Our tax dollars at work - soap operas
From
The Washington Times:
Online soap opera cleans up with stimulus broadband cash
You may not have seen the show �Diary of a Single Mom� co-starring Billy Dee Williams, but your tax dollars helped pay for it.
Through the federal economic stimulus program, a company owned by actor-director Robert Townsend was paid more than $230,000 to produce and direct the Web-based show, records show. Other production costs on the show paid to different vendors total more than $700,000.
The money came through an award by the Department of Commerce to One Economy Corp. for more than $28 million last year to help boost broadband Internet service in underserved areas across the country.
One Economy is using more than $1.5 million of that money to create programming such as �Diary of a Single Mom,� which the group says will help provide an incentive for people to connect to the Internet.
But taxpayer watchdogs say the government doesn�t belong in show business.
Emphasis mine -- I am sitting here typing this via a slow 3G cell phone signal being bounced off a mountain through $600 worth of amplification and fancy antennae. The local cable company stops two miles from my house (no line of sight -- already thought about this) and the two satellite services I have tried were so heavily oversubscribed as to be next to useless.
This has been done before and the money was wasted -- why do we expect it to be done right this time. Our tax dollars "at work"
Posted by DaveH at December 2, 2011 10:26 AM