At least one of the new people advising obama shares his socialist view of government.
…and before you say anything, I am aware that not all utilities are governmental entities.

Susan Crawford, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School and one half of the new Obama Federal Communications Commission Review transition team… is also a net neutrality advocate. For what it’s worth, her new partner Kevin Werbach is as well.

Both are highly-regarded outside-the-Beltway experts in telecom policy, and they’ve both been pretty harsh critics of the Bush administration’s telecom policies in the past year.

Their jobs will be to review the agency and arm the president, vice president and prospective agency leader with all the information needed to make key decisions as they prepare to take over.

The choice of the duo strongly signals an entirely different approach to the incumbent-friendly telecom policymaking that’s characterized most of the past eight-years at the FCC.

So, things might be changing, and not just on the interwebs.

Last March Ms. Crawford opined on the U.S. broadband roll-out:

“We’re not doing at all well for reasons that mostly have to do with the fact that we failed to have a US industrial policy pushing forward high-speed internet access penetration, and there’s been completely inadequate competition in this country for high speed internet access,” she said.

And in a final introductory statement during her talk (that’s likely to send shivers down the spines of telecom company executives) she said that she believes internet access is a “utility.”

“This is like water, electricity, sewage systems: Something that each and all Americans need to succeed in the modern era. We’re doing very badly, and we’re in a dismal state,” she said at the time.

So at least one of the people advising obama shares his socialist view of business. Make it a utility! A must have! Cut out the business owners! Way to create jobs… oh, government jobs? Well, then.

A socialist government seems to me like Wal-Mart when it moves into a small town. I’ve seen it happen… and yes, it’s capitalism, all right… but the kind that sucks the wind out of your lungs.

Wally World moves in… and businesses start to close. Pretty soon downtown fartenberry is dead; noone can meet the low, low prices… and everyone has to go to work for… yep, Wal-Mart.