidized free spectrum or "corporate welfare for dotcom billionaires."  
• More importantly, Google's proposal would effectively undermine the FCC's ability to raise the maximum amount in the upcoming 700 MHz auction for American taxpayers.
• Presidential candidate Edwards appears more interested in pandering to powerful Democratic special interests and fundraisers that can contribute to his lagging campaign, than being a good steward of taxpayer money.  
• And who might those special interests be that Mr. Edwards is pandering to?
• Google, whose employees in the last election cycle contributed 98% to Democratic candidates;
• Al Gore, Google's senior Advisor, (who is now seriously rich, but quietly so, from his Google options) and who is ringleader of "Google's Poodles" Google's very own astroturf group the "Open Internet Coalition."  and
• Former Clinton-Gore FCC Chairman, Reed Hundt, Chairman of Frontline spectrum company, funded in part by Google-related money, which is seeking to rig the upcoming FCC spectrum auction for their own commercial benefit under the guise of an "open Internet."

Don't be fooled by the clever diversions surrounding the FCC's upcoming 700 MHz auction.

• "Google's Poodles," the net neutrality special interests, are just trying to rebrand their corporate welfare scheme as an "Open Internet" which is their warm-fuzzy codeword for :
• Bandwidth, spectrum, and digital content that are free of cost; and 
• The Internet being public property, a utility, or a Government-run program -- not the free market that it is today.    

Bottomline: Google wants the FCC to rig the auction by making some or all of the spectrum to be subject to wireless net neutrality i.e. be free of cost to Google and others who seek the implicit subsidy of a Government-funded free spectrum ride.

• Its shameful that a company like Google, with  90% gross profit margins, is first in line at the Government trough for corporate welfare subsidies.
• Sooooouuuiiiiieeee!