Gotta love these circular arguments....
T28D read what I wrote, cherry picking an argument? It's so you!
No matter which way you cut the cake, Plumbum, you still have the system chosen for you. When I first looked at this argument I was also hoping for UAT and WAAS for very selfish reasons. What "I" could get out of it. However, this is not the political argument.
Bas is quite correct. Affordable broadband is all around us now, both satellite and wireless terrestrial. If we want the goodies we have to put them in ourselves.
If there was one cabability that aviation was screaming out for, it was WAAS!
To think we have launched TWO geosynchronous birds since and rolled out no less than 28 stations linked....for a few cents more... And for national benefit? That does suck the big one!