New NTIA administrator owned Cisco stock when Cisco granted coveted NTIA Buy American exemption

Strickling checked the box that says he owns $100-250K of Cisco stock. He also checked the box that says he owns that same level of stock in HP and IBM, which compete with Cisco and resell competitive gear (along with reselling Cisco). He even checked boxes that says he owns higher levels of stock in other companies (Exxon, J&J, TIAA, CREF, etc).

My point? You imply that his "large" position in CSCO influenced his decision to waive the buy American provision for broadband stimulus. I say that his position in CSCO does not represent a large percentage of his portfolio and that Cisco's price moving up or down a few percentage points does not affect his net worth in any material way.

If you want to do some real digging, try calculating what items the $7.2B stimulus would actually be spent on, and who the likely providers of the goods and services actually are. Of the goods, what products are actually manufactured in America? Is it even practical to implement broadband without using imported products? On occasion, you state that Cisco has moved its manufacturing overseas -- dig into that a little more and you will find that it has never had any significant manufacturing capability of its own. It uses contract manufacturers and American CMs (if you can find any) are free to compete for Cisco business.

Disclaimer: I would have to check the same financial disclosure box that Strickling checked when it comes to CSCO, but I am not expecting the broadband stimulus to make me wealthy.

so Brad your response to "Strickling checked the box" which was thoughtful and full of facts and great information, is to respond with, "the Who"?
You've officially become the OLD village idiot. Consider yourself ignored.

Strickling appears to be just another insider/ contributor/ politico.

Let's see how he does if he comes up against something interesing, like Verizon building fiberoptic plant in the US using off shore crews. Like the Guatemalan crew they were using in Chalfont PA. The crew probably had green cards and was sanitized through sub contracting. I just don't like the idea of American having to compete with foreign labor in their own front yards.

Will he be a champion of the worker or a political slub? Stay tuned, but please not on FIOS.

THIS ATROCIOUS BEHAVIOR MUST BE STOPP--oh wait, they're just working their retirement. Nevermind, nothing to see here.