E-NC Authority
June 25, 2010 - by
A while back President Obama’s administration was giving cell phones to people on welfare and, now, State Senator Doug Berger has sponsored a bill to have the “E-NC Authority” provide broadband Internet service to the same folks. It is unclear how hard-pressed welfare recipients will get computers.
Senator Berger’s bill may be seen as an example of the mystery of government logic. Or as an example of values in the modern age. Surely the poor have greater needs than broadband Internet service. Here in North Carolina we have liberals – like Senator Berger – voting to cut Medicaid (medical care to the poor) then turning around and in a burst of compassion giving the poor the Internet. It’s hard not to wonder if Senator Berger’s understanding of the needs of struggling families isn’t a bit out of kilter.
Last year Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Lanier Cansler won the boondoggle of the year award by giving a handicapped man with a drug problem $38,000 in crab pots to set him up in the fishing business.
Senator Berger has the inside track to win the award this year for most unusual use of taxpayers’ money.
E-NC Authority
June 25, 2010/
A while back President Obama’s administration was giving cell phones to people on welfare and, now, State Senator Doug Berger has sponsored a bill to have the “E-NC Authority” provide broadband Internet service to the same folks. It is unclear how hard-pressed welfare recipients will get computers.
Senator Berger’s bill may be seen as an example of the mystery of government logic. Or as an example of values in the modern age. Surely the poor have greater needs than broadband Internet service. Here in North Carolina we have liberals – like Senator Berger – voting to cut Medicaid (medical care to the poor) then turning around and in a burst of compassion giving the poor the Internet. It’s hard not to wonder if Senator Berger’s understanding of the needs of struggling families isn’t a bit out of kilter.
Last year Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Lanier Cansler won the boondoggle of the year award by giving a handicapped man with a drug problem $38,000 in crab pots to set him up in the fishing business.
Senator Berger has the inside track to win the award this year for most unusual use of taxpayers’ money.