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Obama Wants Broadband, Computers Part of Stimulus
damn_registrars writes "President-elect Barack Obama announced in his radio address that his administration's economic stimulus package will include investing in computers and broadband for education. 'To help our children compete in a 21st century economy, we need to send them to 21st century schools.'
He also said it is 'unacceptable' that the US ranks 15th in broadband adoption." No doubt with free spyware and internet filtering. You know... for the kids.
Not that I believe investing in education is bad, but passing it off as an economic stimulus is disingenuous.
So US schools are going to have better net connections how exactly? This is not going to be the result of paying companies in the US to make it so? And individual school networks are going to be set up by whom exactly? Who's going to administer them?
Not all conservatives are stupid,
but it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
- Hume
I'm sorry. I also attended private school (through the 6th grade), and I had a similar experience. The reason I single out public school is because of it's compulsory and publicity funded nature.
Private schools do teach you more effectively, but they generally do so by trying to crush your will. Assholes.
Oh, okay. That makes sense. Too bad those law changes were very much bipartisan. Also, it's likely inconvienent to your argument that nearly every rule change that played a part in the ecenomic downturn happened in the 2000s, which republicans have been in power for all but 3 of now.
I love this line of reasoning. "Oh the recession was brewing for years before my guy took over!". Years before your guy took over, clinton was in office with a republican house and congress. So... still looks like the free-market republicans to me.
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