othershoe1030 wrote: newswatcher wrote: othershoe1030 wrote: gulfbeachbandit wrote:If obama would just give these people free flat screen TV's to go with their obamaphones, there wouldn't be any need to riot.
Why do I have to think of everything?
Obamaphone is a misnomer. The program started long before he came into office but it makes wingnuts feel better to use the term. Anyone using the term is really as misinformed as the now famous ignorant woman screaming about how she's going to vote for Obama because he'll give her a free phone. That video clip went viral on emails and YouTube so I guess it must be true. It fits with the wingnut view of the world however distorted that may be.http://www.freegovernmentcellphones.net/faq/obama-phone
http://www.fcc.gov/lifeline
Need some cheese with that whine?....
No whine about it, just getting the facts out. Reality and all that.
Here is a little more info to add to your "reality and all that" stuff:
"While it’s true that President Obama didn’t launch the cell phone expansion of the Lifeline program, his policies have greatly increased the number of participants, since everyone in Food Stamp Nation qualifies for a free phone. The cost of the program has more than doubled, to $1.6 billion, since the cell phone benefit was added in 2008. It’s absolutely riddled with fraud and abuse, including individual recipients who scored multiple free telephones from the government. And it turns out that one of the biggest companies providing these welfare phones, TracFone Wireless, is run by big Obama donors.
The Washington Free Beacon reports that TracFone Wireless CEO F.J. Pollak “has donated at least $156,500 to Democratic candidates and committees this cycle, including at least $50,000 to the Obama campaign,” while his wife Abigail has bundled over $632,000 in Obama donations during this campaign cycle. They hosted a $40,000-per-plate fundraiser for Obama in Miami Beach this year, and they’ve made seven White House Visits. Abigail received an appointment to the presidential “Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of the American Latino.”
And TracFone is affiliated with company called America Movil, which is owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world. So a huge amount of money is being extracted from paying cell phone customers through a surcharge on their monthly phone bills, and paid to a company run by a top Obama donor and affiliated with the richest man on the planet, so welfare dependents can have “free” cell phones. Some of those dependents love their free phones so much that they run out and get ten or twenty of them.
Not only is TracFone getting big bucks from the government to provide these cell phones, but they have an opportunity to sell additional minutes to users who exceed the fairly modest allowance of “free” taxpayer-subsidized talk and data time. (Yes, data time. Some of these “free” phones are smartphones.)"
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