Posted on 01/15/2015 7:27:22 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Obama has called on cities and towns to create their own broadband service for their residents to compete with large corporations.
Obama was in Cedar Rapids, Iowa touting the plan to get states to relax their rules against municipalities setting up their own networks. Cedar Rapids got an exemption from the FCC to create their own networks a few years ago.
Republicans in Congress reacted immediately.
"In Tennessee we have a term to describe people like President Obama — tone-deaf,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said in a statement.
“At a time when Americans think the biggest problem facing our nation today is big government, you would think he'd have gotten the message by now,” she added. “We don't need unelected bureaucrats like FCC [Federal Communications Commission] Chairman Tom Wheeler dictating to our states what they can and can't do with respect to protecting their limited taxpayer dollars and private enterprises.”
In 19 states, there are laws on the books limiting local governments from building out their own municipal Internet services.
The FCC has been asked by two cities — in North Carolina and in Tennessee — to override those laws. Obama on Wednesday urged the FCC to do just that.
“I’m on the side of competition,” Obama said during his speech at a Cedar Falls utility plant.
Supporters of the move say that it would help create more competition for broadband service, and many Democrats cheered Obama’s call. According to the FCC, more than half the country has just one option for high-speed broadband Internet service with download speeds of 25 Mbps or higher.
Critics, however, say that it would amount to Washington intervention in local laws.
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The very definition of fascism.
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The Sociopath-In-Chief is at it again. Heaping on his invasive socialist big-government control of everything. Working hard to leave a radical leftist legacy for his anti-American supporters and handlers.
Nothing new folks, move along now.....SOS.
What you said!
“In Tennessee we have a term to describe people like President Obama — tone-deaf.”
In North Carolina we have a somewhat similar term — POS lying Marxist dog fornicator.
Perfect illustration of what Reagan said, about, tax it, subsidize it, take it over
Spying on people will be much easier.
Free high-speed internet is a human right, in 3...2...1
How about government groceries ?
and people think Comcast sucks.
Once again, politically brilliant.
Web-addicted millennial low-infos who are PO-ed at Verizon and Comcast over their rates will lap this up.
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
- Ronald Reagan
“The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.”
- Ronald Reagan
“The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.”
- Ronald Reagan
They’re slapping legirons on every aspect of our society and economy.
Tried to get an investment loan the other day.
Local banker said “there’s no reason you can’t get this loan other than the 2010 finance regulations that came into effect this year”.
Why?
“I’m on the side of competition,”
well PROVE IT then !!
how does a Municipally run ISP handle COMPETITION? they shut them down
How much more is your stomach supposed to contain before you puke it inside out with this guy?
That’s what I was looking for.
Hope some of our candidates in IOWA will speak up.
Pretty much.
The big-government/big-union/big-corporate crony-fascist complex does not like competition.
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