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   From: kenya@today.com   
      
   Vice President Kamala Harris is shamelessly trying to run away from her   
   'Border Czar' responsibilities, often with the assistance of a compliant   
   'news' media, but that wasn't the only major job with which she's been   
   tasked in the Biden-Harris administration.  The president also tapped   
   her to help lead and oversee a number of expensive 'green' and   
   infrastructure initiatives.  On a costly plan to install new electric   
   vehicle chargers (Harris is suddenly pretending she has nothing to do   
   with EV mandates she has supported and co-sponsored), Politico described   
   its 'progress' in late 2023: "Congress at the urging of the Biden   
   administration agreed in 2021 to spend $7.5 billion to build tens of   
   thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the country, aiming to   
   appease anxious drivers while tackling climate change. Two years later,   
   the program has yet to install a single charger."  This past summer, the   
   results were still embarrassing: "Just seven electric-vehicle charging   
   stations have begun operating with funding from a $5-billion US   
   government program created in 2021, marking “patheticâ€� progress, a   
   Democratic senator said on Wednesday."   
      
   That serves as a backdrop to a related matter on which Harris was   
   explicitly placed in charge.  FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr summarized   
   the issue in a recent Wall Street Journal op/ed, explaining how a   
   much-ballyhooed rural broadband project has utterly failed thus far, on   
   Harris' watch:   
      
   Kamala Harris lamented recently that “in America, it takes too long and   
   it costs too much to build.â€� She’s right. But she failed to mention that   
   those costly delays are a feature, not a bug, of her progressive   
   policies. Consider Ms. Harris’s record. In 2021 she agreed to lead the   
   administration’s $42 billion plan for expanding high-speed internet to   
   millions of Americans. That year, she tweeted that “we can bring   
   broadband to rural America today.â€� Today, nearly three years after   
   Congress passed the infrastructure bill that created the program, not   
   one home or business has been connected through it. The Biden-Harris   
   administration recently confirmed that construction projects won’t begin   
   until next year at the earliest, and in many cases not until 2026.   
      
   Instead of focusing on delivering broadband to unserved areas, the   
   administration has used the program to advance a wish list of political   
   goals. It has adopted regulations that include diversity, equity and   
   inclusion requirements, climate-change rules, price controls,   
   preferences for union labor, and schemes that favor government-run   
   networks.  The administration has been handing out wins to favored   
   political groups rather than delivering results. Other factors have kept   
   Ms. Harris’s high-speed program in the slow lane. Testifying before a   
   congressional oversight committee, one state government official   
   described “a chaotic implementation environmentâ€� marked by â   
   œdysfunctionâ€�   
   and “delays.â€� The administration, she said, “has provided either no   
   guidance, guidance given too late, or guidance changing midstream.â€�   
      
   This is, of course, a poor reflection on the Biden-Harris   
   administration, an indictment of her leadership, and another example of   
   why bloated government programs are so often wasteful and useless.  It   
   also begs the question of what, if anything, Harris has done well as   
   Vice President.  But what makes this all worse is Commissioner Carr's   
   subsequent allegation that Facebook is censoring his accurate WSJ piece   
   as 'misinformation:'   
      
      
   Facebook is now censoring the fact that VP Harris has failed to connect   
   even one person to the Internet despite leading the Administration’s $42   
   billion infrastructure plan for 1,000+ days. Facebook is labeling this   
   â€œfalse information,â€� not because anyone has been connected—no one   
   has—but because the government has been spending money while not   
   connecting anyone. Worse?  The fact checker’s only sources are   
   Biden-Harris officials. I thought Zuckerberg promised Congress that it   
   had stopped censoring posts at the behest of the Biden-Harris   
   Administration...Here’s what VP Harris and Facebook don’t want you to   
   know: VP Harris has been leading the Administration’s $42 billion   
   program to expand Internet access to millions of Americans for 1,070   
   days. Zero people have been connected. Zero shovels worth of dirt have   
   even been turned.   
      
   A social media giant is suppressing accurate information, furnished by a   
   government official--deciding it's "false," based on the say-so of   
   other, favored government officials. That is unacceptable and   
   disturbing, but it can't be seen as terribly surprising at this point.   
   But for those who purport to care about democracy dying in darkness, and   
   'misinformation,' and transparency, how can this sort of thing be   
   justified or defended?  Or is it an ends-justify-the-means gambit that   
   throttles or blocks unhelpful information (even if there's a dispute   
   about whether it's fully correct, or at least disputed, or lacking   
   context) right before an election?  As for other elements of Harris'   
   record and worldview, this was revealing:   
      
   A number of people have pointed out this juxtaposition:   
      
   I'll leave you with some of the other interesting choices Harris and her   
   surrogates are making entering the final stretch of this high-stakes   
   campaign:   
      
   https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2024/10/21/fcc-commissio   
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