Moochers

Once again, Blue States taxes pay for what red states refuse to provide their citizens.

The US government plans to give SpaceX nearly a billion dollars to beam internet from space to people across rural America, where three out of five people say access to broadband is still a pressing issue. ... The FCC did award the bulk of the $9 billion worth of subsidies to more traditional providers.

If this sounds a tad familiar, well it is. Remember the Motorola satellite phone, known mostly as Iridium? Never much of a player, and this paper spells out why. The paper is a couple of years old, but still sets out the issues.

And what about 10s of thousands of teeny objects in low Earth orbit? Too small to radar track? Will the next ISS or moon or Mars rocket smash into some? Have a read of the wiki page which collects much of the background.

Dear God, will this mooching off the productive states never end!

Moscow Mitch is always happy to send money to the slovenly in his caucus, but as he tries evermore to reduce the Blue States to red state poverty, he'll be killing the redneck's Golden Goose. What other source of moolah does he think there is? Stupid is as stupid does.