Never underestimate how many things the federal government will fiddle with that are extra constitutional when the American people turn a blind eye to the actions of their leaders. As I write this the FCC, Federal Communications Commission, is preparing to join up with socialist business leaders to dictate what industry will do when it comes to broadband communication.
While I’m still looking for the language in the Constitution that gives the federal government to meddle with the Internet, the bureaucrats are moving full steam ahead to achieve, “goal of 100M bps service to 100 million homes.” The excuse is that it will help the United States better compete in the global marketplace.
What it will actually do is give the government a bunch of companies dependent on them and cost the tax payers billions. Still, I’m sitting here looking for the Constitutional verbiage that gives this power to the government in Washington D.C.
In this day and age of enourmous deficits is this really what we should be doing?
Congress should spend an additional $9 billion over three years to speed broadband deployment, but the USF money should be enough to bring broadband to 99 percent of the U.S. population by 2020, said the FCC’s Levin. Combined with $7.2 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for broadband deployment, the redirected USF program will pay for broadband deployment across the U.S., he said.
We’re not talking peanuts here. And not to sound like a broken record, but I still cannot find the clause of the Constitution that gives the feds this authority. No, what we have is just plain and simple another corporate welfare program to provide something that the marketplace does not dictate is wanted. Because believe me you if people were clamouring for wireless broadband access in rural areas that don’t have it it would be there. What this is really about is companies that don’t want to front the full cost of what the service would entail to get set up looking for a handout from Uncle Sam to do something that they cannot afford to do and that their customers cannot afford.
We have to start cutting back this government somewhere people. How about this boondoggle? No, seriously! If not here then where? Why should another taxpayer’s pocket be picked so that another can benefit? It is simply not right on any level.
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