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Lion420
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:03amThe world will collapse under this nonsensical way of doing things, and they STILL won’t realize they are wrong.
Report Post »NHBuckeye
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 3:58pmRight, it will be Bush’s fault. For people who proclaim themselves smarter than the rest of us, they sure are slow to realize their ideas don’t work in reality.
Report Post »pcmaddness
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:58amIT is one thing to help someone in need through a rough time and I fully feel that we have all been in a time of need at at least one point in our lives, I also think that most of us would be glad to help those in need if we were able to do so… However this broadband thing is beyond wrong!!! How dare the government force the taxpayers to pay for internet for those who dont already have it when people are loosing jobs, houses, and fighting everyday just to survive…. It would be nice if these government people would all collectively take a 10% pay cut to pay for it, then lets see how fast it would pass congress….but that is just a foolish pipe dream because I am sure they will NEVER volunteer to to without. No offence intended but internet can be used at almost all libraries and even a few public places now..If people want it at home, people should get a job and pay for it themselves like I do!!!! This is INSANE!!!
Report Post »taryn
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 4:28pmI agree, A civil right? is he for real. what an idiot! my guess is he‘s never had a real job or enjoyed the gratitude of paying for something he’s actually worked for.
Report Post »LORDHELMET
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:58amAnd yet, all those clamoring against this are the first ones to fully, blindly, and stupidly embrace the loss of net neutrality. In fact, they have to be, by definition, because net neutrality isn’t a right, and it certainly will cease to exist if not regulated.
But, sadly, for the enlightened Glenn Beck followers, the word “regulation” means “socialism”. But hey, if you follow someone who has made millions by plastering conspiratorial ramblings over a chalk board, you don’t deserve better.
For you, the followers of Palin, Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, Drudge, Fox News, etc, are all hypocrites, and worse, sheep, manipulated by people who ultimately only seek filling their coffers, all the while poisoning the minds of a nation with gibberish, lies, and a simplistic, self-righteous, self-serving world view and ideology.
You want the government to stay out of your lives, but only if there’s nothing to gain for you. Let me break it down for you:
“GOVERNMENT, WHY WON’T YOU PROTECT THIS OR THAT RIGHT OF MINE. BUT DON‘T YOU DARE PROTECT ANYONE ELSE’S RIGHTS, OR DO ANYTHING FOR ANYBODY THAT’S WORSE OFF THAN ME.”
Oh, and in before all those asinine “Don’t feed the troll”, or “You must be planted by Huffpost” comments come in.
Anybody who disagrees strongly with the ideological circle jerk that is The Blaze surely must be planted, for who in their right mind would come here otherwise, right? Which would mean you pretty much admitted this is an ideological circle jerk, an echo chamber only meant to incite and make stupider, not inform or divine or debate. In other words, only strengthen you in the misconceptions and misinformation you already embraced.
Enjoy.
Weetsie
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:08amYeah, let’s let the government regulate and controll everything! GREAT IDEA! Look at social security, it’s doing great (just ignor the fact that it’s broke). Move along people, nothing to see here.
Report Post »Cuthalu
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:17amFunny because someone like you will be screaming against internet regulation the moment a conservative is in power over that internet regulation. Progressives like big government and regulations, but only when the progressives are in power.
The moment conservatives gain that same power, endless protests by progressives like children who didn’t get their way so are reduced to stomping their feet and screaming. So, move your selective outrage elsewhere.
Report Post »Weetsie
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:23amWell said, cuchalu
Report Post »LORDHELMET
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:33amCuthalu,
Report Post »I’d join Weetsie in their praise, except I’m not sure what (internet-related, or any other) regulation I would be opposed to if and when Conservatives are in power? Could you explain just what that might be? I‘m sure you won’t bother.
Weetsie
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:55amWhy dont you take a look at what happened in China in 09? When hundreds of protesters were killed by thier government the internet was shut down. I don’t want our government to have that kind of power.
Report Post »Weetsie
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 11:05amIf you dont remember China in 09, check it out
Report Post »http://opennet.net/blog/2009/07/china-shuts-down-internet-xinjiang-region-after-riots
tepartyblog.info
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 11:13amMy LORD please enlighten us as to why poor people need High speed internet at home.
Report Post »My LORD Why is it not enough to have it at school and in public library and down town hot spots.
Only A progressive would take on the title of lord. After all the end result of their agenda will return us to the dark ages and make the rest of us surfs.
seayalater73
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 11:43amAnd printed plainly in your own argument is the very thing we are not even debating the existence of: a right to internet. There is no debate becuase there is no right. In fact, I don’t think it should be regulated by anyone, ever. But I know that progressives in power will do far more harm than good in attempting it.
Report Post »SPIKYHEAD
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 12:23pmI love it when a person who speaks for a movement that is proven to engage in tactics directly and indiscreetly geared to silence dissidents talks about net neutrality.
I give you credit, you are making an intelligible yet weak argument in your various comments. You also seem driven and feel a need to thrust yourself into the lion’s den, so to speak.
You still haven’t made your case as to why free internet should be given to people who cannot pay for it. Also, in response to your later thought, every government has what is called an OVERHEAD. Otherwise, we would have ANARCHY and no sane person, left or right, wants that. Any reasonable person understands a successful and just government can’t be run for FREE. That is one of the founding principles of the movement over the last two years. But at the same time, there is a limit between paying a reasonable tax to fund a service that any governmental body of any federal constitutional republic should be obligated to provide and taking the people’s money and taking over once-privatized markets and fields to “take care” of people who “can’t take care of themselves”. It‘s a power grab and it’s a way to empty this country’s pockets, and whether the emptying is intentional or misguided really doesn’t matter.
Obviously for some, it’s all the same, right? The government needs money anyway, so why set limits on how much they can take, right? Why let people prosper through the creation and consumption of goods and services when the government can just provide everything? And who needs variety, it’s all coming from one source, so it would all be identical and without individual identity and expression, am I still right? And hey, if we, the government, are providing the service, we determine what the service is composed of, that way we know what’s on our network at all times. Oh, don’t worry about it, we got it under control. Oh wait, we deem that inappropriate for our network, TAKE IT DOWN. That don’t work for you? Oh, we have a kill switch for that. I‘m battin’ 1.000 right now, right?
It starts a slippery slope that takes choice, freedom of expression, diversity, the opportunity for commerce, and freedom of privacy away from the people. But go ahead, call us names, common sense dictates this is indefensible.
Oh, one more thing: you’ll have to forgive us for coming together on a common ground here in this place. Sometimes, like minds gather to share thoughts and talk about the state of the world. And I wonder which of the hundreds of thousands of “circle-jerks” YOU came from, places that were obviosuly too corrupt and twisted for people with common sense and good will. You are obviously bred from a cesspool where such a number may be immeasurable. Such nexuses of madness have been around a LOT longer than this one, and you sit there and fight for your beliefs as much as any one of us fights for ours, so just sit there like a pot calling the kettle black all you want. Your vulgarity, which I reluctantly repeated earlier, is another example of the rage your kind is feeling simply because those whom you have ridiculed, misled, and belittled for so long have finally awakened and decided that those who think and operate like you will eradicate our way of life no longer.
Report Post »tierrah
Posted on September 18, 2010 at 11:14amAnd because we have a difference of opinion, that makes you right, huh? Explain to me why you think providing LUXURY items to “underprivileged” folks is the responsibility of US Taxpayers. Now, if they were in need of food, clothing or shelter, you might have a valid argument.
Report Post »bhelmet
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:58amIs this found in the “Good and Plenty” clause of the Constitution?
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:57amWe had better concentrate on returning the strength, integrity and charater of America and shelve these kinds of ill conceived ideas until after that is accomplished.
Report Post »What kind of convoluted trail of “thinking” takes you to broadband internet being a “civil right”?
Somebody please explain what connection and logic makes these people come to such an irrational conclusion.
And while you’re at it, tell me how a few pie in the sky dreamers with abstract arguments can get the traction it takes to make lawmakers consider legislation on things of this nature.
Oh…Duh!….Enlarging government and expanding it’s control has got to be the answer.
DanB
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 1:21pmIf they proposed satellite as a way to get internet into these location, then people would have learned that this idea already exists. Well, that shoots down that idea. Perhaps government could propose cell phone coverage for the corresponding internet coverage. Wait, there already are communities with cell coverage and 3G internet that don’t have broadband. AND, there is even companies looking at launching alternatives to cell towers that might broaden coverage even more. So if you went with cell coverage you risk these venture ideas being exposed to the public. Nope, it had to broadband. It was the only choice left to get in a “public” (government) option. The only way they could prove that the free market wouldn’t jump up and say that the government is competing with them. Bonus is that cable internet providers would see this government aid as a boon. Why? Simple, the reason the cable internet providers have run cables to all these places is that the COST is greater than the return. So if government will provide all the money and the cable companies get the advantage over their competitors (satellite and cell). A win/win for the cable companies and government. The cable companies get their monopoly and the government gets their control of the internet.
Report Post »DanB
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 1:34pm“the reason the cable internet providers have run cables to all these places”
Gotta love it when you back and realize you missed a word. It can totally change the meaning.
The reason the cable internet provider have NOT run cable to all these places….
Report Post »tepartyblog.info
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 1:37pm@danb Brilliant post. I was wondering what company would end up benefiting and I think your right on this. I was thinking of a dried up company like AOL or Netzero. I have to say I love Comcast internet(not their TV /at&t uverse is the best), I haven’t found anything faster but, any company looking to make a deal with the progressive devil cant have my business.
Report Post »motomatt
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:55amOff Topic: I see that several authors have, or are planning to release books attempting to pigeon-hole/describe the Tea Party Movement…Rasmussen/Schoen and O’Reilly to name a couple. I think they have missed the mark from the limited information I have.
IMHO, the REAL effect of the TPM is dragging the center of the political center back towards the right, and doing so in a very abrupt manner. There will be/have been many casualties along the way, as we’ve already witnessed, McCain being the notable exception. In McCain’s case, I believe that JD was a flawed candidate in many ways, and that McCain’s service to his country decades ago, plus the fact that now many AZ voters realize that he was right on his economic strategy following his ill-advised two week hiatus from the campaign trail in the Fall of 2008.
Beck states that Progressive ideology has been in effect for over 100 years, and as much as that is true, it‘s this generation of Americans that has allowed liberalism to rear it’s ugly head to the highest degree we’ve ever witnessed. To illustrate how far the center of the political spectrum has drifted towards the left, who can forget those prophetic words of JFK at his inauguration…”Ask not what your country can do for you, instead, ask what you can do for your country”…and JFK was a democrat that would be considered a conservative by todays standards.
The Tea Party consists of fiscal conservatives from like minded Repubs, indies and Dems that have been disenfranchised by a liberal POTUS/Congress that passed sweeping legislation that has had little effect other than partisan paybacks…enormous Bills that were written but never read by those that voted on them.
Taxed Enough Already is more than a singular movement but a wholesale rejection of business as usual policies/strategies in Washington. Many politicians will feel the anger of this movement, and some already have. The exit through the door of re-election by Evan Bayh and David Obey should have sent shock-waves through the country prior to Scott Brown’s win in Mass….but apparently there are many still in denial. Moderate Republicans are not immune to the effect of the political tsunami that is occuring, just as moderate Dems are not free from the cataclysmic perturbations of the center of the political spectrum shifting towards the right.
In just two years, “Yes We Can” has been replaced by “No You Can’t” and Hope and Change has been replaced by Fear and Loathing here in America. The bloodletting has just begun, and it doesn’t end in 2010, it just begins.
Report Post »bhelmet
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:01amHere, here!
Report Post »Romans828
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:07amA really decent and I think the most successful attempt I’ve read to date on summarizing a movement that really is impossible to nail down precisely.
Report Post »tepartyblog.info
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:55amI have thought the same about “Ask what you can do for your country” It should have been “Ask what you can do for yourself!” and in an America that all is as it should be you can do anything that does not harm another person. It is too hard to nail the TEA party to one strict definition because as there should be there are many groups involved with local and then national agendas, but we can all agree that WE THE PEOPLE can take care of ourselves.
Report Post »I don‘t care much for bill O’Riley because I just see another old school republican that doesn’t get what is happening and has no idea what will happen. He still seem to think that the TEA party will be blind sheeple for the republicans.
This fight doesn’t end in November 2010 or 2012 it will be a long time before we are lulled back to sleep. I wish the American public would never fail in their civic duties again but it is human nature to want to be left alone to do your own thing and in turn let other do what ever they want but there are always a small group people that need to tell everyone what to do. We should however at least to match our founders and make something that will take at least another 100 years to bring us back to where we are now. I may be getting ahead of the hole thing but the progressive are like **** roaches and will continue to infest any structure we build.
tepartyblog.info
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:59amalso I don’t want the government to condone or institute the “penetration” of our youth with broadband or anyone else for that matter.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:54amIn Massachusetts they run TV ads on how to get FREE CELL PHONES and service. You go to a WEB SITE and just sign up. They say if you are on Welfare, you already qualify! Think about that. Go to your COMPUTER to sign up for the FREE CELL PHONE you can’t afford!
Report Post »gtrfan74
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 5:26pmNever thought about that before!! But wait, in a few years they may use their FREE LAPTOP with their FREE INTERNET to get their FREE PHONE!!!! go to your local library if you want to use a computer and the internet.
Report Post »Hanny
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:54ampoor almo…they are always trying to mkae him look bad.
Report Post »Sardu
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:53amFree broadband! W00t! Now can I have free electricity too? For broadband I need a computer and the computer doesn’t work without electricity. And some free Cheetos ™ and Dr. Pepper ™. I hear that goes well with Broadband. And free porn sites. I love the 21st century!
Report Post »t_lashley
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 8:16pmDont eat Cheetos and watch porn at the same time… Its a dead give away that youve been bad… LMAO!!!
Report Post »badswing
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:52amlet us not forget that this may be the only way to ‘re-educate’ ( a term from Sebelius). internet access will only help us. MSM puts their perspective, and theirs only on tv. we are reaching people now via internet , with our message, like never before. Maybe these commies have overlooked this fact. lets pick a different battle. this one, although ideologically wrong, may prove useful in the longrun!
Report Post »Weetsie
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:57amAgain, it’s about controlling the content. Not giving internet to people that can’t afford it. Remember when Obama said that the internet was “too confusing” and “there is too much information out there”.
Report Post »Romans828
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:02amBadswing – you forget how hard the Obama administration is trying to control internet content. You are assuming that our voices on here will remain unfettered. If the government is providing it to more and more people, that ain’t gonna be the case.
Report Post »Trying2Understand
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:47am“Dear France,
With the current struggles in your country, I suspect that you may be dusting off your guillotine soon. But, when you folks are finished with it, would you mind if we borrow it for a while? Sincerely, Citizens of the United States”
GulfPeg
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:45amIt‘s so easy to give away somebody else’s money. It grows on trees for these Socialists! But, they are killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
Report Post »GOTT-EM-MAUSER
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 11:07amBut, they are killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
So true, BUT as with any valid equation, the above also solves in the reverse order. The “Geese” are about to prove it’s validity.
Report Post »K Williams
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:44amAgree with Weetsie. Scary.
Report Post »GeeWhiz
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:42amJeez, get a job, save your money, buy what you want. This isn’t brain surgery.
Report Post »Romans828
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:00amExactly.
Report Post »a guy in texas
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 9:07amBut that’s soooo haaaard, when it is so much easier to wait for uncle Sugar to come along and perpetuate the gimme society.
Report Post »Gigantopithecus
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:40amWe don’t want the Fed to control the internet, and that’s what they are trying to do. Run all the private providers out of business and pretty soon Big Brother owns the web.
Report Post »triper57
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 12:02pmSounds like their plans for healthcare.
Report Post »AMERICA4EVER
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:40amMake sure it comes with a premium subscription to Glenn Beck.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:56amHAHAHA WOW an education at the same time. At least tax payers would get something out of it! :)
Report Post »DukeCLR
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:39amBroadband a civil right??? This is silly.
Report Post »Mr.Citrus
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:26amSilly is a great word for it…..
Report Post »Vil
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 3:26pmMaybe they’ll say that ice cream is a civil right, since those who aren’t too poor to have ice cream enjoy it. Well, maybe not. Government-controlled ice cream won’t allow them to control the information that people get. Well, they could put it in the labels. Of course, many of these people can’t read, in no small part, due to the government-controlled education system that has worked so well for all of this time…
Report Post »anigmanm
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:37amHere is a novel idea, let those that can afford broadband and cable tv buy it, for those that can not afford it, well if speed is that much of an issue they can try a public library, but the big question might be, if a person can not afford up to $50.00 a month for broadband how can they afford to purchase a computer that costs over $500.00? Will the next step be to purchase computers for low income families?
Report Post »pcmaddness
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:05amYou hit the nail on the head !!! And you know we will be paying for that to….. I now think we should all quit our jobs so we can get free stuff too !! I thought we worked hard to make a better life for our family not everyone elses!!!!
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:31amWell Well….When you make broadband a civil right then a computer for access will be stage two. But don’t worry we can just put that on your grandchilds credit card since your kids credit risk has risen so high we need to spread the wealth amoung other generations. Remember your government provided welfare tablet will only be able acccess ACORN, Union, and government sites.
Report Post »aperryboy
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:47amMy son told me about a conversation he had with a poor homeboy who told my son that the government was already providing the poor with cellphones. He said they had to do nothing… the phone was mailed to them and they simply go down to the local convenience store and get the free minutes. These free services for the poor on providing luxury items is breaking this country. It’s time to reevaluate these programs.
Report Post »rmsuperglide
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 12:53pmi know a family of 5 that earns about 60grand a year,they dont have cell phones or broadband because they have other responsabilitys like paying ther medical and other bills. they live within their means and dont expect any free services! my point is if they want these luxarys they need to be on welfare and just expect it! DONT MAKE THE POOR THIS COMFY!!!maby then they will earn what they want!
Report Post »read this
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 3:37pmI’m glad I am paying for someone to sit at home all day and make more babies. …babies that probably will drop out of high school. …and know I get to pay for their porn too. :( Next time you have a chance, visit your local library and look at what people are spending there time doing on the free computers. It will blow your mind. …what a waste. I don’t see many of them being used for educational purposes.
Report Post »Weetsie
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:36amThis is not about providing free broadband to people that can’t afford it. It’s about CONTROLLING THE INTERNET. If the govt. makes the internet a utility that can be distributed at their will, they will have to control the content also. FRIGHTENING!!!!
Report Post »dollfin
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:53amExactly, the monsters seemingly doing good for the oppressed, and BANG! They control the machine. I am so glad our nation of people, are waking up, and striking back, while there’s still a chance! Thank you all!
Report Post »moriarty70
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:57amActually the FCC has been the ones fighting against content control and restriced access. Private businesses have been trying to get rules in place so they can charge content owners for priority bandwtih. Basically that means, if Time-Warner paid the money and Newscorp didn’t, CNN’s website would load and run at a faster speed than Fox News et al.
Even sites like this would be effected since they might not be able to pay the “bandwith fee” and it would chug like you were viewing it on dialup.
Report Post »DanB
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 11:59am@moriarty70
So why isn’t my internet crawling along like dialup right now as I browse this site? Apparently you don’t believe in the free market so I should be seeing terrible internet connection right now, yes?
Hmm…. Thinking. Thinking. Thinking.
As much as you quibble about the details. Let me break it down for you.
1. If my ISP is too slow for my liking, then I can shop around for another ISP. THIS is why my internet connection is not a load of dung. As much as they market connection bandwidth for these select services, the end customer must be happy or they lose them to a competitor. So if my email is krud but I have great video streaming, how would they honestly expect my repeat business? However, get government in the mix regulating bandwidths for them–well then they can make sure everyone has the same pile of dung service so why would you move ISP if all internet providers followed identical rules…. So why aren’t they just peachy pleased and all for this (some may be)? Maybe look to China, or Cuba, or well you should get the point. These business tycoons aren’t stupid. When government is big and controlling, the control of information is key to controlling the people. And what industry is the current front line in the information warzone–the internet. That means having government controlling their bandwidth means that government would be all over their business, into their checkbooks, spending their money, controlling even their websites. Don’t believe this? Did you know that the US government can ALREADY dictate that an ISP or other internet service provide you with all your information and they can be bound BY LAW not to tell anyone that the government has the data or even made the request? That is in the US, not China!
2. The only part that has any real credit, freedom of information, is also plug full of holes. Bandwidth for all information.
First, if you value your property rights, why are you so hasty to take away the property rights of corporations and artists? I am not against YouTube. I am just pointing out that this bandwidth for all idea seems to be more about you getting what YOU want and nothing about respect for the other party. I might like to watch Fox News anytime and anywhere I want using the internet, but I respect their right to their product (news). And so with Time Warner, Disney and so forth. If they want to pay the internet providers to open up bandwidth to their services, well that is fine too. Who knows? Maybe the ISP will use the money to not only give them more bandwidth but also to improve their infrastructure so the total bandwidth is higher too. Not a sure thing, but in a free market don’t assume that just because someone is paying for more benefits that it is a guaranteed bad thing for you. You might be getting some hidden benefits. If nothing else, this forces others to compete. So if Netflix is paying for bandwidth with one ISP, don’t you suppose the Blockbuster/Movielink might try to broker a deal with another? So if you like Blockbuster, perhaps you can find the ISP that gives you the best online streaming for them all because Netflix made such a move. I am just trying to point out that we are often quick to assume that these deals are bad thing because we focus solely on what we perceive we want.
Why would Comcast want to restrict the bandwidth for online streaming? Perhaps because it competes with their cable services? What a concept! So if I don’t like it, I can go with a different internet provider? Unfathomable! No, we must have government do for us what we wouldn’t do for ourselves so we can force our internet provider and cable company to do for us what they would gladly do on their own if it meant that they would gain more customers (or retain existing customers). Hint: one customer leaving probably isn’t going to mean anything but if a competitor cropped up that offered what you wanted and was grabbing up whole segments of their market, don’t you think they would change a lot faster than any government regulation could force them?
Report Post »DanB
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 12:15pmHere’s a thought: Why aren’t they talking about using satellites to get internet into these remote areas? Sure, uploads might be a dial up speeds because you might use a land line for uploads. Or maybe you use cell towers to broaden coverage? Why not?
Hint: Some areas without broadband internet already get 3G internet through their wireless providers. They aren’t required to buy that service (maybe we’ll see an internet bill equivalent of “Obamacare”). Plus, there are already services that you can get internet through satellite. I read of one that you got your downloads at high speed over the satellite and used your land line for uploads. Not a perfect picture, but it does work. And most of what we talk about using the internet is the download speed. The wait to receive your email, browse YouTube videos, listen to internet radio, so on and so forth.
I used to do online gaming on dialup without complaint. Sure, today’s games are designed for something a little faster, but I wanted to point out that I was fine with dialup until I got an IT job that required occasional software jobs that would take hours (and if it failed, it was hours all over again). Only after I lost that job do we keep high speed internet and pay for it because we LIKE it.
Report Post »littlebin518
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 1:01pmThe folks for which this free broadband is designed for probably won’t have a computer, or couldn’t afford a skyrocketing electric bill. So the would be broadband to nowhere!
Report Post »RepublicAnn
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 3:05pmIt’s about having 2-way communication with every individual and the ability to send different information to those individuals. Obama wants: a civilian military, to kill the 2nd ammendment so people cannot have firearms, private 2 way communication via broadband between the gov’t & the people and free annual physicals. Why are people still scratching their head about this guy? Oh..and check out how much money Comcast, the largest broadband provider in the US, donated to Obama’s campaigns, it’s in the millions.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 7:07pmThose were my thoughts exactly! Give evryone access to broadband then brainwash them.
Give everyone only govermnent “Approved” web sites, block any and all websites and e-mails with opposing opinions so everyone only gets one side of any issue. It is being done right now in CHINA and very easily could be done here.
ANY TIME the government offers a hand, you better look at the other hand and see what is being hidden!
Report Post »donfield
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 7:08pmDing, Ding, Ding!!! Winner! The same thing with health care. He who pays the bill gets to dictate. Why do you thing Michelle O is telling us what to eat and not to eat. Don’t smoke cigs (unless your the sitting Pres), but pot is OK. Don’t drive your car, but I’ll fly all over the world and take a caravan of SUVs around the block. The elitists are being seen for what they are to those without blinders. I LOVE THE BLAZE!
Report Post »FedUpAlready
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 1:27pmNot only will they controll the Internet and it’s content they will have a camera on your computer watching your every move. Don‘t think it won’t happen, schools have already done it to their computer supplied students. This is getting down right scary!
Report Post »Weetsie
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:33amAdd your comments
veritas51322
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 7:34amI want to be the czar in charge of making sure the eclairs don’t have too much butter. I bet that job pays very well.
tarpon
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:33amChocolate lowers blood pressure and makes it easier to wait for buffering.
These people need to go back to the street corner.
Report Post »triper57
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 12:06pmThat’s what these people want. Go back to the corner with their government provided Ipads hooked to the free government wide band.
Report Post »t_lashley
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 8:09pmWAIT A MINUTE, WAIT A FREAKIN MINUTE!!! You mean I get a government motors IPad too??? Im all in. By the way… Government motors is 60% government owned, 30% UAW owned, and the true owners only got 10%. Whos up for buying new stock in the NEW Government Motors??? ANYONE??? Anyone??? anyone??? I guess its only the government…
Report Post »Independent Tess
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:32amTrue. Without chocolate my quality of life is much diminished. My Right to Chocolate is self evident!!
Report Post »FoundersKeeperUSA
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 8:44pmThere is one reason why they want to provide free access to broadband internet.Votes.They know that people with money that have the internet do the things were doing now.Talking and networking our ideas about the country.They want to connect the large voter base of low income minorities to there ideas online.They know how powerfull a tool the internet has become for people who are active against Obama’s radical agenda.Its marxism and the Fairness Docturne all wraped up in one package.Imagine if this happens? They free home page will say “The great one Barak Obama tells you why Socialism is better then Evil Capitalism.“ And ”Why those bad Republicans dont want you to have the internet or food stamps/free houseing.”
Report Post »Cuthalu
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:28amFree broadband was inserted into the Stimulus bill of a year or so ago, burrowed deep within it was basically payed for already. People really need to read that bill online and you will find all kinds of weird things in it like this. It was nothing more than a slush fund for progressive ideas to be payed for then later used to implement at a later date when people are unaware or distracted by other things.
Why do you think only 1/3 of that Stimulis bill has been spent so far? There is a reason….
Report Post »banglindags
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:54amFree broadband! Dream on, suckers. In Maine, the stimulus fund paid 25 million dollars to the man who ran BO’s presidential campaign, ostensibly to provide internet to rural areas. This guy has zero experience in internet technology and his plan doesn’t even serve one customer. I‘m sure he’ll be able to afford free broadband for a long time.
TomBurpee
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:19am@BANGLINDAGS
And they wonder why the “young people” are leaving in droves..
“If we had free broadband, we’d stay. But we don‘t so we’re gonna go somewhere else!”
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:26amThere you are Dangles. Has mommy found you and cleaned out your mouth after you and stupid windmills did your bag to chin trick for hours? I actually agree with you and maybe you prove our point. The stimulus was a huge give away plan to politically connected friends of the regime. They handed my kids money to their friends weather they had any experience or not. Not to mention that no results are important. I bet they bought some of the $3000 dollars signs and posted them on the highway telling us how lucky we were to be robbed?
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:17pmbanglingdags – But that is change! You see the change in Washington BO talked about before the election wasn’t clearing it of crooks but moving it more toward a Chicago style politics. Who is John Galt?
Report Post »trisch
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:27amAccess should be given to people who PAY for it. It is not a civil right.
Report Post »Stop all the giveaway programs.
Midwest Belle
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:29amYES! I pay for it, so should everyone else. If they REALLY want to provide broadband access, maybe they should think about making sure local libraries have broadband. That wouldn’t bother me. (My small town library doesn’t even have a computer, let alone broadband!
Report Post »CRoyce
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:21amI think chocolate eclairs are a civil right! EVERYONE in America should be entitled to AT LEAST one chocolate eclair a day!
Report Post »Anonimouse
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:48amRight. And I’m tired of cleaning my house. Don’t I have a right to a government provided housekeeper? While we’re at it, the guy next door has a bigger tv than I do. I makes me feel inadequate. I think we should all have 60″ government tv’s, don’t you?
Aw heck – Escalades for all!!!!!
Report Post »(and the mortgage payment really stings………..)
warriorcop
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:10amI want free crack. It seems they are already handing it out in Washington
Alvin691
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:22amOf course, the other side is who pays for the eclairs? What about those (like me) that can and want 10 eclairs a day? How good will those eclairs be? Who gets the contract to make them? How bill will they be? Will there be a governmental department created to make this happen? Will there be an “eclair czar”?
1marinesthoughts
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:23amSo if we give them Broadband internet and they have nothing to connect to it how does that help them again? Will we be giving out Free laptops to all of the Poor in America next?
ANTIPATHIZER308WIN
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:29amCan I have blueberry pie instead?
Report Post »Anonimouse
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:30am“Will there be an “eclair czar”?”
Well of course Alvin!!! Gotta get those unemployment numbers down, don’t we? :)
tobywil2
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:47amPerhaps, those who do not want the elairs could be fined by the government for not buying the eclairs. MORE GOVERNMENT REVENUE WITH OUT RAISING TAXES!!!!!!!!!http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »DanB
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:48am“Will we be giving out Free laptops to all of the Poor in America next?”
Um, I think they are already working on that…. It might be in an education bill. That would probably be the most logical place for it. But considering that they put student loans in the health bill? And medical records in the stimulus? Well, maybe laptops for the poor will be in the next tax break for big oil?
Report Post »Anonimouse
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 11:01am“Well, maybe laptops for the poor will be in the next tax break for big oil?”
No, how about a defense bill? Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Report Post »Who would dare vote against our brave soldiers?
VRW Conspirator
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 11:39amAnonimouse
Report Post »If we all had government housekeeping – our homes would look the inner city projects
If we all had government tv’s – they would be not working half the time and in transit to and from the shop the other half.
As for Escalades…they would be….wait…GM already is government motors…we own 50% of their stock dang it.. .where is me ESCALADE!!! with 20′s and the booming stereo please…black out windows as well…thank you..
alkmetro
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 11:58amI am going to sell chocolate eclair off-sets..so everyone can still eat them , but I will make trillions of dollars!!!
Report Post »JackBoot101
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 12:05pmI grew up in a small town in Illinois (pop 1000) and we had no library. Were my civil rights violated because I had very limited access to information other than what was being taught in school or published in the newspaper? What is next, free cell phones for the masses? Oh that’s right, the masses already have cell phones.
Report Post »Mike Ivey 2010
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 1:17pmI can’t believe that the are letting a puppet testify in congress
Liberaless in Seattle (I wish)
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 1:43pmI wish my life was a Michael Moore documentary.
Report Post »Vil
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 3:14pmMike Ivy, you can‘t believe that they’re letting a puppet testify in congress? How can they tell him apart from the rest of them?
phydroxide
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 4:01pmI was endowed by my creator with certain unalienable rights. Among these are facebook, twitter, and speedy youtubes video on-demand.
JaceMan
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 4:22pm@PHYDROXIDE
Report Post »+1 Awesome!
obgone
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 4:33pmhey wait a minute…………….Everyone should have someone doing their yardwork! It should be a right of every American to have a gardner, a cook, it is only………fair
cryba
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:17pmWarriorcop – that was perfect, lol:)
Report Post »Gann0n8r
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 7:24pmWhy stop at one? I know, I could eat three, easily.
Report Post »Freedomwatcherguy
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 8:57pmBECKOPHILE: FYI, BANDLINGDAGS and DANGLINGBAGS are not the same person. Relax!
Report Post »laoeal
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 8:59pmWhat is next, free cell phones for the masses?
Didn’t you hear, we’re getting that too! Thats right, free government cell phones to anyone who qualifies, because after all, its our right!
Report Post »I am so tired of paying for these things with taxes.
MidwestCitizen
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:10pmWill I be fined if I don’t want an eclair? Can I opt out of this plan?
Report Post »cgress5
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:14pmI’m confused, doesn’t everyone have free broadband, and use of a free computer – AT THE LIBRARY?
boston dotty
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 4:02amwhat really bothers me is i see no difference in obama and the repubs , no where do i see or hear anyone on the repubs side coming out with the truth , what is in the health care bill? ,every thing i’ve learned about the bill comes from glenn beck and fox news , The only way out of this mess is to throw out all the bums . i believe we have been had by the repubs also , i think most of them are as liberal marxist as obama
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