Posted on 11/09/2011 8:57:24 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
NEW YORK (AP) — Cable companies said Wednesday that they will offer Internet service for $9.95 per month to homes with children that are eligible for free school lunches.
The offer will start next summer and is part of an initiative the Federal Communications Commission cobbled together to get more U.S. homes connected to broadband.
One third, or about 35 million homes, don't have broadband. That affects people's ability to educate themselves and find and apply for jobs, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
You know, we used to not give people free stuff so they would work to get the better things in life. Giving people free stuff really turns them into slaves.
Sounds like the Obama administration leaned on internet providers who will just pass the cost along to their paying customers. Hey, if you don't have computer access, go to the library.
Sure, like 85% of the kids on free lunches don’t have lying parents.
The poor can go to hell!!!
Make your own way in this world or lie down in the street and die!
I want special treatment too,
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You will get it, you will have the privileged treatment of paying more to support the redistribution to ‘poor homes’.
Let them earn their own cable money.
This is discrimination against people who don’t exactly meet their carefully parsed criteria.
But after all - They don’t want to just come out and say they are offering this discounted service only to non-whites living on the taxpayers backs.
Why do people deserve this just for being “poor”? Other subscribers are going to pay for this. we’re already paying gas and electric fees for “poor” folks that run their heaters at 90 degrees and instead of turning them down, open windows. Not making that up, I’ve had several installers tell me this is what they’ve seen.
more like bread and porn.
Follow the money: which big Democrat donor will benefit from all the incoming Federal dollars to bankroll this boondoggle? Probably several. Occupy Democrat Grifters!
When was the last time you were job hunting?
My DSL is 40 bucks a month for 256k limited to 10 gig a month.
Alaska rates, best deal around.
“You know, we used to not give people free stuff so they would work to get the better things in life. Giving people free stuff really turns them into slaves.”
Truth to power there brother. All by design.
That explains why my cable bill went up.
Will their computers arrive before or after they’re wired for broadband?
All of us already pay for this. Look on your cable/internet phone bill under universal service fee. If you want to read more see my article (some call it a blog) from Aug of this year
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-new-york/anatomy-of-a-giveaway
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