{"id":12336,"date":"2012-02-22T13:59:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12336"},"modified":"2012-02-22T13:59:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:59:24","slug":"when-the-government-tries-to-decide-who-prospers-nobody-prospers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12336","title":{"rendered":"When The Government Tries To Decide Who Prospers Nobody Prospers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/02\/22\/documents-show-obamas-fcc-used-regulatory-muscle-to-destroy-lightsquareds-competition\/\">Daily Caller<\/a>\u00a0posted an article showing how the Obama Administration interfered in the market on behalf of the company LightSquared.<\/p>\n<p>The article deals with the delay of permits to GlobalStar after an earthquake in Italy impacted its supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>During the months while GlobalStar\u2019s request languished in the FCC\u2019s slow-moving bureaucracy, the agency was helping to finalize the sale of SkyTerra to Harbinger. That company would ultimately become LightSquared.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>On Feb. 26, 2010,\u00a0one week before the FCC acknowledged GlobalStar\u2019s request, Harbinger and the FCC agreed on conditions that would forbid LightSquared from selling to Verizon and AT&amp;T any\u00a0spectrum it would later acquire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The delay allowed LightSquared to move forward while GlobalStar waited.<\/p>\n<p>Who profited by this delay? The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Also during those late spring months in 2010, several advocacy groups funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros were advocating for the adoption of \u201copen-access\u201d Internet rules. Soros\u2019 Open Society Institute has donated more than $1 million to the four organizations that comprise the Public Interest Spectrum Coalition. He is reported to have invested $200 million personally in Harbinger.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to bring back an honest free market. The Obama Administration is obviously not playing by the rules.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=ba661466-7cd2-44ce-ad95-6dd8db304540\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Daily Caller\u00a0posted an article showing how the Obama Administration interfered in the market on behalf of the company LightSquared. 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