"Lawmakers" order AT&T to offer below-cost internet service to low-income; AT&T ends the service

"Lawmakers" are some of the dumbest sumbitches on the planet.  Only one in a thousand knows anything about economics, or energy, or anything other than grift and getting re-elected.

Latest example is from the shithole state of New York, where telecom giant AT&T offered 5G home internet service for $60 a month for customers who didn't have cable or fiber internet.

Wokie NY lawmakers felt this was too pricey for low-income families.  The woke "leaders" bleated dat "It jus' not FAIR dat duh eeeebil big company won't give dis service fo' what we think dey should!"

So duh woke lawmakerz passed a law--soothingly called the "Affordable Broadband Act"--ORDERING the company to provide its 5G home internet to low-income families for $15 a month.  

"Yay!  Problem solved!  See, we kin use ouah wokie majority to make doze greedy companies do anything we want!"

So how'd that work out?

The company stopped offering that service in the whole state.  And the wokiez are absolutely FURIOUS!  "How dare they do dis!"

The wokiez arguments are sneering: "AT&T: 'The poor don't need internet.'"  Of course the company never even remotely said that, but it's how leftists sway public opinion.  Exactly like communism does it: "Your home has three bedrooms, comrade.  The Committee has decided to assign two more families to live in your house."

Y'know, this would be a great chance for AT&T to make a point: Tell wokie customers they can sign up to pay the difference between $60 and $15 each month, for a specific family.  That way the wokiez feel virtuous.

See, by ending the service in NY, AT&T will lose money.  But they knew if they bent the knee, wokiez in EVERY state where the company offers the service would pass similar laws, which would cost the company a lot more than it'll lose in NY.  Better to make the point now.

Source. 

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/att-complies-with-law-requiring-cheap-internet-by-ending-a-service-in-ny

Survey: a huge majority of Democrat federal employees say they will refuse to implement Trump policies

SO...for those Americans who believe talk of an entrenched army of fed employees comprising a "Deep State," someone did a survey of fed employees.  Here's what they found:

Almost three quarters of Democrat bureaucrats--73%--say the plan to ‘somewhat resist’ or ‘strongly resist’ orders and policies from president Trump.  40% of Democrat managers said they will ‘strongly resist.’   

The survey also asked federal managers what they would do if directed to implement a lawful policy they didn't like.  64% said they would refuse to implement the policy and do what they thought was best.  Only 17% of Democratic managers said they would implement a lawful policy ordered by Trump if they didn't like it

And these sons of bitches can't be fired.  Corrupt Dem judges will order that employees who refuse CAN'T be fired.  Dems in congress will bleat that federal managers have an absolute right to refuse to implement policies they don't like.  

Sadly, many of the changes Americans voted for last November will be blocked by these sons of bitches.  Just watch. 

How most Dem voters think problems will be solved