Posted on 01/02/2010 4:01:49 PM PST by pabianice
Just heard the same thing for the third time in the past two weeks. An Obamatron was just suggesting on Fox that free internet access is the latest "found" new right of everyone in the country. Everyone must have their own computer and internet account because so many libraries are being closed (by mean conservatives, no doubt). She went on to say that "last year 1.2 billion Americans" went to the library" demonstrating the cruelty of shutting them and thus ending free internet access to the masses (not to mention her keen statistical grasp on the polulation). The understated solution, of course, is free computers and internet accounts for everyone (at how many trillions of your tax-payer dollars of course).
Flippin’ Libtards strike again..
The plain fact is, there is tons of older equipment out on the used market for pennies, and I do mean pennies on the dollar.
The problem is *gasp* the wouldbe internet user has to learn how to work on the hardware and install software that works on those older boxes and laptops, that would be marketable skill to earn, yet “Nanny” cannot have the peasantry learning how to make Linux or some old Microsoft OS work that would removed the need for “Nanny”.
30 dollars/free linux distro/wireless hotspot..
Those folks are psycho like Kathy Bates in Misery, once they come in contact, they never want you to leave.
And once "they pay" for it they have the right to dictate the contents...for the greater good, of course.
She needs advice from The Fisher of Men.
No ‘net’ needed.
FREE!!! at the taxpayers expence with strings attached, government internet browser so they can monitor you!
So when the power goes out their rights are being violated? Left-wing nimrods piss me off.
I noticed that too. I had no idea the population had skyrocketed all of a sudden.
If it is a constitutional right then it must be a constitutional right to read.I would suggest the liberals concentrate on all the literacy failures THEIR schools produce..THEN we can worry about library access
burning those piles of methane would cause Global Warming
Here's what it will look like, right before the computers are headed for the street for sale to fund crack habits....
Those silly Obama supporters: always counting dead people.
Somewhere in the US some new feelgood initiative is handing out “free” cell phones for “those who have no phone service”.
Heck, why not food stamps, cellphones and computers with “free’ internet access?
They could call it “the Obamao Bundle”.
So is this clown saying that whites are smarter than people like him? I suspect that there are boxes of rocks that are much smarter than he is!
yeesh. they will call it “cash for internet porn”.
Libraries are funded by state and local governments. Obama will further drain their coffers with unfunded medicaid mandates. No libraries = Obama’s fault.
Have you been your nearest public lib? The keyboards are freakin’ gross. A friend of mine who uses them brings a small vial of anti-bacterial with him whenver he goes to the library.
Free, Free, Free, Free, Free,....for all 600 trillion Americans citizens....paid for, of course, by the 30 working stiffs left in the country!
I often wondered how many Americans lived in the additional 7 states that Obama talked about. They must all be Californias and New Yorks. I wonder how I missed them all these years. Obama's so brilliant, I don't even have to think anymore. Thank you Allah for Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm!
> free internet access is the latest “found” new right of everyone
A “right” traditionally meant something the government could NOT take away from you. The libs have twisted the meaning of words to mean a right is something that must be provided for you. Of course, a tacit part of that twisting is that the government must take from one citizen by force (i.e., tax) in order to provide the newfound right to the other citizen.
Actually nothing new about it. Safelink declares that there IS NO OBAMAPHONE”. LOL As near as I can tell the free phone goes back to Reagan and was a very limited plan for landlines to poor people whith potentially dire health issues.
“There is no “Obama phone” or other newly created federal program to provide free cell phones.”
https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/benefits.aspx
That is the future and a way for the PC companies to expand their market.
And, oh by the way... it has to be cheap. Probably means improving the UI.
Ummmm....when did our population get to 1.X billion? Is this a prediction or...another brilliant Government 'statistic'?
per the NYT:
“...The users are not the only ones receiving government assistance. Telecommunications industry analysts said the program, while in its infancy, could benefit mobile phone carriers, who face a steep challenge of their own: most Americans already own a cellphone, so the poor represent a last untapped market....”
I would offer a link but the NYT and FR is like oil and bottled water.
You are fundamentally correct though, the cell phones are paid for by the Universal Service Tax and go to seriously disabled people.
Remind her that the Fascist education system is producing fewer and fewer people who can read and therefore do not need a library.
“Those silly Obama supporters: always counting dead people.”
Hey, if they have the right to vote then they have the right to a computer! /sarc
“Free” internet access.... of which the contents will be determined by Marxists, and will provide a new source of tax revenue for same.
We used to take old hardware and "refurbish" it, complete with fresh O/S install (Win95/98 or Linux), modem and browser, for folks who couldn't afford machines. But the demand for that went to zero several years ago (12/2006 was the last, if I recall correctly) and a couple years ago I wound up hauling a (small) car full of old computers and monitors to a "recycling event" in Seattle.
I think this is just a mis-statement of "there were 1.2 billion visits by Americans to the library." That would be about right for me, low for my wife.
HA! Us too.
Argh. Left out “4 visits/year on average.”
Once again Reagan did something good and liberals want to go hog wild and destroy it.
Our IT folks are really quick to block a site on the slightest complaint (all of Photobucket is blocked for "racy attire; sexual content") but their procedure for unblocking is extremely slow and cumbersome, requiring the assent of several levels of management.
Typical.
Re: photobucket being blocked it's disappointing to know that you can't view my dopey pictures at work when you could be doing something useful instead.... ;0)
Yeah, there is a point of obsolesence that can be reached, especially with older PC’s, laptops tend to stick around longer.
But heck, now a pIII 500mhz laptop can be had for 30 bucks or less, add in a 7 dollar wireless G card and even the poorest can afford to go online assuming there is a wireless spot nearby.
But somehow, I think the Obamao Drone was not thinking of such a humble system...
Free computers and internet could be a good thing. Imagine all of those Democrat voters getting their news from Hot Air, Instapundit, Drudge, Big Government, etc. Maybe some knowledgeable FReepers could volunteer their time to helping these newbies learn how to surf the net. Of course I am against a government giveaway, but I always look for the silver lining. Weening little Dems away from the MSM would be a good thing.
Sure. It’s not fair that poor people don’t have access to all the free speech that rich people do...it’s a Constitution thing. /S
That's the real problem, isn't it.
I personally would like wireless or wired very fast broadband available everywhere in the US. Failing that I'd like an equivalent to the post office system for internet access to communities.
I do not however believe it should ever be "free" just as the post office system and other utilities are not "free" either. The benefit of the technology is useful enough to build into our entire infrastructure but it must be cost efficient and affordable. Charities, etc., can help the poor afford and use this technology as needed, and I suppose that in real life even a conservative administration would have some sort of low level aid just like for lifeline telephones etc.
But a "right?" No, there's another agenda at work here besides technology for everyone.
I think we should all have the right to mandatory free lawyer care. Lawyers should not be able to earn a penny as legal care should be a fundamental human right.
There. Let’s see how THEY like it.
Of course, this is after the government takes over the Net and censors everything they don’t like, right?
Kathy Bates in Misery did one heck of a job! One of my favs!
There is no “Obama phone” or other newly created federal program to provide free cell phones. As you may know, this is a myth that is now circulating on the Web via email and blog sites. It has been thoroughly debunked by independent groups. (See for example: FactCheck.org at http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/the-obama-phone/, which notes: “Low-income households have been eligible for discounted telephone service for more than a decade. But the program is funded by telecom companies, not by taxes, and the president has nothing to do with it.”
Oh, yeah, right.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
The UK has been taxing TV for years.
In the United Kingdom, citizens must pay a licence if they own a television set. That’s right, a TV tax. For Americans, the whole idea of an annual tax to own a television borders on the absurd. However, in the UK, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a government agency that has the power to tax and enforce laws. In order to obtain funding, the BBC requires that anyone using its services must pay for them. So, if you own a TV set and live in the UK, you could conceivably turn on the BBC broadcasts, so therefore you better pay.
A colour television licence is £116 a year (around $192 US) and a black and white TV licence costs £38.50 a year (around $64 US). The cost goes up each year and this has lead some lawmakers to question the way the BBC is funded. However, until the law is changed, the TV licence remains — leading to harassment of those who proclaim not to own a TV set and jail time for those that own TV sets and don’t pay the tax.
http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/international/bbc.html
My first computer was a regular pentium with win 95. Cost me about 400 dollars back then used.
Now I can by a slightly past modern brand new laptop for the same cost.
I’m really astonished how much things have changed in only 10 years.
Libtards in the 21st Century:
Making up “rights” out of thin air, but Working Really F***ING hard to destroy your real rights!
No, these people all need to have top-of-the-line brand new equipment. Just think how this will stimulate the economy! Of China. /s
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