Comcast creates reduced-price Internet package for welfare participants

[MLRyan]

In other words, it's a whine about welfare thread.

Exactly!

 

[Hobbes]

I saw on Neil Cavuto's show that 96% of people who live in poverty in America have a refrigerator.

The nerve.

 

[cjjtulsa]

How many here have tried to contact OKDHS or another entity, and volunteered to buy a cell phone and pay for a monthly plan for a few years for someone on welfare? How many have attempted to pay the monthly internet charges for someone on welfare? Anyone? Why not?

 

[Billybob]

Apparently it's not Gov. funded like the cell phones. It's said to be part of an agreement with the FCC to allow Comcast to merge with NBC.

http://moneyland.time.com/2011/08/1...s-10-a-month-service-for-low-income-families/

 

[Dave70968]

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.

This is a private organization spending its own money to help kids who probably wouldn't otherwise have access to a resource that's becoming increasingly important in our society. By providing this access, Comcast is helping to make the kids more computer-literate and thus more employable in the future.

Tell me, do you get all butthurt when people throw money in the collection plate at church, too?

 

[Rob72]

This is a private organization spending its own money to help kids who probably wouldn't otherwise have access to a resource that's becoming increasingly important in our society.

You're talking about all the free porn downloads, right?

This is the bottom line:
Comcast has financial incentive to provide the "service"- their merger ($$$$$) will be okay-ed. The Fed has incentive to allow provision of the service, because it is being given to those who are already "incentivised" to enhance the welfare state with their vote.

Is internet access restricted to metlibrary, MIT's free auto-didactics, community college access and regional/local news? If not, it isn't a hand-up, its a hand-out. This isn't altruistic or helpful. Just another variation of vote-buying.

 

[okie_gunslinger]

Probably not a bad thing, Just tells me that the rest of us are overpaying for the services we receive. As for those on welfare, most employers I deal with are going to internet based hiring, so without the internet it's more difficult to finda and obtain a job. Paper applications are most likely going to be a thing of the past in the coming years.

 

[870WingBlaster]

probably not a bad thing, just tells me that the rest of us are overpaying for the services we receive. As for those on welfare, most employers i deal with are going to internet based hiring, so without the internet it's more difficult to finda and obtain a job. Paper applications are most likely going to be a thing of the past in the coming years.

this +1

 

[MFCEO]

keep giving them free **** and they will keep using our tax money to be lazy.

 

[MFCEO]

Probably not a bad thing, Just tells me that the rest of us are overpaying for the services we receive. As for those on welfare, most employers I deal with are going to internet based hiring, so without the internet it's more difficult to finda and obtain a job. Paper applications are most likely going to be a thing of the past in the coming years.

you make it sound like they actually go out and apply for jobs?