Little love for government on broadband stimulus program

Enthusiasm for the federal government’s handling of the broadband stimulus plan so far is a little underwhelming, to say the least. Both the Department of Agriculture’s RUS program and the Department of Commerce’s NTIA are in need of some love, relative to the BTOP and BIP programs.

Heck, even the government itself is being critical of the stimulus program to date. Congress’ Agriculture Committee has expressed skepticism of the developing broadband stimulus roadmap. Is all of this criticism due to the current popular trend of ‘piling on the government’ as wasteful, inefficient, and even incompetent? Or something else?...