Yachts for everyone!

I was reading this article about how less than two-thirds of the population have access to high-speed internet at home.  The article starts out with a tale of a 42 year old web admin and mother of a teenage son who only has access to an excruciatingly slow dial up connection.  It details the story with little tidbits such as, "she does chores to pass the time while Web sites load" and her "high school-age son is so fed up with the glacial pace of their Internet connection that he asks his mom to update his Facebook page from the office."  Oh the humanity!

Clearly this needs needs a government solution.  Right?  Yes!  Of course it does!

Hence;

On Tuesday, the U.S. Federal Communications commission will unveil its much-awaited "broadband plan," which, among other things, will explain how the government plans to get nine out of 10 Americans online by 2020. That's no easy task, considering less than two-thirds of people in the country have high-speed Internet access at home today, according to a 5,005-person survey published by the FCC in February (PDF).

The Obama administration's 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has put $7.2 billion toward high-speed Internet expansion and has required the FCC to develop a broadband plan.

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Also, I'm actually quite upset.  I want a yacht.  Commenters on both sites say they too want yachts.  Surely, this is a much further pressing topic.  I would venture to say even less than half the nation owns their own yacht.  In fact, I would venture to say that less than one-tenth of the nation owns their own yacht.  Where is the "much awaited" yacht ownership plan?  Don't us poor Americans deserve such luxuries?