All in the name of Control....increase service to all...hmmmm tax tax tax....who gets the tax.....and they get to control it as well.....


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Networks Barely Mention FCC Plan to Spend Up to $350 Billion for Broadband Internet
Media outlets either ignore story or support government plan to increase service to all, even though 95 percent of Americans already have access.

By Julia A. Seymour
Business & Media Institute
3/17/2010 1:32:25 PM

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The problem with the liberal mindset is that it sees government solutions, even when there isn’t really a problem. Case in point: broadband internet.



Roughly 200 million Americans have broadband internet at home. Millions of others have access to it at work, school, the public library or on smart phones. Only about 5 percent of Americans lack broadband internet access according to The Wall Street Journal.



Yet in the eyes of bureaucrats at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this is an enormous problem to tackle with up to $350 billion taxpayer dollars – so far they have requested roughly $25 billion. On March 16, FCC released a national broadband plan “to bring broadband Internet connections to every home and businesses in the United States,â€