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$6 Billion Proposal For High-Speed Internet Grants

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 25, 2009 @08:32AM from the gentlemen-gentlemen-there's-plenty-to-go-around dept.

witherstaff writes "House Democrats have proposed $6 billion in Internet investmentsas part of a sweeping economic stimulus bill that the full House is expected to vote on next week. The $6 billion is considered a down payment on efforts Obama will make in this area over the next several years. Of course let's not forget the $200 billion broadband scandal that the large telecommunication companies have been paid but never delivered on."

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Re:Subject by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-25 11:22 · Score: -1, Flamebait

"But, really...I thought the Dems. were supposed to go back to being Clinton-ian, and try to get back to a balance budget."
Why did you think this? The only thing Cliontonian about The Messiah's campaign promises was his promise to decrease investment by raising the capital gains tax to the level it was at during the Clinton years. Anything else resembling Clinton's rule was superimposed onto Obama by a willfully ignorant electorate.