iPods and Laptops to the "underserved"

That must be a typo for sure, is that what you are thinking? It would have read "undeserved" in a sane and sober world. But, unfortunately we are looking at a topsy-turvy America. It's a crying shame that half the taxpayers probably do not own iPods but their tax dollars will go towards giving these expensive gadgets like confetti to those who are on welfare. This is Obama's USA.

.......It could be coming some day to a neighborhood near you. Proponents tout it as a model that can be replicated in any of the 3,200 public housing authorities across the U.S. The supposedly innovative model program is designed to address the digital divide between public housing residents and the rest of the city. The Minneapolis proposal targets nearly 5,000 households in public housing high rises that are apparently unable to receive the city’s own public WiFi service. Residents who “graduate” from the first level (reportedly seven hours) of the city’s so-called Broadband University (BBU) “will be eligible to receive their choice of wifi-enabled devices—laptops or handheld iPod Touches,” according to the proposal’s executive summary. The plan estimates the number of trainees at 6,300 in what could be called the BBU Class of 2010. ......

taxpayers taken for a ride, a long bumpy one