Why is the USDA paying for people to get high speed internet?

[Harpy Eagle]

USDA Opens Application Portal for New ReConnect Rural Broadband Infrastructure Program

These funds will enable the federal government to partner with the private sector and rural communities to build modern broadband infrastructure in areas with insufficient internet service.

Why is this the job of the Fed Govt?????

 

[Likkmee]

Check the price of beanz before they pick ?

 

[ozro]

I don't know how it became the taxpayer's job. That from one who would, in theory, benafit.
I can tell you though that we already bought broadband on the Navajo and Zuni.

Personally I think it is suspect, in that I mean it seems there are ulterior motives.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

I thought this issue was visited years ago by Al Gore. He instituted a tax on our service providers which of course, we end up paying for. It was for the same thing: providing technology to rural areas.

Capitol Comment 197 - Al Gore’s Hidden Phone Tax: Bad Economics, Bad Politics | FreedomWorks

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

USDA Opens Application Portal for New ReConnect Rural Broadband Infrastructure Program

These funds will enable the federal government to partner with the private sector and rural communities to build modern broadband infrastructure in areas with insufficient internet service.

Why is this the job of the Fed Govt?????

Because the Federal government has resources state and local jurisdictions do not.

Because such projects benefit rural states and jurisdictions, benefitting local economies, and in turn benefitting the Nation as a whole.

And because Americans pay income taxes for these services.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Why is the USDA paying for people to get high speed internet?

Because FUCK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, that's why.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

USDA Opens Application Portal for New ReConnect Rural Broadband Infrastructure Program

These funds will enable the federal government to partner with the private sector and rural communities to build modern broadband infrastructure in areas with insufficient internet service.

Why is this the job of the Fed Govt?????

Because the Federal government has resources state and local jurisdictions do not.

Because such projects benefit rural states and jurisdictions, benefitting local economies, and in turn benefitting the Nation as a whole.

And because Americans pay income taxes for these services.

The Fed Govt was more than a trillion dollars in the hole last year...we do not have the resources for such things.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

I thought this issue was visited years ago by Al Gore. He instituted a tax on our service providers which of course, we end up paying for. It was for the same thing: providing technology to rural areas.

Capitol Comment 197 - Al Gore’s Hidden Phone Tax: Bad Economics, Bad Politics | FreedomWorks

This is a 100% Trump/Repub program...Congress first appropriated funds for the new Rural e-Connectivity Pilot Program, known as ReConnect, in 2018.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Why is the USDA paying for people to get high speed internet?

Because FUCK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, that's why.

Because it's not their money to spend, it's ours. After all, what would you have bought by the end of the night if I gave you my Amazon password and said buy anything you like and as much as you want by midnight?

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

USDA Opens Application Portal for New ReConnect Rural Broadband Infrastructure Program

These funds will enable the federal government to partner with the private sector and rural communities to build modern broadband infrastructure in areas with insufficient internet service.

Why is this the job of the Fed Govt?????

Because the Federal government has resources state and local jurisdictions do not.

Because such projects benefit rural states and jurisdictions, benefitting local economies, and in turn benefitting the Nation as a whole.

And because Americans pay income taxes for these services.

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution that grants Congress a right, of expending on articles of benevolent, the money of their constituents."
James Madison

 

[whitehall]

It doesn't sound like that big of a deal to me. When you consider that the federal government continues to fund colleges that have been caught up in a cheating scandal, a couple of bucks for rural folks to access high speed internet doesn't seem so bad.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Why is the USDA paying for people to get high speed internet?

Because FUCK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, that's why.

Because it's not their money to spend, it's ours. After all, what would you have bought by the end of the night if I gave you my Amazon password and said buy anything you like and as much as you want by midnight?

and come next Nov, you will vote for them again and they will keep doing it....

 

[Moonglow]

USDA Opens Application Portal for New ReConnect Rural Broadband Infrastructure Program

These funds will enable the federal government to partner with the private sector and rural communities to build modern broadband infrastructure in areas with insufficient internet service.

Why is this the job of the Fed Govt?????

Building infrastructure for online sales...

 

[Moonglow]

It doesn't sound like that big of a deal to me. When you consider that the federal government continues to fund colleges that have been caught up in a cheating scandal, a couple of bucks for rural folks to access high speed internet doesn't seem so bad.

We got fiber optic when the feds were here in our neck of the woods..

 

[iceberg]

USDA Opens Application Portal for New ReConnect Rural Broadband Infrastructure Program

These funds will enable the federal government to partner with the private sector and rural communities to build modern broadband infrastructure in areas with insufficient internet service.

Why is this the job of the Fed Govt?????

dunno. but the people who live there that i know HATE their services 90% of the time. they just have no choice.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

I thought this issue was visited years ago by Al Gore. He instituted a tax on our service providers which of course, we end up paying for. It was for the same thing: providing technology to rural areas.

Capitol Comment 197 - Al Gore’s Hidden Phone Tax: Bad Economics, Bad Politics | FreedomWorks

This is a 100% Trump/Repub program...Congress first appropriated funds for the new Rural e-Connectivity Pilot Program, known as ReConnect, in 2018.

Yes, in December of 2018 in order to try and avoid a government shutdown. I don't know who sponsored the act, but something tells me it wasn't the Republicans. It was passed as part of negotiations.

https://www.nlc.org/article/federal-advocacy-update-week-of-december-18-2018

 

[Stormy Daniels]

The internet is a vital piece of national infrastructure in this day and age.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

It doesn't sound like that big of a deal to me. When you consider that the federal government continues to fund colleges that have been caught up in a cheating scandal, a couple of bucks for rural folks to access high speed internet doesn't seem so bad.

Money should not be spent on either.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

The internet is a vital piece of national infrastructure in this day and age.

You don't move out to the sticks to be part of the newest trends and technology. Just like you don't move downtown of a city for peace and quiet.

 

[Dick Foster]

USDA Opens Application Portal for New ReConnect Rural Broadband Infrastructure Program

These funds will enable the federal government to partner with the private sector and rural communities to build modern broadband infrastructure in areas with insufficient internet service.

Why is this the job of the Fed Govt?????

Because the Federal government has resources state and local jurisdictions do not.

Because such projects benefit rural states and jurisdictions, benefitting local economies, and in turn benefitting the Nation as a whole.

And because Americans pay income taxes for these services.

Let's see some real numbers and real accounting to support that. Otherwise it's just so much more bullshit, smoke and mirrors.