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Posted on 01/12/2026 6:57:28 AM PST by artichokegrower
Even government programs can get strangled by red tape. Think back to 2021. That's when President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. It directed more than $1 trillion toward transportation and infrastructure projects. That included more than $42 billion to expand broadband internet.
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A letter to the editor, that’s all.
“A letter to the editor, that’s all.”
Nope. From the Tribune staff.
And amazing that the Bee reprinted it.
“But kudos to the Trump administration for ensuring taxpayer money is being spent far more efficiently.”
And kudos to this editorial board for admitting the truth!
One might think that the most important characteristic for those seeking to undertake this endeavor would be their ability to do the job. Not so among the country’s intersectionality-obsessed leftists.
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/us-viewpoints/article314287961.html#storylink=cpy
The government never should have subsidized broadband access. Private companies - motivated by profit - were already expanding coverage. But kudos to the Trump administration for ensuring taxpayer money is being spent far more efficiently.
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/us-viewpoints/article314287961.html#storylink=cpy
Your post expresses pretty much how I view the situation.
Having competition in a profit-based capitalistic society will ALWAYS outperform a government based endeavor.
The Wright Brothers in their quest to be the first to achieve powered flight proved it by wisely and efficiently using their own time, effort, and money to pursue that goal and achieve it, decisively outperforming Samuel Langley who had government backing with other people’s money, and a lot more of it to use.
Elon Musk has put NASA to shame, and that really opened my eyes. I never thought that would be possible, but he has done it in dramatic fashion.
And the expansion of broadband access by private companies improving the infrastructure and spreading to wider coverage in the quest for more profit and greater market share outperforms anything the government can do.
“States receiving funds had to consult with unions, Native American tribes and ‘local community organizations’ on their plans to expand broadband,” The Wall Street Journal noted. Further, the Biden team demanded that broadband companies prioritize the hiring of a litany of supposedly underrepresented groups, including prisoners, racial minorities and LGBTQI+ individuals
Bidenomics!
Two liberal newspapers expose what a corrupt idiot Joe Biden was.
So what else is new?
Wonder how much of that $1 trillion has disappeared.
I suspect a LOT of it.
Bkmk
It would have been significantly cheaper if the Government bought everyone who doesn’t have high speed internet access a Starlink terminal for a couple of hundred dollars, politically probably not viable but huge cost savings for everyone
How does a NASA contractor put NASA to shame? That makes absolutely no sense at all.
NASA took a chance on SpaceX, a new company with new ideas, cut them a contract (and then another one, and another one ...) and it has all paid off handsomely.
10% for THE BIG GUY!
Wow, that's some opener. Government programs are nothing BUT red tape.
Because SpaceX is a contractor, before making a blanket statement the question should be asked: “Contractor for what?”
SpaceX is contracted for various services, not for the launch platforms themselves, and are contracted to produce hardware and provide services that NASA needs because NASA cannot do those things themselves: Commercial Crew Program (CCP), Commercial Resupply Services (CRS), and the Artemis Moon Landing Contract.
SpaceX develops them. SpaceX builds them. SpaceX launches them. SpaceX provides the services that NASA needs. I don’t see how you characterize them as simply being a contractor to NASA, which is unable to build hardware in any meaningful way if launches into space are any metric to measure by.
SpaceX is a private company with their own intellectual property and development (albeit with input on what a “customer” like NASA needs) and SpaceX has their own project plans and processes for development which put NASA to shame. NASA is the main driver and coordinator for the entire Artemis effort and contracts with other entities for goods and services.
Since 2008, NASA has contracted with SpaceX for somewhere in the area of $15 Billion dollars, which comes out to around $850 million dollars a year.
NASA has failed miserably at that project planning their spaceflight needs. And SpaceX succeeds in being a contractor with NASA when NASA needs it because it limits its exposure under a contract with NASA to the bare minimum input of specification and active participation of NASA project planning.
In other words, they can succeed in spite of any contractual arrangement with NASA by firewalling their project planning at SpaceX to minimum intrusion by the bloated, inefficient, and ineffective project planners at NASA.
The "Two liberal newspapers expose..." part of that sentence is news enough. Yeah, it was the Bee, but Sacramento, not Babylon.
That’s a lot of words to say that SpaceX builds flight hardware for NASA, like contractors have done since Mercury. NASA has NEVER built hardware. Atlas, Titan, Saturn, Delta, and, yes, Falcon-9 are/were all built by contractors. (”Who built Redstone?” is a slightly complicated question.)
This isn’t NASA being “shamed”.
This is NASA hiring contractors to do what they do best, as NASA has always done.
If you want to talk about someone being “shamed”, look to Boeing. They fscked up big time.
Well, you and I can agree on Boeing. How far they have fallen.
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