Rush Limbaugh Apr 29, 2021

Some of you will remember what happened in 2013, when Los Angeles educators decided to hand out tax payer funded iPad supposedly they help low income students.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Some of you will remember what happened in two thousand
thirteen when Los Angeles educators decided to hand out taxpayer
funded iPads supposedly to help low income students. The iPad
program cost over a billion dollars and guess what happened next.
Large numbers of iPads soon went missing or were reported stolen.
Teachers were never properly trained on how to use them,

(00:23):
many didn't see the need for them. Internet access in
the scrowls with spotty The iPad for Poor Kids program
ended up as a total disaster. Even the Los Angeles
Times called it ill conceived and half baked. Well, now
New York State is about to embark on a new program.
They're going to give free tablets to all of their

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inmates in prison. Supposedly, these tablets will not be able
to connect to the Internet all the time. There will
be controlled access so that prison inmates can email loved
ones to help them stay in touch, and they'll be
allowed to purchase e books, videos, and other entertainment. Anybody
with a brain can predict where this is going before

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it happens. You put this kind of technology in the
hands of criminals in prisons already overrun by gangs and
all sorts of deadly miscreants. It's not going to end well.
And we haven't even talked about pornography yet. But when
liberals fail at something, folks they never learned the lesson.
They double down, and they fail up and keep failing

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up until they get to the top of the failure
ladder m