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Yes, ‘ObamaNet’ Is Here: Meet ConnectHome, the ‘Free’ Internet That Costs Taxpayers Much
pjmedia.com ^
| 7/24/2015
| Alex Pournelle
Posted on 07/26/2015 8:03:18 AM PDT by rktman
On July 15 in Durant, Oklahoma, President Obama announced ConnectHome, describing it as:
… a new initiative with communities, the private sector, and federal government to expand high speed broadband to more families across the country.
ConnectHome is aimed at low-income areas with little broadband uptake, expanding several earlier federal programs. The headlines are about connecting the poor to the modern convenience of the internet, but they don’t mention who’s paying for it. As with most federal programs, you are.
Is ConnectHome worth the costs, and what are they?
So far, the ConnectHome website is thin on details. (It’s even thinner on purchase options; more about that in a moment.) The White House announcement states only that ConnectHome will be grant-funded, to the tune of $150 million. However, there is nothing on how the grants themselves will be funded. I presume that new or redirected HUD grants, rather than FCC-mandated taxes, are a possibility. The announcement says little about how these grants will be administered and spent, other than via EveryoneOn and US Ignite (more about those entities below).
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: 2016election; blackkk; connecthome; demagogicparty; election2016; entitled; fcc; internet; kenyanbornmuzzie; memebuilding; mofreestuff; netneutrality; obamanet; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; redistribution; reparations; soma; whiteprivilege
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Is this a great country or what! Free access for some folks to further hack and scam and lie, cheat and steal, paid for out of the o'bama stash. Well it is free right?
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:03:19 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
Free Online Porn for all!!!!
To: rktman
Now the local drug dealers will be able to source customers with ease, just like those Silk Road elitists.
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:07:07 AM PDT
by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
To: rktman
All it costs is $150,000,000.00, and your freedom.
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:07:17 AM PDT
by
null and void
(If the government can't protect the Marines, how can we expect it to protect us?)
To: rktman
Does this include the rural areas? ...or just the inner cities?
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:07:24 AM PDT
by
ncpatriot
To: rktman
In a very short time in this country, if you’re not going to be very rich, you’re better off being poor.
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:07:32 AM PDT
by
Paulie
(America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
To: rktman
I am wondering, who gets the big money out of this. Internet Solyndra?
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:09:06 AM PDT
by
Tupelo
(Corrupt politician McCain trumps war hero McCain.)
To: rktman
When the internet was newer a friend raised capital and started up an ISP. He was doing great until the city of Tallahassee decided that everybody should have free internet. The public free ISP ran him out of business.
I don’t know if it still exists as Comcast became an ISP and pretty much sewed up the market. I’d think that Comcast could not have grown their market if the city was still giving away free access.
To: rktman
So now they have free internet but no computers.guess what we will be paying for next?
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:09:30 AM PDT
by
CGASMIA68
To: Paulie
In a very short time in this country, if you’re not going to be very rich, you’re better off being poor.It's time to get right with God, people. Obviously the goal is to create as many government dependents as possible. God has told us straight up that He is a jealous God. He wants us to depend on Him. Nobody else.
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:10:27 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Paulie
It won’t be long before po folk will be living right next to you in your lily white neighborhood. Gov’t could easily require you to take off the security on your server so these new neighbors can really have high-speed internet.
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:13:38 AM PDT
by
umgud
To: Texas Eagle
Thank you for that reminder.
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:16:41 AM PDT
by
TribalPrincess2U
(0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
To: TribalPrincess2U
Your welcome. Spread the word.
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:19:18 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: TribalPrincess2U
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:19:56 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: rktman
More government/business cronyism. The broadband companies will love it.
To: Tupelo
I am wondering, who gets the big money out of this. Internet Solyndra? Big money? Think bigger...
"Ah! Here's the ObamaNet network specs. You're not going to believe the servers they're hooking it to!"
[Officer]"So what? You'll just get EBT cards off of it."
"No, you fool! It's not the ObamaNet! It's what I can route to!"
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:25:04 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
To: rktman
To: rktman
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:43:13 AM PDT
by
gattaca
(Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
To: Buttons12
You gotta love # 2 on their list. More diversity training for everybody.
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:43:33 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
To: Paulie
In a very short time in this country, if you’re not going to be very rich, you’re better off being poor. I'm afraid that time has already arrived.
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posted on
07/26/2015 8:54:20 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Hillary is as believable as Sharknado 3. Oh Hell No!)
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