Might I suggest it’s time for some fact checks? Let’s start with a fact check on the White House Internet program “Fact Sheet”.
White House Fact Sheet
Let’s discuss the June 26, 2023 White House Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Over $40 Billion to Connect Everyone in America to Affordable, Reliable, High-Speed Internet
High-speed internet is no longer a luxury – it is necessary for Americans to do their jobs, to participate equally in school, access health care, and to stay connected with family and friends. Yet, more than 8.5 million households and small businesses are in areas where there is no high-speed internet infrastructure, and millions more struggle with limited or unreliable internet options. Just like Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Rural Electrification Act brought electricity to nearly every home and farm in America, President Biden and Vice President Harris are delivering on their historic commitment to connect everyone in America to reliable, affordable high-speed internet by the end of the decade.
Fact Check on the Fact Sheet
Please note FCC commissioner hits Biden admin for $42 billion in unspent high speed internet funds
The senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is blaming the Biden administration for a lack of high-speed internet projects that were approved under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, comparing the situation to the dearth of electric vehicle charging stations that were also supposed to be built with the funds.
“There’s no question that the 2021 law put some process in place, but the Biden administration decided to layer on top of that a Byzantine additional set of hoops that states have to go through before the administration will approve them to actually get these funds and start completing the builds,” Carr told FOX Business in an interview.
Carr acknowledged that some high-speed internet projects have connected people during the Biden administration, but he said none of them have been funded by the $42.5 billion allocation from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program from the Infrastructure and Jobs Act, which was the administration’s signature broadband initiative.
Where Would We Be?
I am sure glad Biden put Kamala Harris in charge of the border and also delivery of high speed internment because otherwise where would we be?
As long as I am asking questions, might I suggest it’s time for more fact checks on “Biden-Harris” Fact Sheet announcements?
But hey, let’s step back and give credit is due. In this case, the “Biden-Harris” plan delivered nothing but amazingly cost nothing!
No money has been spent because $42.5 billion has been bogged down in the “Biden-Harris” bureaucracy.
How can you possibly beat that? This is arguably the biggest success story of the entire “Biden-Harris” term.
No doubt I have piqued someone’s curiosity here, perhaps many people.
Do I have any volunteers to fact check all of the “Biden-Harris” fact sheets?
It’s a daunting task, but democracy undoubtedly depends on it.
“All Hell Breaks Loose”
On the economic front, please consider “All Hell Breaks Loose” In the Next Few Months as Recession Bites
Uhhh… Thank You… Thank you very much.
The past 4 years have been the worst I’ve ever seen from an administration. I thought Trump was pretty mediocre and hoped we’d get sort of a Clintonish administration with no drama. That didn’t happen. Everything this administration touches turns into crap. Even worse is that it is such an anti-white government in a white majority country. It astounds me that any white person would vote for these people. It is like expecting blacks to vote for George Wallace of Alabama in the 1970’s. I’d vote for anyone other than these anti-white male racist Democrats in this election. I’ve had enough.
We need to give Harris time to figure out a way to steal the money.
The appropriations may it have been spent, but I would bet that tens of thousands of people spent a lot of time writing the rules and proposals and edicts to try to make sure that money only goes into the right hands. The cost of the inefficient process and wasted effort is likely in the billions all by itself, just not accounted for since proposals get written in someone else’s tax dollars.
This is by design, same as the EV charger money and Chips act money going unspent. I’m a govt contractor and my company won a contract last year that the government can’t be bothered to transfer funds so we can start work. The company owner chalks it up to laziness of govt workers and thinks the funds will have to come by September before end of fiscal year but I’m dubious. Been a stressful year for the owner and no work for me but I’ve been tbilling and chilling so no worries.
95% already have access to high speed internet and it’s not about the other 5%. The cable industry lobbyists found a gold mind in Washington. It’s the most expensive solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
I guess they never heard of Starlink.
Funny how 40 million illegal aliens over the years hasn’t helped with burning California’s high speed bullet train to nowhere, with or without Kamala.
KamalaCackle giggles all the time because she cannot believe the simple acts of nothingness can keep her employed and Rich.
If the labor force participation rises to mid sixties and above, filling gov coffer, and the Dow popup, Kamala Harris can pay reparation.
reparation to stimulate consumption and buy a house.
Oh, you mean like the: $7.5 Billion in Biden Funds Yield Only 8 EV Charging Stations.
Same Thing, But Different my grandpa used to say…
These are the same funds that SpaceX was excluded from because of a random set of BS excuses.
If you are rural, SpaceX internet is the only option that makes sense. This funding is for building miles of copper and fiber to get out to very spread out remote customers. The money is better off not being spent.
Biden and Trump caved in to pharma. Harris did nothing for 4 years, besides laughing for 4 years. Her future actions are unknown. If the republican takes the senate and the house she and will be happy to do nothing all day in the next 4 years, caving in to libertarians, cutting debt and the gov size. If Trump/Vance elected they will bullshoot all day, doing nothing for 4 years, besides draining the swamp…
Another weak-minded president for four years with a locked Congress/Senate; at best, the lights will start going out. At worst, nuclear conflict.
There is NOTHING in her background to suggest she will cut debt and gov’t size. She is committed to reparations. ‘Draining the swamp’ will shrink government employees and likely increase efficiency.
If she’s elected, I expect the US will be tested militarily by several countries (China, Iran, fill in anyone else with beefs with US) during her term because of her perceived weaknesses. Similar to how Britain was tested by Argentina when Thatcher became their first female PM.
The worst part about her being elected is that she’ll want a 2nd term and of course her whole term will be devoted to getting elected again in 4 more years. The best thing about electing Trump is that he’s done in 4 years and with a Kamala failure to beat him it would mean fresh candidates with hopefully fresh ideas for both parties in 2028.
Makes sense. Half their votes come from nobody, too.
Recent polls show that over 93% of deceased Americans are voting for Kamala Harris in 2024.
The Biden vaccine approach seems like the biggest failure. Telling people they would not get covid if they were vaccinated without any scientific proof was a crime. Illegal mandates, politicizing a medical issue, bowed down to big pharma, spreading misinformation, using corporations to suppress alternate opinions, revoking medical licenses from doctors that didn’t fit the narrative, incentivizing medical facilities to classify almost everything as covid-related due to government funding, etc., etc., etc….
Then they quietly rolled back stats, quietly pulled J&J due to blood clotting, quietly added MANY side-effects on the mRNA variants, covered up vaccine related deaths and side-effects, Fauci admitting he made up recommendations that were not science based. BTW, Fauci spread misinformation in the 80’s when he went on talk shows telling people AIDS was airborne, obviously without any scientific backing.
Bibi might hit Hezbollah, before signing a deal with Hamas.
Hezbollah has somewhere between 100,000 and 300,000 missiles aimed at Israel. For everyone’s sake, I pray for peace.
It is all going to end up being by satellite anyway so they should just give the contract to Starlink and be done with it. Unfortunately for some obscure reason, the present administration doesn’t like Musk so the money sits there with no project to spend it on.
“…some obscure reason…”
As in taking over the Democrat-controlled Twitter, and advocating freedom of speech
Could be that Musk stole Obama’s mistress and got her pregnant.
Obama’s mistress–now that’s funny
Correct. The free market already has a solution. But of course the government wants to spend money to do a competing one.
Hopefully none of that money ever gets spent.
Technical point. Harris wasn’t given charge of the border. That was Majorcas. Harris was charged with a fairly impossible to achieve in four years’ time with finding solutions to the underlying issues that make people want to cross the border in the first place.
Maybe you solve that in a lifetime. Not four years. A stupid thing for Biden to have assigned to an heir apparent-unless his intent all along was to weaken her by giving her a losing proposition for a job
Technical point. Harris has never shown the least interest in even addressing the issue let alone solving them. She had plenty of opportunity but preferred to stay in Washington. As president she will be even more dependent on others telling her what to do than Biden. His excuse is that his mental capacities were no longer up to the task. Her excuse is that she is just plain lazy and ignorant.
There is no evidence she did any root cause analysis as she claims. She has never shown how far she got with her homework. Another unfalsifiable claim meaning it can’t be proven or disproven.
The Czar claim is the wrong question to pursue. The real Scooby Doo mystery is where is this root cost analysis she said she was working on. If it’s not finished fine, show how far you got.
She can’t do that because one never even got started.
Actually someone did some work–likely a consultant IMHO. See the link above for the big banal report. It is the usual lousy excuse for government.
I was listening to NPR years ago. The guest did a root cause analysis and laid it all out. The root cause is the drug and human bondage smuggling cartels. Sex trafficking is part of it but the bigger cause is slavery; dirt cheap labor.
There is only one way to get produce pickers, chicken plant workers, hotel room cleaners, mineral miners. Nobody is getting these workers even paying bottom barrel US wages that’s for damn sure.
The only way to do it is human bondage ie slavery. She knows this fact. Everyone with an IQ of 100 knows this fact. You either are fine with it and look the other way or, you are not. Kamala is obviously fine with it along with her donors. People who vote for her are also fine with it.
My Slovakian great-grand parents came to the USA 120 years ago to work in the coal mines of central-Illinois. Thye were escaping the hopelessness and lack of upward mobility in eastern Europe. They were the equivalent of today’s immigrants working in the low-paying and dirty jobs no one else wanted to do. Their children worked as child labor sorting coal from age 10. They bought one acre of land and had to live in the chicken coop and shed for a couple years until they’d saved enough to build a small house. Within 40 years of their arrival, one of their children was the local Postmaster and another was the manager of a local smelter. The third generation were all very productive, successful, tax-paying, law-abiding citizens who worked hard. Many served in the military.
For this reason, I agree with Trump: Let’s encourage LEGAL immigration! Let’s entice the smartest and brightest from all over the world to come here and join our nation! But we must oppose ILLEGAL immigration, welfare for illegal immigrants and the crazy open border policies that hurt everyone.
She’s had about three years. What exactly did she accomplish? Besides handing out taxpayer money,,, Okay, I’ll make it easy for you:
In 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris released a ‘sweeping strategy’ concerning the root causes of migration amid the recent surge in illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings.
The strategy states that the pandemic and “extreme weather conditions” have exacerbated the root causes of migration, which includes corruption, violence, trafficking and poverty.
You can see the actual strategy here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Root-Causes-Strategy.pdf
It commits the US to spend unspecified vast amounts of money on fixing other countries. Not much of a ‘strategy.’ No real measurable goals/objectives, and no actual strategies–just broad concepts that may not be actionable. Remember, the US is already bankrupt.
One example: Anticorruption Task Force to include U.S. prosecutors and law enforcement experts. Keeping in mind that Dept of State OPDAT has been in operation since 1991,
How many cases have been prosecuted/how many investigations of corruption since 2021 directly due to the Anticorruption Task Force?
I’m sorry. Kamala just isn’t that smart.
Any think tank could produce this crap in a weekend. Cost about $100K at government prices.
A monkey given eternal life tapping blindly on a keyboard would eventually write the complete works of William Shakespeare before Kamala Hahaharris solved any major issue presented to her. She’s not there to solve problems. Not sure why she is there at all. One might say that regarding Kamala, there’s no there, there.
I’m not a biologist or a genealogist, but I have some ideas why she’s there.
Are these the same people doing the EV charging station build out?
Broad band equity. LOL
What is high speed?
HD Netflix and porn without latency for everybody simultaneously in the hood?
I checked and Byzantine communications were all by road. That’s why it’s taking so long.
Without actually looking it up, I bet the extra set of hoops are that all the work has to be done by DEI Union workers at prevailing rates even in States that have right to work.
Lol that’s more of a Trump thing. Bringing back the glory days of rounding people up.
Why didn’t he do that when he was President last time?
They probably told him it was illegal. Not this time.
We’re certainly liking Mercury Broadband service in rural kansas. Our previous option was satellite tv whom bills keep rising and internet services for around $100 month or more that you could only watch a limited amount of videos and NO tv shows or anything and it was slow. Mercury is 65 a month but you have to have apps so we spend around 100 but it covers the internet also and it’s pretty fast but Ive never used a hard line. Now we are looking at a different phone service since we were relying on uber expensive att.
As soon as there is competition, ATT will lower their prices. Here in Florida as soon as both ATT and Comcast put fiber into my neighborhood the prices started to drop.
If you are spending 100 a month just for internet you are probably getting close to the point where Musk’s Satellite internet will make sense.
If you are spending 100 a month just for internet you are probably getting close to the point where Musk’s Satellite internet will make sense.
Rural NYS $100 gig internet. Next lowest tier is something like $90 for half speed.
Own your own router and modem to save fees and tweak speeds.
But a gig will never net you gig speeds due to how many slower hops are between you and the other end.
Soon time to upgrade to 10 gig wired house.
Always go wired for everything important.
But will need to upgrade everything like the tv’s which have older slower hardware.
Unlike a pc where I can simply swap out cards.
Musk is NOT fast enough yet. And most likely I can not own my own equipment.
What exactly are you doing that requires a gig speed connection at home?
Despite Gig fiber connection here, I opted for the 300 Mbit plan (cheapest). Even with 2 teens who have computers/phones/gaming systems etc we never ever saturate the bandwidth (I know because I’m in the tech industry and I measure what we use at peak vs what we are supposed to get to see if we need more than 300) and half the connections (PCs) are wired and half use WiFi.
Companies *love* to advertise Gig speed and tell you that you need it. Next to no one actually does. It’s like car manufacturers talking about top end speed of the car being 150 or 200 MPH. When exactly do you ever do that besides on the track.
I’m old now and started with pc’s when way back in 93. I played with Commodores and gamed with Ataris.
Way back when ISP’s would provide news groups. I found a lot of fan subbed Anime that way.
As speeds increased locally my greed for speed did as well.
For a short time, before Magic Jack, you could;d get internet phones and Google had phone numbers.
After news groups were dropped, no more freebies from the ISP, I went to E-mule, then torrents.
Big fan of foreign stuff.
Now most of it is on some streaming service somewhere.
Mainly games, but not online and streaming.
Speed is nice to dld a large multigig game from PSN.
Eventually I consider giving up streaming reinvesting in a vpn and torrenting again.
Prior to the Ukraine thing I visited a Russian site. They had many MA files, amongst other things. Stuff not seen here.
I did notice just how militaristic the Russian youth were back then.
Lots of training both physical and firearms well all weapons. Lot’s of cultural styles, Cossack stuff for example.
My torrenting stopped with the war. My streaming started before the war.
Company subbed materials suck compared to the lovingly fansubbed materials.( Some of the fan subs even translated the signage or what the specific dialect meant, like certain hick rural types in Japan.)
For a long time I purchased a region free dvd player from HK and would import region limited dvd’s from Asia. Back when HK was action or general film capitol of the world, then it shifted to Korea..
I have a nice collection of older Chinese and Korean films.Well subbed mostly.
I only read the first book of Three Body problem. I watched the Netflix version then the Prime Chinese make.
Chinese was far better, but one needs to be truly dedicated to binge watch like forty episodes.
Longest Night in Changahn, I think that was the title, was the same way.
Too complex for hit and run too much to remember to leave then return.
Most US and EU stuff run six to ten episode seasons.
Netflix is nice because they are incorporating more African and Caribbean or South American, south of the border,materials. Prime is the same with India and China.
Honestly only Asians and Nordic types get true sadness. US takes something heart rending and gives it a happy ending.
Now that I shared all that crap I just like the speed.
Every decade a step up the speed ladder.
I also used to run third party firmware/os on my routers. Nice for tweaking.
Now I’m just lazy.
I’ve done most of those same things and we are roughly same age (mid 50s I presume). I’m not big into Anime but both teens are and prefer it in Japanese.
That said, you don’t need gig speed for any of that. Torrenting speed is always limited by the upload speed of the peers. It’s very rare to get really high speeds unless you are downloading a popular torrent that has thousands of seeders (Game of Thrones episode type thing). The stuff you are talking about won’t have that.
Anything else you stream Netflix and the like is already VERY highly compressed so it’s using minimal bandwidth and definitely not coming in true 4K due to the compression. Same with all the quasi illegal sites that hold movies, anime etc. They are all highly compressed and quite bandwidth limited on the upload side which means you are limited on the download side.
Wrong you believe people actually know how much speed they need and use online? You can stream and download at 12mps this gigabit stuff is for idiots. Fiber optic is also a scam with huge costs and little gain.
Reminds me a little of this scam too…
https://www.autoweek.com/news/a60702457/federal-funds-yield-only-8-ev-charging-stations/
I borrowed this from a comment on ZH about six months ago. ( Tried to use this argument against Spectrum with the NY Senator office because they never replaced infrastructure and actually price scam. Nothing happened).
Wasn’t the Universal Service Fee from the 1990’s supposed to have done that already?
National Broadband Plan FCC unveiled its plan on March 16, 2010
Between 2009 and 2017, the federal government spent $47.3 billion to get infrastructure to rural communities according to a 2020 report from the US Government Accountability Office.
Add ANOTHER $65 billion for broadband expansion within the Infrastructure Deal
( I again apologize for my posting inadequacy, second post anywhere in years).
Starlink?
hardware is $499 per address (far cheaper in bulk)
8.5M * $499 = $4.24 billion
could also negotiate a favored monthly discount (currently $120/mon)