Nice way to reduce Government Spending - Online soap opera cleans up with stimulus broadband cash

Money flows fast and easy to the proper forms of diversity in with the color of single motherhood. It is just another great way for more of our borrowed fed. funds to 'stimulate' the economy.

Online soap opera cleans up with stimulus broadband cash - Washington Times

12-2-11 Jim McElhatton

Nearly $1M in federal funds for ‘Diary of a Single Mom’

You may not have seen the show “Diary of a Single Mom” co-starringBilly Dee Williams, but your tax dollars helped pay for it.

Through the federal economic stimulus program, a company owned by actor-director Robert Townsend was paid more than $230,000 to produce and direct the Web-based show, records show. Other production costs on the show paid to different vendors total more than $700,000.

The money came through an award by the Department of Commerce toOne Economy Corp. for more than $28 million last year to help boost broadband Internet service in underserved areas across the country.

One Economy is using more than $1.5 million of that money to create programming such as “Diary of a Single Mom,” which the group says will help provide an incentive for people to connect to the Internet.

But taxpayer watchdogs say the government doesn’t belong in show business.

“The point of broadband was to create access and create the infrastructure for communities that do not have access,” said Ryan Alexander, president of the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense. “Creating content wouldn’t be what people in Congress thought of when voting on this.”

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