What broadband stimulus? : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

Hey America! We're spending billions of dollars on building bridges, repairing public housing, planting crops, and giving jobs to vets, and that's all good... but in the country's original stimulus package, $4.7 billion was devoted to something that really matters: Letting you read this blog post faster than ever before.

The broadband stimulus looks like a great idea on paper: Roll out high-speed internet to underserved parts of the country, and improve the speed that everyone has access to. And the government is willing to pay to make that happen. Sounds good in theory, right?...