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'FCC Commissioner Slams Kamala Harris’s $42 Billion Broadband
Initiative: ‘Not One Person, Home, or Business Connected in 3 Years!’'

<https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/fcc-commissioner-slams-kamala-harriss-42-billion-broadband/>

'Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr slams Kamala Harris’s
$42 billion broadband initiative, calling it a colossal failure in a
scathing testimony before the House Oversight and Accountability
Committee on Thursday.

Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission,
didn’t hold back, accusing the regime of prioritizing political agendas
over practical solutions for millions of Americans still lacking access
to high-speed internet.

“It’s been 1,039 days since Vice President Harris agreed to spearhead
this massive program, yet not a single person has been connected to the
internet. Not one home. Not one business. Not even a shovel has hit the
ground,” Carr declared in his opening statement.

“It gets worse—no infrastructure builds will even start until sometime
next year at the earliest, and in many cases, not until 2026. This makes
Vice President Harris’s $42 billion initiative the slowest-moving
federal broadband deployment program in recent history.”

The program, known as BEED (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment),
was designed to extend internet access to millions of Americans in rural
and underserved communities.

But according to Carr, the initiative has been bogged down by
bureaucratic mismanagement and a focus on advancing a “wish list of
progressive policy goals” rather than delivering on its core mission.

“The $42 billion program led by Vice President Harris is being used to
push a climate change agenda, DEI requirements, price controls,
preferences for government-run networks, and rules that will lead to
wasteful overbuilding. All of this will leave rural communities behind,”
he said.

The FCC commissioner pointed to the Biden administration’s broader
failure to support rural America, citing the revocation of Starlink’s
commitment to provide internet to over 640,000 homes and businesses.

“Frankly, it would not be the only time the Biden-Harris administration
has left rural America behind. In 2020, the SEC secured a commitment
from Starlink to provide Internet to 640,000 homes and businesses for
about $1,300 per location in federal support.”

“But the government revoked that award last year after President Biden
gave agencies the green light to go after Musk. The administration is
now spending dollars on the penny to connect locations through its own
initiatives. Senator Cruz released a report identifying entire projects
where the administration is now spending over $100,000 per location for
Internet.”

The hearing served as a stark indictment of Vice President Harris’s
leadership on the issue, with Carr calling for a complete overhaul of
the broadband initiative.

“Absent major reforms, Vice President Harris’s $42 billion program is
wired to fail. It’s time to correct course, get rid of all the
extraneous political goals, and focus on quickly connecting Americans,”
Carr concluded.

On 2024-09-19, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 'FCC Commissioner Slams Kamala Harris’s $42 Billion Broadband
> Initiative: ‘Not One Person, Home, or Business Connected in 3 Years!’'
>
><https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/fcc-commissioner-slams-kamala-harriss-42-billion-broadband/>
>
> 'Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr slams Kamala Harris’s
> $42 billion broadband initiative, calling it a colossal failure in a
> scathing testimony before the House Oversight and Accountability
> Committee on Thursday.
>
> Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission,
> didn’t hold back, accusing the regime of prioritizing political agendas
> over practical solutions for millions of Americans still lacking access
> to high-speed internet.
>
> “It’s been 1,039 days since Vice President Harris agreed to spearhead
> this massive program, yet not a single person has been connected to the
> internet. Not one home. Not one business. Not even a shovel has hit the
> ground,” Carr declared in his opening statement.
>
> “It gets worse—no infrastructure builds will even start until sometime
> next year at the earliest, and in many cases, not until 2026. This makes
> Vice President Harris’s $42 billion initiative the slowest-moving
> federal broadband deployment program in recent history.”
>
> The program, known as BEED (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment),
> was designed to extend internet access to millions of Americans in rural
> and underserved communities.
>
>
> But according to Carr, the initiative has been bogged down by
> bureaucratic mismanagement and a focus on advancing a “wish list of
> progressive policy goals” rather than delivering on its core mission.
>
> “The $42 billion program led by Vice President Harris is being used to
> push a climate change agenda, DEI requirements, price controls,
> preferences for government-run networks, and rules that will lead to
> wasteful overbuilding. All of this will leave rural communities behind,”
> he said.
>
>
>
> The FCC commissioner pointed to the Biden administration’s broader
> failure to support rural America, citing the revocation of Starlink’s
> commitment to provide internet to over 640,000 homes and businesses.
>
> “Frankly, it would not be the only time the Biden-Harris administration
> has left rural America behind. In 2020, the SEC secured a commitment
> from Starlink to provide Internet to 640,000 homes and businesses for
> about $1,300 per location in federal support.”
>
> “But the government revoked that award last year after President Biden
> gave agencies the green light to go after Musk. The administration is
> now spending dollars on the penny to connect locations through its own
> initiatives. Senator Cruz released a report identifying entire projects
> where the administration is now spending over $100,000 per location for
> Internet.”
>
> The hearing served as a stark indictment of Vice President Harris’s
> leadership on the issue, with Carr calling for a complete overhaul of
> the broadband initiative.
>
> “Absent major reforms, Vice President Harris’s $42 billion program is
> wired to fail. It’s time to correct course, get rid of all the
> extraneous political goals, and focus on quickly connecting Americans,”
> Carr concluded.

And then there is the chargers across America boondoggle.

So $7.5 billion dollars to build 8 EV charging stations?
That's ~$1 billion dollars per charging station.

<https://www.autoweek.com/news/a60702457/federal-funds-yield-only-8-ev-charging-stations/>

Democrats love tossing money at problems. The problem is the money is wasted and the problem still
remains.

--
pothead
Kamala Harris Word Salad Special Of The Day
Served Complete With Venn Diagram Dressing

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:47:43 -0000 (UTC), pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:

>Democrats love tossing money at problems.

Then why does every Republican President set new records for spending and
deficit growth?

--
So, in no particular order:
01) Trump fueled division and sparked record numbers of hate crimes such as Charlottesville and supporters beating a homeless man.
02) Murder went way up under Trump. He presided over the largest ever single year increase in homicides in 2020.

pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
> …
> And then there is the chargers across America boondoggle.
>
> So $7.5 billion dollars to build 8 EV charging stations?
> That's ~$1 billion dollars per charging station.
>
> <https://www.autoweek.com/news/a60702457/federal-funds-yield-only-8-ev-charging-stations/>

Try researching the details of the program before whining, so as to
understand what, where, and why.

Here, the funds were sent to the individual States to decide what they
needed, where, etc…and for the States to issue the contracts for the
installs.

As such, it will take longer and have higher costs because of the old
“States Rights!” mantra…even if a State isn’t deliberately dragging their
feet, or finding the “right” donor for the contract award.

-hh

>pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
>> � �
>> And then there is the chargers across America boondoggle.
>>
>> So $7.5 billion dollars to build 8 EV charging stations?
>> That's ~$1 billion dollars per charging station.
>>
>> <https://www.autoweek.com/news/a60702457/federal-funds-yield-only-8-ev-c
>> harging-stations/>
>
>Try researching the details of the program before whining, so as to
>understand what, where, and why.
>
>Here, the funds were sent to the individual States to decide what they
>needed, where, etc� �and for the States to issue the contracts for the
>installs.
>
>As such, it will take longer and have higher costs because of the old
>� oStates Rights!� mantra� �even if a State isn� Tt deliberately
>dragging their feet, or finding the � oright� donor for the contract
>award.
>
>-hh

So Trump's to blame again. It's going to be great when he faces justice,
is locked up and finally shuts the fuck up for good.

On 9/20/24 8:24 PM, Grill wrote:
>> pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
>>> ƒ İ
>>> And then there is the chargers across America boondoggle.
>>>
>>> So $7.5 billion dollars to build 8 EV charging stations?
>>> That's ~$1 billion dollars per charging station.
>>>
>>> <https://www.autoweek.com/news/a60702457/federal-funds-yield-only-8-ev-c
>>> harging-stations/>
>>
>> Try researching the details of the program before whining, so as to
>> understand what, where, and why.
>>
>> Here, the funds were sent to the individual States to decide what they
>> needed, where, etcƒ İand for the States to issue the contracts for the
>> installs.
>>
>> As such, it will take longer and have higher costs because of the old
>> "States Rights!" mantra even if a State isn't deliberately dragging
>> their feet, or finding the "right" donor for the contract award.
>>
>> -hh
>
> So Trump's to blame again.

Not really: incompetent and/or corrupt politicians are found in both
parties, even if they're more prevalent in the GOP thanks to Trump, but
a big part here is the Fed funding structure going through the State
bureaucracies always adds time. Being a new program also adds to this,
because the receiving State has to figure out which office (new office?
etc) it goes to ... before actually doing the work of figuring out what
they want and going through contracting.

I don't know how long this "its new" part takes - it will vary State by
State anyway, and depend on political attention (motivation to act).

For just the contracting part I've written government contracts and our
general rule of thumb was that for a "Full & Open", if you hustled, from
the time you got the money to the procurement group until they would
issue a contract was ~1 year.

After that year had passed, the contractor actually starts their work.
If its something fairly simple and doesn't need new permits, plan for
another 6 months before there's a First Article test, etc.

Now there are ways to get around some of this leadtime. One is to start
working on the paperwork before the money showed up. Easy to say, but
how do you get paid before there's funding? This typically requires
specific management approval to do (eg "Short of Award") and local
policies vary on how much leadtime you're allowed to do here - one
office I've worked in only allowed 3 months. Another cheat is to find
an existing contract rather than to have to go Full & Open, such as
writing a modification onto an existing contract. Some groups now write
Task Order contracts which leave the actual work part blank when they're
competitively bid. The trick here is that these have legal boundaries
on what type of work they can cover, and your project's scope needs to
fit without those boundaries in order to use the Task Order contract.

Getting back to this program for EV chargers, its a new program, a five
year one, and goes through the States, so its planners know its going to
take quite a bit of time upfront to get started.

To use an analogy, its like expecting a woman to give birth to a baby at
the 3-4 month mark instead of at the normal 9 months: for any EV
chargers up & running today is very fast and probably had some other
shortcuts, like 'shovel ready' projects just awaiting funding. Here,
this also included it being a small, motivated State, so there was less
political infighting/etc to decide what State office was going to get
the new work added to their existing projects.

> It's going to be great when he faces justice,
> is locked up and finally shuts the fuck up for good.

There's room in Gitmo, but another suitable option would be to go
refurbish Dr Mudd's accommodations at Fort Jefferson. /s

-hh

>On 9/20/24 8:24 PM, Grill wrote:
>> So Trump's to blame again.
>
>
Not really: incompetent and/or corrupt politicians are found in both
parties, even if they're more prevalent in the GOP thanks to Trump, but
a big part here is the Fed funding structure going through the State
bureaucracies always adds time. Being a new program also adds to this,
because the receiving State has to figure out which office (new office?
etc) it goes to ... before actually doing the work of figuring out what
they want and going through contracting.

I don't know how long this "its new" part takes - it will vary State by
State anyway, and depend on political attention (motivation to act).

For just the contracting part I've written government contracts and our
general rule of thumb was that for a "Full & Open", if you hustled, from
the time you got the money to the procurement group until they would
issue a contract was ~1 year.

After that year had passed, the contractor actually starts their work.
If its something fairly simple and doesn't need new permits, plan for
another 6 months before there's a First Article test, etc.

Now there are ways to get around some of this leadtime. One is to start
working on the paperwork before the money showed up. Easy to say, but
how do you get paid before there's funding? This typically requires
specific management approval to do (eg "Short of Award") and local
policies vary on how much leadtime you're allowed to do here - one
office I've worked in only allowed 3 months. Another cheat is to find
an existing contract rather than to have to go Full & Open, such as
writing a modification onto an existing contract. Some groups now write
Task Order contracts which leave the actual work part blank when they're
competitively bid. The trick here is that these have legal boundaries
on what type of work they can cover, and your project's scope needs to
fit without those boundaries in order to use the Task Order contract.

Getting back to this program for EV chargers, its a new program, a five
year one, and goes through the States, so its planners know its going to
take quite a bit of time upfront to get started.

To use an analogy, its like expecting a woman to give birth to a baby at
the 3-4 month mark instead of at the normal 9 months: for any EV
chargers up & running today is very fast and probably had some other
shortcuts, like 'shovel ready' projects just awaiting funding. Here,
this also included it being a small, motivated State, so there was less
political infighting/etc to decide what State office was going to get
the new work added to their existing projects.

It's going to be great when he faces justice,
is locked up and finally shuts the fuck up for good.

There's room in Gitmo, but another suitable option would be to go
refurbish Dr Mudd's accommodations at Fort Jefferson. /s

If you have a medical emergency, stop reading, log off, and dial 911!

>>On 9/20/24 8:24 PM, Grill wrote:
>
>Not really: incompetent and/or corrupt politicians are found in both
>parties, even if they're more prevalent in the GOP thanks to Trump, but
>a big part here is the Fed funding structure going through the State
>bureaucracies always adds time. Being a new program also adds to this,
>because the receiving State has to figure out which office (new office?
>etc) it goes to ... before actually doing the work of figuring out what
>they want and going through contracting.
>
>I don't know how long this "its new" part takes - it will vary State by
>State anyway, and depend on political attention (motivation to act).
>
>For just the contracting part I've written government contracts and our
>general rule of thumb was that for a "Full & Open", if you hustled, from
>the time you got the money to the procurement group until they would
>issue a contract was ~1 year.
>
>After that year had passed, the contractor actually starts their work.
>If its something fairly simple and doesn't need new permits, plan for
>another 6 months before there's a First Article test, etc.
>
>Now there are ways to get around some of this leadtime. One is to start
>working on the paperwork before the money showed up. Easy to say, but
>how do you get paid before there's funding? This typically requires
>specific management approval to do (eg "Short of Award") and local
>policies vary on how much leadtime you're allowed to do here - one
>office I've worked in only allowed 3 months. Another cheat is to find
>an existing contract rather than to have to go Full & Open, such as
>writing a modification onto an existing contract. Some groups now write
>Task Order contracts which leave the actual work part blank when they're
>competitively bid. The trick here is that these have legal boundaries
>on what type of work they can cover, and your project's scope needs to
>fit without those boundaries in order to use the Task Order contract.
>
>Getting back to this program for EV chargers, its a new program, a five
>year one, and goes through the States, so its planners know its going to
>take quite a bit of time upfront to get started.
>
>To use an analogy, its like expecting a woman to give birth to a baby at
>the 3-4 month mark instead of at the normal 9 months: for any EV
>chargers up & running today is very fast and probably had some other
>shortcuts, like 'shovel ready' projects just awaiting funding. Here,
>this also included it being a small, motivated State, so there was less
>political infighting/etc to decide what State office was going to get
>the new work added to their existing projects.
>
>
> It's going to be great when he faces justice,
> is locked up and finally shuts the fuck up for good.
>
>
>There's room in Gitmo, but another suitable option would be to go
>refurbish Dr Mudd's accommodations at Fort Jefferson. /s

Good essay... and an accurate one.

I am old enough to remember being on ARPANET at my university and
reading articles about "The Information Super Highway"... even typing
that phrase is piquant! As I recall, that idea entered our vocabulary
somewhere around 1988 or so. We were in the period of steep growth
and great public interest throughout the '90s; however, that interest
(public and, consequently, political) has since attenuated.

“It’s been 1,039 days since Vice President Harris agreed to spearhead
this massive program... " Poof! That's two years and... where's my
calculator? ... less than three years, anyway. That's *nothing*!

I don't recall anyone saying that it's the Donald's fault; however, I
didn't ever see him doing much for anyone who wasn't able to return a
favor, and these "under served" communities are thus for a reason:
they lack political clout.

If we're going to use 1,039 days as our rubric by which to cut off a
program, then why are we still discussing that "border wall" thing?

On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:53:02 -0500, "X, formerly known as \"!Jones\"" <x@y.com>
wrote:

>I am old enough to remember being on ARPANET at my university and
>reading articles about "The Information Super Highway"... even typing
>that phrase is piquant! As I recall, that idea entered our vocabulary
>somewhere around 1988 or so. We were in the period of steep growth
>and great public interest throughout the '90s; however, that interest
>(public and, consequently, political) has since attenuated.
>
>“It’s been 1,039 days since Vice President Harris agreed to spearhead
>this massive program... " Poof! That's two years and... where's my
>calculator? ... less than three years, anyway. That's *nothing*!
>
>I don't recall anyone saying that it's the Donald's fault; however, I
>didn't ever see him doing much for anyone who wasn't able to return a
>favor, and these "under served" communities are thus for a reason:
>they lack political clout.
>
>If we're going to use 1,039 days as our rubric by which to cut off a
>program, then why are we still discussing that "border wall" thing?

<chuckle>

"The ‘feral 25-year-olds’ making Kamala Harris go viral on TikTok"
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/13/harris-tiktok-social-media-team/>

--

05) Trump said there were very fine people among the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville.
06) Trump allied himself with the Proud Boys, a violent hate group who
helped organize the attack on the Capitol. "Proud Boys, stand back and stand by."

On 22/09/2024 22:34, Governor Swill wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:53:02 -0500, "X, formerly known as \"!Jones\"" <x@y.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I am old enough to remember being on ARPANET at my university and
>> reading articles about "The Information Super Highway"... even typing
>> that phrase is piquant! As I recall, that idea entered our vocabulary
>> somewhere around 1988 or so. We were in the period of steep growth
>> and great public interest throughout the '90s; however, that interest
>> (public and, consequently, political) has since attenuated.
>>
>> “It’s been 1,039 days since Vice President Harris agreed to spearhead
>> this massive program... " Poof! That's two years and... where's my
>> calculator? ... less than three years, anyway. That's *nothing*!
>>
>> I don't recall anyone saying that it's the Donald's fault; however, I
>> didn't ever see him doing much for anyone who wasn't able to return a
>> favor, and these "under served" communities are thus for a reason:
>> they lack political clout.
>>
>> If we're going to use 1,039 days as our rubric by which to cut off a
>> program, then why are we still discussing that "border wall" thing?
>
> <chuckle>
>
> "The ‘feral 25-year-olds’ making Kamala Harris go viral on TikTok"
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/13/harris-tiktok-social-media-team/>

She is rather attractive, don't you think? 😀

David Brooks wrote:
> On 22/09/2024 22:34, Governor Swill wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:53:02 -0500, "X, formerly known as \"!Jones\""
>> <x@y.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am old enough to remember being on ARPANET at my university and
>>> reading articles about "The Information Super Highway"... even typing
>>> that phrase is piquant!  As I recall, that idea entered our vocabulary
>>> somewhere around 1988 or so.  We were in the period of steep growth
>>> and great public interest throughout the '90s; however, that interest
>>> (public and, consequently, political) has since attenuated.
>>>
>>> “It’s been 1,039 days since Vice President Harris agreed to spearhead
>>> this massive program... "  Poof!  That's two years and... where's my
>>> calculator? ... less than three years, anyway.  That's *nothing*!
>>>
>>> I don't recall anyone saying that it's the Donald's fault; however, I
>>> didn't ever see him doing much for anyone who wasn't able to return a
>>> favor, and these "under served" communities are thus for a reason:
>>> they lack political clout.
>>>
>>> If we're going to use 1,039 days as our rubric by which to cut off a
>>> program, then why are we still discussing that "border wall" thing?
>>
>> <chuckle>
>>
>> "The ‘feral 25-year-olds’ making Kamala Harris go viral on TikTok"
>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/13/harris-tiktok-social-media-team/>
>>
>
>
> She is rather attractive, don't you think? 😀
>
i might think that if i just got out of doing life in prison

David Brooks wrote:
> On 22/09/2024 22:34, Governor Swill wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:53:02 -0500, "X, formerly known as \"!Jones\""
>> <x@y.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am old enough to remember being on ARPANET at my university and
>>> reading articles about "The Information Super Highway"... even typing
>>> that phrase is piquant!  As I recall, that idea entered our vocabulary
>>> somewhere around 1988 or so.  We were in the period of steep growth
>>> and great public interest throughout the '90s; however, that interest
>>> (public and, consequently, political) has since attenuated.
>>>
>>> “It’s been 1,039 days since Vice President Harris agreed to spearhead
>>> this massive program... "  Poof!  That's two years and... where's my
>>> calculator? ... less than three years, anyway.  That's *nothing*!
>>>
>>> I don't recall anyone saying that it's the Donald's fault; however, I
>>> didn't ever see him doing much for anyone who wasn't able to return a
>>> favor, and these "under served" communities are thus for a reason:
>>> they lack political clout.
>>>
>>> If we're going to use 1,039 days as our rubric by which to cut off a
>>> program, then why are we still discussing that "border wall" thing?
>>
>> <chuckle>
>>
>> "The ‘feral 25-year-olds’ making Kamala Harris go viral on TikTok"
>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/13/harris-tiktok-social-media-team/>
>>
>
>
> She is rather attractive, don't you think? 😀
>