The key word for our National Broadband Plan: Leverage

Given the fact that America's financial resources appear as though they'll never be turned full force towards tackling the broadband challenge, it's likely that our national broadband plan will have to be crafty with how it recommends allocating scarce resources to maximize the impact of the dollars we do have to spend. In other words, the plan must leverage whatever money is available as much as possible.

Unfortunately, to date our government hasn't been very good at leveraging taxpayer dollars to create long-term broadband assets that can be built upon and expanded on into the future...