FCC proposes subsidizing high-speed internet for low-income households

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/28/8677219/fcc-lifeline-program-broadband-subsidies-proposal

Just what we need... another damn entitlement!

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One of the Federal Communications Commission's biggest goals has been getting all Americans online, and today it's proposing new support for households that can't afford access. According to The New York Times, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler is proposing that the FCC begin providing subsidies on internet service to low-income households. The subsidies would come as part of an overhaul to the commission's Lifeline program, which has offered subsidies on phone service for the past 30 years. The program's basis has been that phone service is so critical to daily life that everyone should have it. Now, Wheeler is saying, that's true of broadband, too.

The Lifeline program typically gives households $9.25 per month toward phone service. To qualify, households must have an income of no higher than 135 percent of the poverty line or be part of other federal assistance programs, such as Medicaid. It doesn't appear any of that will be changing, except that households will now be able to apply the Lifeline credit to broadband service instead.

The program's shift toward broadband may be necessary to bring people online. As the Times points out, Pew found that, in 2013, little more than half of people making under $30,000 per year had broadband access. Minorities were also less likely to have access, with only 53 percent of Hispanic respondents having high-speed internet at home.

FCC commissioners will likely vote on the plan during their June 18th meeting. While the Democratic commissioners will likely support the plan, the two Republicans on the commission probably won't like it. Michael O’Rielly, one of those commissioners, tells the Times that he believes Lifeline is "inefficient, costly, and in serious need of review." There have been issues with abuse of Lifeline in the past, and Wheeler's proposal is expected to include additional safeguards to limit those concerns.

Phones, food, homes, medical care, many free education opportunities,etc.

What's another 30 bucks a month?

Oh and then there will be the glitch that NOW they need free computers.

It's no wonder generational welfare is now so common, why work when Uncle Sugar provides everything?

A government big enough to give you everything is big enough to take it away....Livestock depend on the farmer for everything then one day............. barbeque ....

Taking other peoples shit via govt is a basic human right.

The sheering is bad enough but sooner or later we all know what's going to happen...

*****SARCASTIC CHUCKLE*****

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swrLCQz-EaI

Hey. Can't people get their fat asses to the f-ing library? That's what I did when I couldn't afford the internet!!!

nochain wrote:

Phones, food, homes, medical care, many free education opportunities,etc.

What's another 30 bucks a month?

Oh and then there will be the glitch that NOW they need free computers.

It's no wonder generational welfare is now so common, why work when Uncle Sugar provides everything?

How about getting a JOB and paying for something?.... Your above list of handouts [not freebies cuz they ain't free] alone answers why there are so many that can't even comprehend the concept of employment....

riceme wrote:

Hey. Can't people get their fat asses to the f-ing library? That's what I did when I couldn't afford the internet!!!

You're expecting way too much out of the entitlement crowd and those in government that continually feed the entitlement budget beast...

mediawatcher wrote:

riceme wrote:

Hey. Can't people get their fat asses to the f-ing library? That's what I did when I couldn't afford the internet!!!

     You're expecting way too much out of the entitlement crowd and those in government that continually feed the entitlement budget beast...

Bunch of lazy-assed, good for nothing sons o bitches.

riceme wrote:

mediawatcher wrote:

riceme wrote:

Hey. Can't people get their fat asses to the f-ing library? That's what I did when I couldn't afford the internet!!!

     You're expecting way too much out of the entitlement crowd and those in government that continually feed the entitlement budget beast...

Bunch of lazy-assed, good for nothing sons o bitches.

Couldn't agree more but quit holding back and tell us how ya really feel!...

mediawatcher wrote:

riceme wrote:

mediawatcher wrote:

riceme wrote:

Hey. Can't people get their fat asses to the f-ing library? That's what I did when I couldn't afford the internet!!!

     You're expecting way too much out of the entitlement crowd and those in government that continually feed the entitlement budget beast...

Bunch of lazy-assed, good for nothing sons o bitches.

         
 

  Couldn't agree more but quit holding back and tell us how ya really feel!...

LOL. I hear that a lot at work, too.