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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.
Hoover tried big spending to fix a recession. That recession became a depression. When will politicians learn that increased govt spending and employment do not stimulate production and advance the economy, but in fact have the opposite effect? They are sacrificing the future for the present (the next 4 years). This is a clear sign of political pragmatism: help those who complain the loudest now, without regard for anyone else. Those other people who will be harmed by increased govt. spending - employers who could have had more employees (now working for the govt), producing goods that could have existed (supplanted with unnecessary bridges to nowhere), bought with the additional money that could have been in the pockets of consumers (now taxed to pay for these jobs) - will be the ones complaining tomorrow.
If he just want's to throw it all away, I would suggest buying each American a sports car, at least then we could have fun while we're pissing away everything we have.
Public school never helped anybody. Am I the only one who noticed that? I guess Obama wouldn't know, since he never attended public school.
I really wish people would READ THE 1996 COMMUNCATIONS ACT. Most of the money was earmarked to upgrade phone lines from analog to digital, and increase speeds from ~19k to ~56k. The end.
Now if you think that sounds like a stupid way to spend money, blame the politicians in Congress, not the telcos.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
Did you pay your weekly dues to the twitter conspiracy fan club yet?
If you get your dues in, they'll send you the Real Action Sock Puppet with a knife in his back figurine. These are the high quality ones with Kung Fu Grip and Chop action arms that all twitter conspiracy trolls get upon joining.
(So, why don't you post under your real account anymore? Trolling twitter finally got to your karma rating? The mods trying to keep you down? Still feel like your crusade remains uncared for?)
The last line in your post seems so fitting here as well.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
It's OK. I think everyone had some sort of glittering, shiny fantasy about what they thought Obama was going to do. The obamacotin is just starting to wear off and the country is coming off its high. Prepare for an ugly crash. Maybe even a freak out.