Wal-Mart has brought lower prices to people, but some of Wal-Mart's labor practices are questionable.

[But other critics blame the FCC.] Hire some people at the FCC who are not lawyers, ... If they got somebody in there who was not Al Gore's next-door neighbor in prep school but who actually knows something about this stuff, then this kind of thing wouldn't happen.

The plan is stupid because it's subsidizing Chevy Chase, Md., and Greenwich, Conn., as well as the inner cities. Universal service was never meant to subsidize places where the average price of a house is $800,000.

Hire some people at the FCC who are not lawyers. If they got somebody in there who was not Al Gore's next-door neighbor in prep school but who actually knows something about this stuff, then this kind of thing wouldn't happen.