The problem is that Congress has no legal charter to pay people's personal Internet bills.

Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1. Shove that up your lying inbred-shit illiterate Klan Fuckwit Ass.

but if you can buy a loaf of bread and a jar of jam at a Walmart, you should be good for a week's worth of lunches without a fridge.

Lie more asshat. Where I live, an unrefrigerated loaf goes moldy in 2 days if not in a refrigerator.

Then it snowballs - why bother brown-bagging it, just go to McD's and save the hassle.

Real easy for someone to say "why don't they brown bag it" without asking if they EVEN HAVE ACCESS TO A WORKING REFRIGERATOR btw... just a thought...

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

-Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

Broadband is the modern equivalent of having a telephone line. It's a necessity for seeking employment, receiving communications, sending communications.

I've known a lot of poor people. The vast majority of them aren't poor because things cost so much, they're poor because they make poor choices.

I've known a lot of shitty fucking lying-ass crap silver spoon retards like you who never worked an honest day in their lives, and my advice to you is the same: shove it WAY up your inbred, entitled fucking ass. BEING POOR IS EXPENSIVE. Our society is LITTERED with traps designed to make it so that the poor can never "make better choices."