Comcast creates reduced-price Internet package for welfare participants

[Billybob]

Wow, corporate welfare for Comcast, job security for the cable guy, and pandering for votes all in one.

[The Comcast offering will provide discounted Internet packages to residents who qualify for the National School Lunch Program and other government assistance programs. Comcast hopes to enroll 2.5 million families during the program’s initial launch and millions more overall.

Internet Essentials will supply low income households with high-speed Internet access for less than $10 per month. It will also sell computers to enrollees for less than $150 and provide digital literacy training.

“Clearly, being connected to the Internet is not only important, but vital,” Manchester, N.H. Mayor Ted Gatsas told the Telegraph.]

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/22/c...ckage-for-welfare-participants/#ixzz1Z19dCOhb

 

[Biggsly]

Don't forget the free cell phones.

 

[Billybob]

Don't forget the free cell phones.

"This program is not America’s first step into digi-welfare. Government programs spent more than $1 billion in 2009 and 2010 providing cell phones and wireless plans to low-income Americans."


http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/22/c...ce-internet-package-for-welfare-participants/

 

[tran]

When will it end?

 

[soonersfan]

When will it end?

When China takes over.

 

[Dave70968]

I didn't see anything in there about funding by tax dollars. Are you people really getting your panties in a wad because a company is offering to help people out of its own pocket?

 

[loudshirt]

I didn't see anything in there about funding by tax dollars. Are you people really getting your panties in a wad because a company is offering to help people out of its own pocket?

Maybe we are. I know I work hard for everything I have and to know that people get the same things I get for free or at a great discount gets under my skin. I cant stand that some of the reasoning behind many of these things is so that they dont feel like less of a person or some crap like that. Like many people I have to pay all my own bills and if i cant afford it I dont get it. Used to be if you wanted something you just worked harder, now just wait and someone will give it too you. That is a great lesson to teach kids.

 

[Hobbes]

If a corporation wants to market toward a segment of society and increase their market share that's their business.

 

[338Shooter]

I dont care. When they need bailed out by the government I'll care.

 

[MLRyan]

I didn't see anything in there about funding by tax dollars. Are you people really getting your panties in a wad because a company is offering to help people out of its own pocket?

It's not funded by tax dollars. The problem here is they are marketing to a economic demographic that relies on government programs(tax money) for financial support. See, their income comes from tax money. Why do they need my tax money for internet/tv?