FCC's National Broadband

A news brief in Computer World states that the FCC released their national broadband plan, about 360 pages long, which includes long term goals and dozens of specific recommendations earlier this week. The FCC views the plan as a living document, one that will change over time, FCC officials said Monday.
Many public safety officials and U.S. lawmakers have been calling for just such a nationwide mobile broadband network since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., during which one of the major problems was the inability to communicate among the multiple public safety agencies who responded to the crisis.
Most critics and supporters hope that some further fine tuning will improve the scope of the plan and clarify the real costs.
In our suffering economy, should we really be planning to spend over 16 billion dollars so that broadband connections can be improved / supplied to more Americans?
If the focus is public safety, my vote is yes. If the goal is to make sure each and every American can get their fix of social networking sites and watch t.v. on their computer, my vote would most certainly be no.