The following article was written by AFP-Arkansas Director Teresa Oelke.

The city of Siloam Springs, Arkansas has decided that the time is right to go into cable services business, including internet, voice and cable television.

Other cities across the country decided they could also do a better job than private businesses at providing communications’ services to the public and, of course, make a lot of money doing it. They were wrong.

Wilson, Mooresville and Davidson, North Carolina are a great lesson that government doesn’t do things better than the private sector, although it seems only government needs to learn this lesson.

AFP-Arkansas Director Teresa Oelke

We spend more money than we take in and now we need to borrow more money to pay our creditors. Should we cut spending? Should we raise taxes? Should we do both? The answer stems from whether you believe we have a taxing problem or a spending problem in Washington, DC.
I think few will disagree that President George Bush spent too much money. For his part, President Bush added an average of $607 billion per year during his presidency to our deficit.