Remember the good old days when Grandpa Dennis would constantly lecture us about the importance of self-reliance?
Nuts to that! Governor Kristi Noem admits South Dakota can’t solve it’s own problems without big government. Here’s her celebration of $4.9 million from Uncle Sam to boost rural broadband:
In South Dakota, the FCC is granting Midcontinent Communications nearly $4.9 million to bring service to 892 more locations. According to the [FCC] news release, providers will start receiving funding this month.
…Kristin Wileman, a spokesperson for Noem, said in a Monday emailed statement that the state “cannot tackle this problem alone,” and that Noem is “thrilled” to see the FCC funds coming to South Dakota.
“It requires an all-hands-on-deck approach,” Wileman said. “These dollars will go a long way in closing South Dakota’s digital divide and ensuring the next generation has access to online opportunities” [Sarah Mearhoff, “FCC Looks to ‘Close the Digital Divide,’ Provide $4.9 Million for S.D. Rural Broadband,” Mitchell Daily Republic, 2019.08.13].
South Dakota can’t build its own broadband without federal help any more than Kristi’s family built their own wealth without federal farm subsidies. Yay, big government, says South Dakota’s biggest Republican!
President Obama’s stimulus package for rural America. The only president since FDR who has shown he cared about the plight of rural American needs. Yup, that guy. GNOem and the rest of the fascist team, will want to lay claim that this is their deal, but it is far from from that, this is Socialism as it’s finest!
Here’s $ for NoMa’am and SD:
From Numlock News by Walt Hickey.
Bonds
States regularly return unclaimed property to their rightful owners, but in the event that nobody comes to claim items they often revert to the state. This is a fairly big deal when it comes to unclaimed savings bonds, which citizens bought but never cashed in or willed before they died. States really, really want that money from the feds: 24 have passed laws to allow the states to claim legal title to unclaimed bonds, but the Treasury isn’t cool with that, arguing that if people knew that states can extract bonds from them, they’d be less attractive investments. It’s culminating in a major lawsuit, complicated by the fact that while physical bonds are quite easy to argue are in state possession, bonds became electronic in 2012. The federal government says it would take $128 million and 2,390 employees to digitize, organize, and disburse all the pre-1974 bonds at issue here. The states say it’d cost $3.5 million, tops. At issue is $25 billion in matured, unclaimed U.S. savings bonds. It’s basically Ocean’s Eleven, if the eleven participants were Kansas, Tennessee, Florida, New Jersey, Indiana, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Iowa, and South Dakota.
Sara Randazzo, The Wall Street Journal
Remember when America used to feed the world? That’s gone. President Trump has begun a Cold War with China that will last for fifty years. That’s how long they last. Trump thought he could bully China into capitulation. As predicted, Xi Jinping has just proclaimed that China is too dependent on USA for it’s own good. China intends to move steadily toward cutting off all relations with us.
The rednecks will cheer. Huzzah!! The deep thinkers will face palm.
What’s next? Look for USA corporations to be escorted to the China border.
They won’t come back home to USA, though. We ran their polluting, greedy butts out a here, long ago.
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This country was not built by “self-reliance” only. We do best with a good mix of regulated capitalism, a social safety net and moderate democratic socialism. Getting that mix right is difficult, and it always will be a contested ideological space. South Dakota had a socialist cement plant and a socialist railroad for many years. The state still refuses to pay its own way. Call it whatever you want: it ain’t “self-reliance.”
It took 50 years to complete the transfer of our manufacturing assets to China. It’ll take that long to bring it back and use our IP to change means of production at scale.
I would like to see fiber to the curb, and for 5G to be s-canned. What a waste of resources .. like of the US government intel community invested trillions of dollars into cigarettes.
The only acceptable socialist programs winguts accept are the ones with millions of federal dollars in the offing. Then, they are all socialists.
Mike, I agree. Protective Socialism for the billionaires and dog-eat-dog capitalism for the rest.