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Mount Airy, MD | Useless Congress If the Rural Broadband Program is not doing its job, then why is it still being funded? Congress could easily resolve the problem of money being wasted by cutting the funding.
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said by pnh102:If the Rural Broadband Program is not doing its job, then why is it still being funded? Congress could easily resolve the problem of money being wasted by cutting the funding. It is still being funded because the Congresscritters from suburban and city areas want their piece of the pie and want to make sure USDA money is being funneled in to their districts no matter what the rule is. This is std pork politics at its worst.
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| said by fAcEtIOUs:It is still being funded because the Congresscritters from suburban and city areas want their piece of the pie and want to make sure USDA money is being funneled in to their districts no matter what the rule is. This is std pork politics at its worst. No kidding, we should be funding HMMV parts and ammunition manufacturing and paying contractors to rebuild Iraq. That's where are money is best spent for this country to prosper.
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Des Plaines, IL | reply to pnh102
said by pnh102:If the Rural Broadband Program is not doing its job, then why is it still being funded? Congress could easily resolve the problem of money being wasted by cutting the funding. Looks good on paper, but...
1. It still doesn't recover the already misspent money.
2. It still leaves rural citizens out in the cold.
Normally I'd say that it's time to give it to the DOJ, so they can start taking names, freezing bank accounts and handing down indictments. But I hear that they're too busy separating the "loyal Bushies" from the chaff to bother with their sworn duties Maybe the states can do something using local fraud statutes to seize the bogus loan money. MOF, they can just call it "drug money" and avoid due process altogether. Kind of ironic, though--using an illegal law to do Good. LOL |
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by Time4aNAP:1. It still doesn't recover the already misspent money. 2. It still leaves rural citizens out in the cold. So basically, you are proposing that we do more of the same with this program and hope for a different outcome?
Whatever happened to people who want something investing their own money in a private venture to make it happen? Isn't that how things used to get done in this country?
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Des Plaines, IL | said by pnh102:So basically, you are proposing that we do more of the same with this program and hope for a different outcome? Did I write anything like that? Please read what I wrote.
Whatever happened to people who want something investing their own money in a private venture to make it happen? Isn't that how things used to get done in this country? What happened was Big Business and corporate welfare, but that's OT. Do you have an on-topic point here? |
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Des Plaines, IL | reply to fAcEtIOUs
said by fAcEtIOUs:...This is std pork politics at its worst. Ah...according to the story, it was the USDA, not Congress that was misspending the money. In fact it was Congress that caught them. |
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Pittsburgh, PA | reply to golfgeek6
Misappropriation of government funds.
Isn't that like 10 years in federal PMITA? Well... technically... |
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