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FCC Warns Companies Not To Skip Income Check For "Obama Phones"
The Hill ^ | July 8,2013 | Julian Hattem

Posted on 07/08/2013 2:07:00 PM PDT by Biggirl

The Obama administration is urging companies to thoroughly check a person's eligibility before providing cellphone service that is subsidized by the government.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Society
KEYWORDS: fcc; obama; obamaphones

1 posted on 07/08/2013 2:07:00 PM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

Closing the barn door....

Government is stupid.


2 posted on 07/08/2013 2:09:23 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Liberalism. Ideas so great they have to be mandatory.-FReeper Osage Orange)
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To: Biggirl

Can you hear me now?

The relentless attacks on America and its core principles continues.


3 posted on 07/08/2013 2:10:09 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi --)
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To: Biggirl

A little over a year ago, as I was riding on the city bus, this black woman asked me if I was going to get one of these types of phones, since there was a gathering in some place (time and space forgotten now), gathering applications for these phones. she told me, all I needed was to be on SocSec, to be eligible!

I smiled back at here, and replied:
“Why, by all that’s righteous, would I want a phone from “you-know-who-with adjectives added”? The last thing -I- want, is to have “that adjectives added” listening in on MY phone calls, and don’t think that won’t happen!”

The nice woman got all ugly at me, but my bell-stop had arrived, and I gladly left the bus, waving at her as I left, with a smile.


4 posted on 07/08/2013 2:19:15 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Biggirl

5 posted on 07/08/2013 2:21:02 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (If youÂ’re happy and you know it clank your chains!)
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To: Biggirl

thoroughly check a person’s eligibility.......... yeah ok the same people who are telling these dopes how to go about selling them to get alcohol, money, designer bags and heroin. The people who are really stupid are the ones that believe this sh##


6 posted on 07/08/2013 2:23:00 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Yesterdays conspiracies are todays truths)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Post of the day!


7 posted on 07/08/2013 2:24:29 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: Biggirl

I was driving through downtown Reading, PA a few weeks ago around noon.

There was a truck parked with a big banner offering free mobile phones for those that qualify.

The line was astounding.


8 posted on 07/08/2013 2:24:55 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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To: Terry L Smith

And yet Liberals throw a screaming, artery-bursting shiite-fit if you even so much as maintain that there IS such a thing as the Obamaphone program.


9 posted on 07/08/2013 2:36:21 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Biggirl
Rules, schmoolze.

Bammy don't enforce or follow the law, why should anyone else?

10 posted on 07/08/2013 2:41:52 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Remember O’Keefe’s sting at Best Buy or wherever it was?

Told him he was going to sell the free phone for heroin, and the clerk was ‘hey, whatever you want to do, man’.


11 posted on 07/08/2013 2:46:24 PM PDT by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
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I live and work in the Bronx.(NY). When I go out during the day, I pass people in the streets, “Yelling out, get your free phones. Just show, Medicaid or EBT card and its yours. “If you have one of your own, get one for your son. If he don’t need one,you ought to get it for your daughter” (Note the rhymes) 3 or 4 people per street yelling this out. NO WAIT, right on the spot. Way too late on you FCC!!!


12 posted on 07/08/2013 2:53:00 PM PDT by MarineMom613 (RIP Sandra Sue, my fur baby 12/31/1999 ~ 7/2/2010 - See you on the other side!)
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To: Biggirl
I know someone who got one. He's on disability. I thought his case worker had to approve his eligibility.

It's really irritating. He gets a free phone with 250 minutes included. No fees, no taxes. I have a $10 a month plan, with no minutes...they're 25 cents per minute. Even when I don't use it, besides the $10 I have to pay government fees and taxes.

We're in never-never land, for sure.

13 posted on 07/08/2013 3:01:13 PM PDT by grania
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To: MarineMom613

Comes from the old English song for got cross buns.


14 posted on 07/08/2013 3:01:44 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Biggirl

Or what? Recover the funds?


15 posted on 07/08/2013 3:03:23 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Biggirl

Working and productive? No Obamaphone for YOU!


16 posted on 07/08/2013 3:11:10 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Biggirl

Yeah sure...they’ll get right on that!


17 posted on 07/08/2013 4:08:12 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Biggirl

Applicant: “You mean I get a phone AND a income check? That’s great!
...How big is the check?”


18 posted on 07/08/2013 4:11:26 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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