The visit might have something to do with an open Senate seat race in Tennessee this November. Nashville isn’t very rural.
Unleashing even more factory farming?
Hope these guys show up
Central to the report will be the assessment that the “provider for an equalization among rural America is connectivity; that high-speed internet should remain a high priority for the administration,” said Ray Starling,
Translation: Here’s another opportunity to screw a few more bucks out of the rubes, once we get that net neutrality shit outta the way and some more fiber strung up.
Trump Heads To Nashville To Promote Plans To Boost Economy In Rural Areas
Will not make a hill-o-beans difference… number of years ago to obtain a merger approval ATT promised that they would bring broadband to rural areas. This initiative is one of The Dumpster’s infrastructure plans. I’ll be very surprised if the results are anything different than what was experienced with the ATT merger. Example: in 2010 I moved to East TN when I retired to be closer to my kids. One of the things I looked for was a residence that had decent broadband so I could continue to consult on a part time basis. When I inquired about connections every carrier stated “we have broadband available in the whole area”. Well that turned out to be Bull Phucky. I purchased a home within 6 miles of the city center and less than 1 mile from the Interstate exchange. What did I find, landline phone service was so bad you consider yourself lucky if you heard every 3rd word, next there was zero TV unless you used a satellite and/or an antenna. Additionally the very very very best internet was 14400 baud dialup, yes I said 14400. But once again if you inquired, everyone had broadband service that covered 100% of the area. Last item, while I could get 1 bar cell service if I went outside, my neighbors got zilch.
Let me add that now 8 years later things have not changed…wait wait one minute, last summer a cable company, not ATT, has strung wires to within 1 mile of the house. Speed at $50 per month is 1 meg.
ha ha ha ha ha
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Muni broadband is the only way to go. Like any other utility, almost everything is above board. Well worth it.
Right, let’s all hold our breaths waiting for Trump to do anything to help rural economies. That would require spending of federal money, with programs like the TVA and rural electrification. They cost money and the repugs in the Congress won’t go for it, even if Trump wanted to do it, which he doesn’t.
Rural America has a much greater poverty problem than urban America and drumpf has absolutely no desire to fix it. That would require increasing Medicaid so that rural hospitals would stop closing and to cover more people. It would require increasing agricultural exports because the only thing keeping the bottom from falling out of the agriculture market from corn and soybeans to milk and beef is exports, and drumpf has no intention of increasing trade. It would require actually doing something about the opioid problem and drumpf isn’t about to do anything to alleviate it because that would offend Big Pharm and undercut Sessions’ program of “getting tough on crime.” It would require actually freeing up the internet so that municipalities could put in their own broadband, and drumpf has no intention of cutting into the profits of Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and others.
In other words, drumpf isn’t about to do anything.
He should speak over the fields.
The amount of bullshit he spreads would be great for the crops.
While we know Trump’s words hold no truth or value, this should be a wake up call to Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to get off their fat asses and start working to earn America’s votes and get to work of reviving rural America and our inner city slums.
Pelosi and Schumer need to hand the party over to Bernie…Bernie knows how to rebuild the working class just as he did in Burlington, Vermont as mayor. Bernie saved Burlington and he could save America’s middle class and dethrone and defeat robber baron (crooks) rule.
It would also require a sizable increase in law enforcement budgets because rural America has become the meth capitol of the country.
The reason Republicans want to kill the ACA slowly is because of the two million jobs that would vanish if it was done in one step. Most of them would be in rural areas.
Read this last night about two more changes to slowly strangle the ACA:
This is in addition to the plan to let nine states require Medicaid recipients to work:
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/367514-trump-poised-to-take-action-on-medicaid-work-requirements.
Eight of those states that have applications to implement work requirements are: Arkansas, Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, Utah and Wisconsin.
Not until he officially joins the party, at the very least.
Hand the party over to someone who is not a member? Never.
And people I know voted for Bernie for Congress. To get him out of Burlington. Where he could do real damage.
What major Sanders initiative has become law? Nothing. He talks a good game, but that is all it is. Talk.
And talk is cheap.
The Donald J. Trump/Republican Party Rural Economic Plan:
“You are all going to die, motherfuckers!”
Look at what was done for rural America by the previous administration. Not only did they benefit from the ACA. There was rural broadband in the recovery act. Plus an increase in funding for the Appalachian Regional Commission which does everything from planning, infrastructure and job training. Obama proposed a 4% increase for it in the 2016-17 budget that was shot down.
Sometimes folks in these communities and those who represent them will cut off nose to spite face.