Coming Soon To Tampa Public Housing: Free Internet Access

Tampa Tribune ^ | Dec 23, 2010 | Rachel Pleasant

[tatsinfla]

cell phone should be free also under the new obama giveaway program....

[Lurker]

It almost has to be, at least in the case of children.

Oh for the love of God...

"Conservatives" like you will be the death of this Nation, mark my words.

[LomanBill]

[behavioral health courses at Brewster Technical College.]

Just what the world needs - another social worker with a welfare entitlement attitude.

[Buckeye McFrog]

how much ya wanna bet that any of these people EVER see a bill for $18.95 for their internet service?

The EU Parliament recently declared universal broadband access to be a “basic human right”. Looks like that’s the direction we’re headed folks.

[troy McClure]

I live in the sticks. In a Valley off the beaten path. But I have three business's that I run.

No Cable No Hi speed Internet No Cell Service No Broadcast TV.

I pay $86 per month for my land line phone,$90 per month for Hughes Net so I can have Internet access, $120 per month for cell phones that are forwarded to the land line most of the time and $80 for Directv ( so I can watch O’Boozer destroy my country).

Where is my Free Stuff?

[rollo tomasi]

A wise man and indentured servant who did not need a personnel Internet account to learn.

[LomanBill]

[As for creating an unbridgeable class gulf, it already exists.]

Yep. There's the Vanguard Elite and then there's, well...

...the rest of us who are not -- for whom thinking as an Individual is..... forbidden...

 

[wendy1946]

Believe it or not, it’s actually possible to be conservative without being stupid. Denying children food or the wherewithal to study or succeed in school is plain ****ing stupid. It just should not be that hard to devise ways to ensure that children have what they actually need without doing violence to normal morality. All anybody needs for enough internet access to study is a 56K-baud modem; if you could ensure that kids had that much at home and normal internet at schools, that should probably suffice. As far as providing broadband television to anybody for free, at that point youre right and it shouldn’t be happening.

[2nd amendment mama]

All anybody needs for enough internet access to study is a 56K-baud modem; if you could ensure that kids had that much at home and normal internet at schools, that should probably suffice.

And are we supposed to supply them with the computer and phone service at home to access the internet you want to provide to them?

[rollo tomasi]

The State and local districts should be the entity (Not Federal grants), approved by the tax payers of course, that funds to “ensure that kids had that much at home and normal Internet at schools”. The Internet is a tool, period. A local public library “ensures” that unintended consequences do not cheat the tax payers out of the little lads’ research abilities anyway. My kids did not require the Internet

[rollo tomasi]

"Believe it or not, it’s actually possible to be conservative without being stupid."

Forgot this part. No, stupid would be ignoring Franklin's advice and making people comfortable in their poverty which you champion. How many decades has the "war on poverty" been going on? Look at the drop-out rates, drug use, illegitimacy rates, crime, wasted $$$ on education, fraud, and debt piled up because "conservatives" like yourself scream "What about the children." Feed the children, blah, debt inducing blah, blah, blah... How about telling parents to be responsible and feed their own kids rather than becoming dependent on the taxpayer to subsidize their lives.

Compassion is tough love, not using children as a shield for perpetuating a dependent class. Charity should be local, not a system of ascension to political power.

[wendy1946]

In the mid 80s I was setting PCs up for friends, mainly for their kids in highschool and it dawned on all of us at the time that there was a big problem sitting there for a teacher trying to grade some paper when half the kids had the things and the other half didn't, i.e. that what amounted to 72 hours of work for one kids would take half an hour for the next.

Likewise in our present situation Abraham Lincoln could have grown up to be a shoe salesman if everybody else in his school had internet access and he didn't and anybody was grading on any sort of a curve.

[riri]

Shutting off the cable, of course, is out of the question. Also, I've got $50 that says she has a cell phone in addition to the house phone. Another $25 says at least one of the daughters has a cell phone as well.

I got $50 that says she buys Starbucks a few times a week too.

[newzjunkey]

paying $90 a month for cable, phone and Internet is a struggle.

Where the hell can you pay for those three services and only pay $90? I want to move there.

[rollo tomasi]

"...72 hours of work for one kids would take half an hour for the next."

A winner of life's lottery perhaps? Does the school have labs? The Lincoln straw man is a hoot too. Also, the Internet would not help with papers I did in school. Published material and primary sources (Many you need to pay for on the Internet) are found in brick and mortar establishments/libraries. Plus it's easier to create an outline/form material with paper in front of you.

Franklin's and Lincoln's sense of ambition as well as personnel responsibility would of overcome some drone who would not know what to do in the event of a power failure or dead batteries anyway, straw man considered burnt.

[rollo tomasi]

"with paper" should be with paper books

I guess you want to subsidize printers along with paper as well.

[SeeSac]

Also, I've got $50 that says she has a cell phone in addition to the house phone. Another $25 says at least one of the daughters has a cell phone as well.

If you have a cell phone, you are probably helping to pay for her FREE cell phone.