The bipartisan Affordable Connectivity Program — part of a $14 billion effort to expand broadband access to hard-to-reach areas — glitches as the Biden administration can’t get rural people (nor cable companies) to take the money. Can you help President Biden sell free cash to the poor?
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15 replies on “Shut Up and Take My Money: Why Biden Can’t Sell Free Cash to Poor People for Broadband Access”
I can tell you that in my area you only need to be about a mile outside of town for internet speeds and providers to drop off a cliff, I can see the Detroit skyline, what’s left of it, from my window and I have only 1 option for internet and the fastest speed I can get is 5 MBs.
Of course they’re not collecting the data to see how many people have broadband after they take advantage of the program compared to how many had it when the program launched. Programs are put in place so people can feel good about the ideas they come up with the ‘help’ the poor and disadvantaged. Anything that can potentially show that their ideas are a failure would be a real buzzkill, so of course it’s totally unnecessary. This is the group that wants to eliminate tests, grades and standards from the classroom.
The Cable companies aren’t interested? Think about the Rural Electrification Act. The power companies were told they had to provide power to everyone who wanted it, even in the most rural areas and were provided low cost loans to do this. Instead of running cables 30 miles to some ranch that never had electricity and really weren’t interested they bought small wind generators and installed them at homes that had always been off grid. They came out and installed one at my great uncles ranch on the Texas/Oklahoma border even though he never asked. In the late 40’s he gave the ranch to his eldest son who immediately called the power company to hook up their house to the generator. They ran cables to the house instead since power was now available nearby. The generator was there for over 10 years and never even hooked to the house. A great use of our government handouts.
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Let’s see. What else didn’t we need, in addition to this stupid infrastructure bill, that resulted in more government control? Masks. Lockdowns. School closings. White men as our most significant domestic terrorist threat. Diversity training. Useless inflationary spending. Vaccine passports. Vaccine mandates. Sexualizing our children in the name of inclusion, diversity and, of course, concern for the LGBT community. Saving the planet for our own good. Closing churches for health reasons. Censorship through Big Tech and the Disinformation Governance Board to prevent us from hearing misinformation. Deferring to the global WHO instead of our own CDC. Burdensome health and safety regulations for entrepreneurs. Mail-in balloting for, you know, health reasons.
Coming soon…digital currency as the bad men use cash.
The Left hates math. When you measure something you create accountability. With accountability comes responsibility. And the two words that absolutely do not exist in the minds of any Leftist is “I’m responsible”.
Unless it’s takng credit for someone else’s accomplishments, of course.
I suspect this has absolutely nothing to do with providing broadband to rural people in poverty. The possible ulterior motive? Building out the connectivity to rural areas so there is nowhere for anyone to go to escape the globalist fascists’ prying eyes and facial recognition perhaps? I’m assuming it would also provide the infrastructure needed for the grid to connect their driverless electric vehicles which they can turn off at will should you step out of line.
Just spitballing here, but if you’re thinking like the World Economic Forum tyrants—-which would carry a lot more tinfoil hattedness (yes, I just made that word up and proud of it) if they all didn’t have a stated purpose, global organization and evidence of worldwide coordination via the COVID response in various countries and deferment to the WHO, then you have an insatiable need for control. Being sure to cover the remote areas would make perfect sense.
The other aspect that makes sense is their professing a deep and abiding care for our rural poor while evidencing a complete lack of concern for rural America. We’re all “deplorables” remember? This fits like a glove their modus operandi of unabashed hypocrisy while aggregating power…no concern for the environment, black people, children, families and everything else the globalist fascists pretend to care deeply about under the umbrella of ESG social credit scores—-total equity, zero carbon emissions, zero pandemic deaths (currently working on a Pandemic Treaty which obligates all countries to be subservient to the WHO by May, 2024).
Oh and then there’s all the other lies by the Biden regime including the trillion or so in infrastructure spending most of which had nothing to do with infrastructure unless you adopt their newspeak definition.
So no. I’m not falling for this banana in the tailpipe. Not for one second. I’d put money on the fact that this has absolutely nothing to do with providing broadband to rural people in poverty.
I think that is the best Steve Green mug I have seen. CHOAM Company for the win!
Scott – that last bit says everything we need to know about a government run program. If a “journalist” were to actually ask the following two questions of the new press secretary that would be a miracle.
1 – regarding the 14B program to get broadband access to rural area, how many US citizens currently do not have access to the internet with broadband speeds?
2 – After spending the $14B, how much will that number be reduced.
We all know that neither question could be answered.
Please Ron. Stop ruining the Biden regime’s argument for intentional and purposeless inflationary spending by introducing a whole bunch of facts.
Where’s your sense of decorum and civility?
HA! Yep, leftist hate facts!
So basically when Federal Programs are instituted without a way to measure the success or failure of such a program that is an indication that it is just a money dump. Typical Federal program then.
Steve, if you take the monies in cash, the Feds’ll just arrest you on suspicion and take the monies back.
And he’ll have to sign documents swearing the cash didn’t come from a criminal organization. Being an honest man, Steve could not sign.
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