FCC must start winding down low-income program as Congress fails to add money.

The Federal Communications Commission is about to start winding down a program that gives $30 monthly broadband discounts to people with low incomes, and says it will have to complete the shutdown by May if Congress doesn’t provide more funding.

  • Philo@sh.itjust.works
    1101·
    9 months ago

    Another great fuck you to the less financially able citizens of this country by the GOP. When the hell will we learn?

    • DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      9 months ago

      It’s been their philosophy for a while now, Grover Norquist and his lame ass “don’t raise taxes” pledge was one of the first of their idiots saying the quiet part out loud, they just want to starve the beast to destroy our government and trust in it so that they can push forward with their neo-Confederaracy/neo-Feudalism.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        71·
        9 months ago

        Grover Norquist was also the piece of shit who said he wanted the government so small that it could be drowned in a bathtub.

        And he did stand-up comedy in the D.C. area. Really. He must have been just hilarious, so I’m not sure why he hasn’t been given a Netflix special.

  • rivermonster@lemmy.world
    98·
    9 months ago

    Dems when in power: There’s is nothing we can do.

    Dems when out of power: we aren’t in power There’s nothing we can do.

    Republicans are like hitting the gas to the right and fascism, and dems are like switching to neutral and coasting.

    • Vanon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      D’s when controlling govt: Create stuff like this (plus terribly advertise it). R’s when controlling govt: Kill stuff like this (plus tax cuts for wealthy, destroy govt). Very predictable. Easy choice.

      I get that people want to see D’s fight harder and not be a bunch of weak cowards, though.

      • rivermonster@lemmy.world
        21·
        9 months ago

        It’s not fight harder… it’s fight AT ALL. Not like Obama when he gave away his court pick and pretended he was powerless, causing Roe V Wade to be overturned. Nobody is more responsible than Obaam who did jack shit to fight.

        He had the largest bully pulpit and didn’t use it. Maybe an off comment here and there. He should have been on wvery night and used every available or questionable presidential power.

        The dems are the party of Joe Manchin and Sinema. So desperate for power that they stand for NOTHING, and never wield it even when given to them.

        And let’s he honest, economically they’re identical to the GOP. Biden was a linchpin of not being able to discharge student debt. LOL, you know the wrong he’s fighting but won’t own up to his role in creating?

        Day 1 Biden could have canceled the student debt. Even if it was challenged, in court… worst case is after dragging it through the courts for years, you lose, and then you the same thing slightly differently and re-litigate it.

        This is the norm from Bush and Trump years. And if dems pretend like there still are rules, even though their opponents don’t follow them, then you get this–the collapse of the union and political violence virtually identical to the fall of the Weimar Republic.

        Pretending there are norms are why Obama was a failure, things like no police reform, no immigration reform, no path to citizenship, gitmo never closed, and on and on. The only thing Obama got done was bring set up to cash in for millions and millions after his term. He’s not gonna waste his time building homes for the poor, he’s got $$$$ to make.

        The point is that it’s all theater to give you the feeling that there’s a choice. But really there’s no left party. There’s no socialists and communists to vote for or even in the national discourse. Dems get my vote just bc they’re not pro fascism. But honestly a vote for dems just leads to fascism slower. For all the surveillance acts approved under them and under Obama.

        I want to be wrong and will raise a glass with you if I am. But I’m pretty sure the union is just going to collapse. Best to gear up for it and gope that from the ashes something without capitalists emerges.

  • kaitco@lemmy.world
    0·
    9 months ago

    Come on, man! I just applied to it!

    I was going to get denied anyway, but you miss 100% of the shots you don’t…yadda, yadda…