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As a former Oregon Student Association board member, I can tell you that to reach this 40% goal, the state legislature is going to have to step-up funding for higher ed.  This is perhaps is the greatest of the obsticals facing us.  I'm not naieve in that I know money does not grow on trees and the state budget is what it is.  40% b.a. or b.s. holders state wide will be a long, hard trudge in even the best of circumstances.  

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Why, in the supposedly most developed nation in the world, should anyone still be paying for internet when in various Asian and European countries, high-speed internet is broadcast for free?  Is this a problem of logisitcs, cost or the sheer size of the U.S.?  Or is it simple unwillingness on the part of the telecommunication companies?

I am a rural resident and business owner and I would love to have access to high-speed, however, the greater question I would like to have answered is why not take a forward-thinking economic development approach and make internet access free to all?

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