And With Free Government Internet For All... (Daniel Greenfield)

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And With Free Government Internet For All...

Posted by Daniel Greenfield

Sunday, August 25, 2019


Things have never been as bad as they are now. Not only is unemployment at a 50-year low, but last year saw the largest annual wage gain in a decade. 46% of Americans say jobs are plentiful. The number claiming that jobs are hard to come by declined from 15% to 12%.

But it’s at 100% in a field facing 96% unemployment in under a year. The 2020 Democrats.

“Who is this economy really working for?" Senator Elizabeth Warren demanded to know.

 How bad is this economy really? So bad that Warren rolled out a plan to have the government guarantee Netflix 4K streaming internet for all at the modest cost of merely $85 billion.

 That’s enough to pay for over 5 billion Netflix accounts which would cover most of the human race.

 In her latest 5-year plan, Warren called for a “public option” for broadband. If her public option for the internet works the way that her public option for healthcare did, private internet will soon be banned. And the government internet will keep shutting off because it’s powered by green energy windmills.

 And a hamster in a spinning wheel.

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Greenfield must live in a city, because there are huge swaths of rural areas with either no broadband or one very expensive monopoly on broadband. But hey, they don't matter, right? Let the rural areas die off.

That being said... government efforts to fix the problem have so far failed. I live in an area where they've been trying to get a competitor to the cable company for years now. They paid one company to set up this service called WiMax. They were supposed to be ready to go by early 2016. Then, they quit. They took their government money, and right before they were supposed to get us WiMax, they decided they weren't going to do it.

So now we've got another company they've decided to hand millions to to give service to the areas WiMax refused to. Armstrong is their name. They were originally supposed to have their lines run and service running last year. Now it's late this year. Supposedly. BUT they have to build across the other side of the county first before they can reach us. Sure.

Meanwhile, the cable company keeps jacking up their rates to do the bidding of their Big Media masters.