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We got an overview of those "efforts" a few months back and it was both comical and enraging to hear how much money and time was wasted. And this was a law+process crafted by Democrats, signed by a Democrat President, and presided over by a Democrat Administration.. they had all the pieces in place to accomplish their goals.

Ref: https://youtu.be/NcZxaFfxloo?t=990

When you have tons of paperwork and ZERO deployments (not exaggerating), there's nothing to revert.. just a lot to be disappointed by.

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Jon Stewart has a good point there as well, saying “the Democrats think it can’t solve anything unless is solves everything”. Over the last decade or so they’ve weighed everything down with stupidity. Ezra has specific examples; that’s a really good interview.

Another good quote: “It’s almost as if they had designed this machine to make sure that people in rural areas _never_ get broadband…”

Ooh, Ezra: “This is the Biden administration’s process for it’s own bill. They wanted this to happen. This is how liberal government works now.”

Nonsense. It was working fine and following close to the expected schedule. Numerous states had submitted their proposals for how they would use the money, those had been reviewed and approved, and the states were accepting bids from companies to do the construction and starting to select and approve them.

Delaware, Louisiana, and Nevada had selected contractors and passed final federal review and were ready to start construction as soon as the funds were disbursed.

Another 40 had contractors selected and were just waiting for final federal review to complete and funds to be disbursed. If the program had not been changed by the Trump administration most of them would have had construction starting this year.

All large efforts like this take a few years to go from initial passing of the law that enables them to construction actually starting.

Bug: Closed. Works as designed.

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