Comments on: Trump Touts Rural Broadband Initiative, Farm Agenda

By: Johnny Freedom

Johnny Freedom — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:04:11 +0000

@Jim
What it means is that service providers can gouge you for whatever fees they desire, not to mention fees on small businesses whose websites they host. If you can’t pay, you can’t play. This trickle down garbage didn’t work when Reagan pushed it and it’s not working now. The rich continue to get richer and if the little guy doesn’t see any benefit, well pal, sorry, maybe if you’d tried harder. The gap widens and the decades of institutionalized class warfare on the working class continues.

I’m in my mid-30s. I work 60 some odd hours a week, I make a decent living, I live fairly simply, and yet I still live paycheck to paycheck and rent my home. Let me be clear, I have taken 2 unemployment checks in my life, I don’t rely on social services. I believe that everyone has a right and duty to work. I know too many people that destroy themselves working 3 jobs and still have to rely on government services to make ends meet. I’m not talking about levelling the playing field, I’m just asking for a fighting chance. People can’t say they work for a living anymore, they can just say they work to exist.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:11:26 +0000

@ Johnny Freedom: “Net Neutrality” is just another nice sounding name for a devious and harmful program initiated by the previous administration. It caters to the UN, gives control over the Internet regulation to government, and to International groups. Don’t let the Democrat propaganda machine tell you what to think. Net neutrality programs would have allowed the Socialists that dominate the UN control over what you could or couldn’t do on the internet, and much like the show called Affordable Care Act that no one could afford, it would have stifled and strangled innovation. That’s one of the great things about our capitalistic economy: manufacturers and producers or most innovative when they are in competition with one another, and, yes, looking toward being profitable. Keeping this in mind, you will see that your president and mine, President Trump is doing all he can to help those who have to work and earn a living.

By: Johnny Freedom

Johnny Freedom — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 18:52:08 +0000

@Ponderosa Hill

I’ve dug more than a few ditches, I can swing a hammer pretty well too. If by “for the people,” you mean “white, upper class men,” then yes, he is “for the people.”

@Jim

My family up until my parents’ generation were cotton and corn farmers. He wants to help bring broadband internet to rural areas but also rescind Net Neutrality? The man will speak out of both sides of his mouth in order to get what he wants. What happens to these farms when he removes enough environmental regulation that the farmland becomes useless?

Everyone complains about regulation because nobody gives a damn about what happens to everyone else after their time on this Earth is over. They’d rather make a pile of money and let their kids deal with it. Now he wants to open up our coastlines to more drilling. Has everyone forgotten Deepwater Horizon? Madness.

By: Ponderosa hill

Ponderosa hill — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:26:15 +0000

@johnny free:
Your words sure smell of liberal mindset…..my guess is you can’t stand
it that we’ve a President that’s for the People. Ever dug a ditch yourself
Johnny ?

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:08:28 +0000

@Johnny Freedom: You don’t have to be a farmer to recognize how invaluable our American farmers and ranchers are. I’m not a farmer, but I am the descendant of farmers. You can’t deny that getting rid of unnecessary regulation that was strangling the livelihood of our rural economy is it a positive step. Efforts to make broadband Internet available across rural areas and farmlands will allow Farmers to make use of modern technology to become even more efficient and producfive. You don’t have to like the President to know that these are definite positives. The previous administration did everything they could to give large farming corporations the advantage over local cooperatives and individual farmers. It’s good to see this is being reversed.

By: Johnny Freedom

Johnny Freedom — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:38:05 +0000

This dude was born on third base and acts like he hit a triple.

When has he ever gotten his hands dirty (Like, with actual dirt, not with shady business dealings or institutionalized racism)?

The self-dubbed voice of the American Farmer was born the son of a wealthy real estate developer and has spent most of his life turning his nose up at the working class. He’d rather throw 20 stories of stucco, black marble, and gold mirrors on your farm than actually deal with the people that work the land.