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Getting WV connected would be great. In many areas crappy service from Frontier is the only option. It's slow and often simply doesn't work. People who live there are essentially cut off from much of the online world.
I'm very skeptical that this will wind up actually helping people, though. More than likely it'll just be a cash donation to industry.
Yes. Even though this is the right thing to do, I do not trust them to do the right thing.
Education is still the answer to rural poverty. I have college grads in the family who live in very rural areas but make a good living on the internet and only go to the city once a week to their parent companies. Yet there are still Republicans who fight programs that help bring high speed internet to rural areas.
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Rural areas have always suffered from a lack of infrastructure. Now that includes high speed broadband. If your area lack that, along with lack of a nearby airport and good roads and schools, lotsa luck attracting employers that will pay a living wage.
Rural areas have always suffered from a lack of infrastructure. Now that includes high speed broadband. If your area lack that, along with lack of a nearby airport and good roads and schools, lotsa luck attracting employers that will pay a living wage.
Education is a big one. Rural areas are the lowest scoring on the totem pole and they NEED a strong public school system to survive at all....'survive'...not 'thrive'.....
Yet there are still Republicans who fight programs that help bring high speed internet to rural areas.
Why won't private companies install high speed internet in rural areas?
Cost versus profit, perhaps?
So why should government compel one to pay so that another person will benefit?
Isn't that (ahem) involuntary servitude - - slavery?
. . . sigh . . .
Well, which is it? Not many economic opportunities in rural areas.
Well darlin', I can't speak for Fluidfreedom, to whom you posed your question. I'm retired & live in Hawaii and as far as I know there are no Cracker Barrels/Dollar Generals here. I'm sure you mean it as an insult, but I see nothing wrong with working at either place.
Again, you expose your own hypocrisy.
Mahalo
Hoot
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