What Did 'Broadband Czar' Harris Do With the $40 Billion Appropriated for Internet?

[royamcr]

Bidding at this point is about the construction and fiber runs which are more about subcontractors not the end user.

[pxmcc]

provide high speed inet to as many users as 40B$ can provide, maybe?

are you implying that she instead hid the 40B$ in a coconut husk before it fell out of a coconut tree, possibly?

btw, Trump's the one you have to worry about when it comes to stealing office supplies. or cribbing our nuclear triad national security top secrets
and selling them to Putin. dollars to doughnuts-yup i'd bet my house on it-that he's already done that..

oh and about that 10 million "super legal campaign contribution" from Egypt? naw, Bill Barr isn't corrupt at all, and there totally was no cover up by his sorry disgrace of a DOJ..

[txdot-guy]

The sad part of this is that once the fiber is installed and running the Republicans in federal, state and local offices will all take credit for the success of the program.

Just like they always do.

[The_Waco_Kid]

Originally Posted by royamcr

Bidding at this point is about the construction and fiber runs which are more about subcontractors not the end user.

read the wsj article Tiny posted. the entire process beginning with the construction bidding is bogged down in classic Government red tape and over-regulation


just a few examples ..



Brent Christensen of the Minnesota Telecom Alliance recently reported that none of his trade group’s 70 or so members plan to bid for federal grants because of the rate rules and other burdens. “To put those obligations on small rural providers is a hell of a roadblock,” he said. “Most of our members are small and can’t afford to offer a low-cost option.”

Commerce hoped to spread the cash to small rural cooperatives, but the main beneficiaries will be large providers that can better manage the regulatory burden. Bigger businesses always win from bigger government.


and this little gem ..


Cox Communications last week sued Rhode Island over the state’s plan to “build taxpayer-subsidized and duplicative high-speed broadband internet in affluent areas of Rhode Island like the Breakers Mansion in Newport and affluent areas of Westerly,” where Taylor Swift owns a $17 million vacation home. Cox says there are better ways to spend taxpayer dollars. According to the Federal Communications Commission, 99.97% of U.S. households already have access to high-speed internet.


only the Government can waste money faster than they print it.


BAHHAAAA

Originally Posted by txdot-guy

The sad part of this is that once the fiber is installed and running the Republicans in federal, state and local offices will all take credit for the success of the program.

Just like they always do.

republicans never take credit for democratic clusterfucks, Sir!

but we will blame them for it!


bahahaa

[txdot-guy]

Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

republicans never take credit for democratic clusterfucks, Sir!

but we will blame them for it!

The GOP’s greatest skill: Taking credit for things Democrats did

For instance, as Democrats celebrated the Inflation Reduction Act’s two-year anniversary last week, Republicans, who unanimously voted against the law in 2022, condemned it and pledged to claw it back. (They’ve already voted a couple dozen times to repeal various portions of it.). But when it comes to the projects the law subsidized, these same Republicans are big cheerleaders — both for the projects and for their own (imagined) role in enabling them.

Most major IRA-funded projects are in Republican-held districts, so the list of triumphs to seize responsibility for is extensive. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (La.) has puffed up wind energy investments in his state. Rep. Nancy Mace (S.C.) has likewise trumpeted an electric vehicle plant and an electric regional transit hub. Rep. Andy Biggs (Ariz.) touted a high-tech battery manufacturing facility. And Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), who has called global warming “healthy,” has since cheered a solar manufacturing project in her district.

This is hardly the only initiative Republican lawmakers have bogarted credit for despite their efforts to stop it. Last fall, House Speaker Mike Johnson (La.) cheered the expansion of Florida’s Sarasota airport, which he toured with Rep. Vern Buchanan (Fla.). That project received at least $16 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. While some Republicans supported this law, both men voted against it.

Similar examples abound for Republicans who voted against the Chips and Science Act.

Vance was not yet in the Senate when any of these blockbuster bills were enacted. When he ran for office, though, he bashed the infrastructure law as “a total disaster for our country.” He has since appeared to take credit for its funding for the Great Lakes as one of his top “accomplishments” in the Senate. (Maybe he was talking about another Great Lakes bill he is co-sponsoring? That legislation might one day count as a Vance accomplishment, but it has yet to receive a floor vote. A Vance spokesperson did not respond to questions about which bill he was taking credit for.)

Read the full article here https://archive.ph/3dBRH