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Cable cos. to offer $9.95 broadband for poor homes
AP ^ | November 9, 2011 | PETER SVENSSON

Posted on 11/09/2011 8:57:24 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

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To: ConservativeStatement

You know, we used to not give people free stuff so they would work to get the better things in life. Giving people free stuff really turns them into slaves.


21 posted on 11/09/2011 9:39:37 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ConservativeStatement
The offer will start next summer and is part of an initiative the Federal Communications Commission cobbled together to get more U.S. homes connected to broadband.

Sounds like the Obama administration leaned on internet providers who will just pass the cost along to their paying customers. Hey, if you don't have computer access, go to the library.

22 posted on 11/09/2011 9:41:23 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: ConservativeStatement

Sure, like 85% of the kids on free lunches don’t have lying parents.


23 posted on 11/09/2011 9:42:04 AM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Thats discrimination!!!

The poor can go to hell!!!

Make your own way in this world or lie down in the street and die!

24 posted on 11/09/2011 9:50:12 AM PST by dalereed (uity wise!)
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To: Longbow1969

I want special treatment too,
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You will get it, you will have the privileged treatment of paying more to support the redistribution to ‘poor homes’.


25 posted on 11/09/2011 9:55:39 AM PST by Irenic
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To: ConservativeStatement

Let them earn their own cable money.


26 posted on 11/09/2011 10:08:40 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: ConservativeStatement

This is discrimination against people who don’t exactly meet their carefully parsed criteria.

But after all - They don’t want to just come out and say they are offering this discounted service only to non-whites living on the taxpayers backs.


27 posted on 11/09/2011 10:08:45 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (Ben Raines For President)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Why do people deserve this just for being “poor”? Other subscribers are going to pay for this. we’re already paying gas and electric fees for “poor” folks that run their heaters at 90 degrees and instead of turning them down, open windows. Not making that up, I’ve had several installers tell me this is what they’ve seen.


28 posted on 11/09/2011 10:09:07 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

more like bread and porn.


29 posted on 11/09/2011 10:09:45 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Follow the money: which big Democrat donor will benefit from all the incoming Federal dollars to bankroll this boondoggle? Probably several. Occupy Democrat Grifters!


30 posted on 11/09/2011 10:12:18 AM PST by GnL
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To: Tennessee Nana

When was the last time you were job hunting?


31 posted on 11/09/2011 10:12:27 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (*Philosophy lesson 117-22b: Anyone who demands to be respected is undeserving of it.*)
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To: steve86

My DSL is 40 bucks a month for 256k limited to 10 gig a month.

Alaska rates, best deal around.


32 posted on 11/09/2011 10:18:33 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: blueunicorn6

“You know, we used to not give people free stuff so they would work to get the better things in life. Giving people free stuff really turns them into slaves.”

Truth to power there brother. All by design.


33 posted on 11/09/2011 10:32:10 AM PST by Bruinator ("For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things an atheistic question")
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To: ConservativeStatement

That explains why my cable bill went up.


34 posted on 11/09/2011 10:42:03 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: ConservativeStatement

Will their computers arrive before or after they’re wired for broadband?


35 posted on 11/09/2011 10:50:52 AM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (save a pretzel for the gas jets)
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To: ConservativeStatement

All of us already pay for this. Look on your cable/internet phone bill under universal service fee. If you want to read more see my article (some call it a blog) from Aug of this year
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-new-york/anatomy-of-a-giveaway


36 posted on 11/09/2011 11:09:16 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democratic it beats thinking!)
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