That’s how messed up we are as a nation: We have given away control of our public utilities, natural-monopoly industries, telecommunications and power to foreigners.

In contrast, not a single one of the so-called Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan), neither Japan nor China, has done this. Except for the Philippines and Thailand, the telecom firms in all other Asian countries are an industry under the control of state enterprises, or firms owned by their citizens.

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