http://www.maximumpc.com/comcast_offers_low_income_families_six_months_free_internet_service_will_forgive_old_debts_2014
 
They are trying hard to get on peoples good side.

Interesting if true but what really qualifies as low income?

bcavnaugh

rjohnson11
Interesting if true but what really qualifies as low income?

I would add that if a low income family has as Cell Phone or two then they should not qualify.
You could also add Cigarette Smokers to this list, Smokers should not qualify.

Get off your high horse. We all have our vices and our needs.

Cut everyone price by 30% double everyone internet, not those with Google fiber in there city... Then maybe! people wont turn the cheek.

bcavnaugh

Holo

bcavnaugh

rjohnson11
Interesting if true but what really qualifies as low income?

I would add that if a low income family has as Cell Phone or two then they should not qualify.
You could also add Cigarette Smokers to this list, Smokers should not qualify.

Get off your high horse. We all have our vices and our needs.

I did almost 6 years ago and now I have an extra $130+ in my pocket a month from not smoking.
I was a 2-2.5 pack a day smoker for over 30 years.

I have no problem with helping someone out who truly needs help.  I have needed help in the past myself. I do however have a BIG problem with people who expect someone else to give them stuff or money or pay for things for them that comes out of my pocket while they waste whatever money they get using drugs, tobacco or alcohol or other unnecessary things. I say unnecessary because you don't need any of those things to live like you do food and water. They are CHOICES. 
 
I also am a former smoker  and I am a recovering alcoholic and cocaine addict with over 14 years of sobriety.  I feel that if I can quit, anyone can. If you want my money for food or rent, then you need to do your part and stop wasting money drinking, smoking or doing drugs.  When it comes down to a choice between smoking or eating, then hopefully, someone will make the right choice.
 
While It seems like a great thing that Comcast is doing on the surface, that money has to come from somewhere.  Those services are not free.  They cost something to produce and maintain.  So the only way Comcast can afford to do this is to take the money from people who actually pay their bills and give it to the people who don't.  This will mean that the people who are doing the right thing and pay their bills, will never get a rate reduction, most likely, their rates will go up to maintain all of the people who now decide that it is OK not to pay their bill since Comcast will let them slide.  I fear that this will set a dangerous precedent.
 
Again, please don't get me wrong.  I understand that some people have had truly difficult challenges such as losing a good job through no fault of their own or having a family member die.  My comments are not directed at them. They are directed at what I will call, the professional freeloaders  in our society that somehow have convinced themselves and others, that they are entitled to the fruits of someone else's hard work just because someone else has something and they don't and somehow this just isn't fair.  Too bad. 
 
If anyone hasn't figured it out yet, life isn't fair.  You usually do get what you put into it though. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it and you cannot legislate poor people into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.  The Government cannot give anything to anybody anything that the government does not first TAKE from someone else.  This goes for companies as well. This will all have to be paid for by the majority of people who actually pay their bills.