Posted on 03/13/2015 12:53:43 AM PDT by TigerClaws
The Federal Communications Commission plans to soon begin working on a proposal to subsidize Internet service for low-income consumers by expanding its Lifeline program, which is mocked by conservatives as the "Obamaphone" program.
All three Democrats on the five-member commission have publicly said they want to use federal money to help ensure that all Americans can afford to get online. Lifeline—which despite the Obamaphone nickname was created during the Reagan administration—currently subsidizes only phone service.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
They might get 5 or 10 Mbps down, but they’re not going to be getting the 150 Mbps down that I’m getting ... :-) ...
More free stuff for the Kenyan’s freeloader army.
At what point does it become a ‘basic human right.’
That seems to be the pattern. Something you pay for and work to get. Something you’re given. Something you’re due...
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Oops. I said the above as a joke. But sure enough:
http://www.wired.com/2011/06/internet-a-human-right/
I wonder if this is also why they wanted to regulate the net. If it’s a ‘utility’ it’s something to add to the freebie handout list.
The public library system has free internet and my area’s seven percent sales tax helps fund the library system.
Free internet and movies creates about 80% of the foot traffic in my local library system. They have free
printing too (limited number of pages).
But that requires getting out and leaving home. Remember,
some people live in ‘library deserts’...
By what authority?@?!
Ignore these punks.
Congress? Whats a congress?
These Federal bastards keep stealing from the working people and give our money away so these so called poor people can have free telephones,t.v. and now Internet service.
It makesme wonder why I work at all.There is no incentive for these creatures to get off of their butts and to go and find a job.
The dems love the poor, that’s why they want to make everyone poor.
This is the reason for the attempt to classify the internet as a utility...tax and redistribute after taking your cut (by awarding contracts to cronies for a kickback to the RNC/DNC)...when I first started getting into computers I bought (BOUGHT) an IBM aptiva and I waited for the broadband to be completed in my area and I PAID a premium price to have it. Internet connection is not a necessity and to have these paper pushers even suggest otherwise is the reason I am self-employed and I alone determine what tax I pay (as far as income is concerned) 1. no bank accounts 2. pre-pay credit card under a fictitious name 3. pay cash for everything possible 4. keep anything of real value in someone else’s name (nothing can be taken if you do not legally OWN it) 5. mason jars in the backyard 6. screw this federal behemouth at every chance you can they do not have any love or concern for this great republic except for what they can skim off for themselves....it truly is a free for all until a revolt culminates and the tree of liberty gets fed with these tyrants.
I wonder how much government cash will flow to ‘Team Cable’ to fund this free internet for the poor? You all remember Team Cable, the villains in the Net Neutrality propaganda brainwashing program, right? Any bets? They’ll probably go from enemy of the people to well-paid government accomplice in nothing flat!
10¢ a page at our library.
useless parasites need porn TOO......
THE REAGAN PROGRAM HAS BEEN PERVERTED INTO ANOTHER POLITICAL VOTE BUYER by the Libtards..... tax and spend
But, but, but....that's not FFFFFAAAAAAIIIIIIRRRRRRRR! Faster download speeds are racist!!!!!
You know they don’t need any authority! Just feeeeeeeeel bad and pay up! Then shut your pie hole citizen!
DEFUND/DISMANTLE FCC…
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/organizational-charts-fcc
http://www.alearnedhand.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ALH-FCC-Org-Chart-2010.pdf
Some POSITIVE news…(3-11-2015)
During a March 4 US House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Committee hearing on the FCC’s FY2016 budget, Rep Michael Pompeo (R-KS) pressed Wilkins on whether the FCC intended to close any field offices and eliminate any personnel. Wilkins attempted to dodge offering a direct answer and hedged on whether any cuts were planned.
http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-enforcement-bureau-field-resources-poised-to-shrink
CONgre$$?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_United_States_government
great. The last thing we need is the welfare slackers sitting home, getting high and watching porn all day on the internet. All at our cost.
Here’s a random idea, Why don’t we make poverty so uncomfortable that the slackers will actually work to get out of it, rather than make it a career choice?
We need to restore the shame that goes along with being on the dole.
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