Can someone please pass this request to Obama? I hear he makes dreams come true.

The stimulus package committed dollars to put broadband in “rural areas” – “rural areas to be defined…..”
Was a long time ago that I looked at it – but it also seemed that money was allocated to rural area broadband for hospital and doctor reporting of medical records – it’s all connected and has been connected since well before O was elected

American Investment and Recovery Act

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h1enr.txt.pdf

TITLE I—AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION,
AND RELATED AGENCIES
…DISTANCE LEARNING, TELEMEDICINE, AND BROADBAND PROGRAM
For an additional amount for the cost of broadband loans and
loan guarantees, as authorized by the Rural Electrification Act
of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 901 et seq.) and for grants (including for technical
assistance), $2,500,000,000:

TITLE VI—BROADBAND TECHNOLOGY
OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM
SEC. 6000. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The table of contents of this title is as follows:
TITLE VI—BROADBAND TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM
Sec. 6000. Table of contents.
Sec. 6001. Broadband Technology Opportunities Program.
SEC. 6001. BROADBAND TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM.
(a) The Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications
and Information (Assistant Secretary), in consultation with the
Federal Communications Commission (Commission), shall establish
a national broadband service development and expansion program
in conjunction with the technology opportunities program, which
shall be referred to as the Broadband Technology Opportunities
Program. The Assistant Secretary shall ensure that the program
complements and enhances and does not conflict with other Federal
broadband initiatives and programs.
(b) The purposes of the program are to—
(1) provide access to broadband service to consumers
residing in unserved areas of the United States;
(2) provide improved access to broadband service to consumers
residing in underserved areas of the United States;
(3) provide broadband education, awareness, training,
access, equipment, and support to—
(A) schools, libraries, medical and healthcare providers,
community colleges and other institutions of higher education,
and other community support organizations and

(2) The national broadband plan required by this section
shall seek to ensure that all people of the United States have
access to broadband capability and shall establish benchmarks
for meeting that goal. The plan shall also include—

Most rural states already have federally -funded broadband access programs for schools and medical facilities. In Kansas ours is called the KanEd program. It is currently in its second contractual incarnation and seems to work quite well. I think what Obama the Statist has in mind is to have the FedGov underwrite broadband access networks for the citizenry of low-population rural areas of the US. I guess some areas still don’t have broadband access from their local telephone company or cable television company. Those two capitalistic concerns figured out over a decade ago that selling internet access to their customers would be a decent revenue stream. It works out real well for the providers and customers here in rural southwest Kansas. Of course, Obama doesn’t believe that anybody should have to pay for ANYTHING. That goes against his Marxist dreams.

“Of these non-adopters, 12 percent say they cannot get broadband
where they live. This translates into a 4 percent share
of Americans—on the basis of their reports on infrastructure
availability in their neighborhood—who say they are unable to
obtain broadband because it is not available.” http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-296442A1.pdf

If you choose to live in the 4 percent of the US that can’t get broadband, that is your choice. This translates into a crisis for the rest of us how? Seems like the vast majority of those without high speed internet access have chosen not to have it, for whatever reason. Should they be forced to get it, just like they will be forced to have health insurance whether they want it or not?

I have to imagine you can get high speed internet via satellite dish ? If not now, certainly in the near future ?

I live in rural Orange Co NC and I can’t get cable and I can’t afford a laptop and wireless right now. ( busy payinf for necessities) Will the MESSiyah make Time Warner come the extra 1/4 mile to my house so I don’t have to use DSL?
BTW, of that 4% they’re not without internet access, just w/o “high speed”.
And for Mr. Smith , there may be hope ! When The One seizes and regulates the use and purpose designation of ALL waters in and around the US, maybe He will designate one of the Iowa streams as a surfing body.I mean surely the laws of nature will surely bend themselves to his will and water will flow back upstream to where Mr. Smith wants to surf ( If he is a union rep and Obama supporter). According to , was is NYT or Time that put him in front of the cross?
“Who is this man , even the wind and waves obey Him?”

I never thought it would come to this, but I think conservatives need to start pushing for an amendment that states in the clearest possible terms that no one has a right to take the work of any other person. Period. Or, to put it another way, that the government does not have the power to take the labor of one person and give it to another, either directly or indirectly.

That means health care, it means broadband, it means medicare, it means welfare, and, yes, it means ponies.

I realize this has zero chance of passing, but I think it’s about time conservatives started fighting for an ideal. Or, to quote Animal House, “what’s needed here is a really stupid and meaningless gesture on somebody’s part”

the way they have done with the banks. Invest now control later based on that money infusion.