Thursday, January 15, 2015

Obama calls for government-run broadband service

President Obama has called on cities and towns to create their own broadband service for their residents to compete with large corporations.
Obama was in Cedar Rapids, Iowa touting the plan to get states to relax their rules against municipalities setting up their own networks. Cedar Rapids got an exemption from the FCC to create their own networks a few years ago.
Republicans in Congress reacted immediately.
The Hill:
"In Tennessee we have a term to describe people like President Obama — tone-deaf,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said in a statement.
“At a time when Americans think the biggest problem facing our nation today is big government, you would think he'd have gotten the message by now,” she added. “We don't need unelected bureaucrats like FCC [Federal Communications Commission] Chairman Tom Wheeler dictating to our states what they can and can't do with respect to protecting their limited taxpayer dollars and private enterprises.”

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/01/obama_calls_for_governmentrun_broadband_service.html#ixzz3OuDX2jDA

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