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  • Bicycle analogy in Congress

    From AMuzi@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 28 08:30:21 2025
    "Like a stick in the spokes" found on page four of this
    report to Congress, advocating no changes to the $43.5
    billion broadband service plan from 2021.

    https://d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/03_05_25_Morris_Testimony_5d908be9f3.pdf

    Well, a stick in the spokes is a Very Bad Thing.

    But the analogy may be overwrought. The nearly decade-long
    action plan (pages 3 & 4 above) hasn't connected one single
    building. And most probably never will.

    https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/promise/1591/expand-broadband-or-wireless-broadband-5g-every-am/

    In fairness, the same general program during Mr Trump's
    first term, both of Mr Obama's terms and the G W Bush era
    resulted in the magic disappearance of piles of tax dollars
    to no tangible result.
    --
    Andrew Muzi
    [email protected]
    Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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  • From Radey Shouman@21:1/5 to AMuzi on Fri Mar 28 16:51:44 2025
    AMuzi <[email protected]> writes:

    "Like a stick in the spokes" found on page four of this report to
    Congress, advocating no changes to the $43.5 billion broadband service
    plan from 2021.

    https://d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/03_05_25_Morris_Testimony_5d908be9f3.pdf

    Well, a stick in the spokes is a Very Bad Thing.

    Doesn't hurt a bit if you're not moving at all.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
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