>In 2021, the Biden Administration passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which included a provision to give $42.5 billion to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program to provide under-served and rural areas with internet access. To date, it has connected nobody.
No wonder we are not voting for it, the government continually promises to connect people and does nothing.
The 42 billion could have bought every single rural American a Starlink terminal and had a bunch of money left over.
Sure, but that makes the assumption that people vote rationally, or even in their self interest, when evidence is overwhelmingly to the contrary. And this isn't commentary on an individual party, either, or on intelligence: basically nobody is incentivized to honestly portray how a candidate might actually govern.
Sure, but that makes the assumption that people vote rationally, or even in their self interest
If they don't, then democracy is done. Right now, thanks to the EC, a rural vote is worth more than anyone else's. If you're right, then the rest of us had better find a way to disenfranchise them, and soon.
Dig1t|1 year ago
>In 2021, the Biden Administration passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which included a provision to give $42.5 billion to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program to provide under-served and rural areas with internet access. To date, it has connected nobody.
No wonder we are not voting for it, the government continually promises to connect people and does nothing.
The 42 billion could have bought every single rural American a Starlink terminal and had a bunch of money left over.
PittleyDunkin|1 year ago
CamperBob2|1 year ago
If they don't, then democracy is done. Right now, thanks to the EC, a rural vote is worth more than anyone else's. If you're right, then the rest of us had better find a way to disenfranchise them, and soon.
So... are you sure you're right?