Posted on 09/28/2012 9:29:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
TruthTeam2012✔ @truthteam2012
FACT: Discounted phone services are provided through telecom companies, “the President has nothing to do with it.” OFA.BO/s2aYR9
27 Sep 12 Reply Retweet Favorite
It didn’t take long for the video of a screeching Mitt Romney protester (and 47-percenter poster star) in Ohio to go viral and for #ObamaPhone to trend on Twitter. The Obama campaign noticed it too, and you’d think they’d be quick to thank such a passionate supporter for her boots-on-the-ground help, but instead the campaign’s “Truth Team” has wasted no time disconnecting.
RB@RBPundit
It's interesting that Team Obama felt the need to "correct" the #ObamaPhone stuff. A confident campaign would have brushed it off.
27 Sep 12 Reply Retweet Favorite
But why? The woman said she’s voting Obama because the president gave her a free phone. Who’s to say he didn’t?
Obama’s Truth Team quickly tweeted out a link to FactCheck.org, which concludes that “Obama Phone” is a complete misnomer. FactCheck even manages to “blame Bush” for the program, noting that the SafeLink program, which provides free cell phones to qualifying applicants who receive food stamps, Medicaid or other federal benefits, “started under President George Bush.”
So, that free cell phone? Obama didn’t buy that. Mr. President, why don’t you want the poor to have cell phones?
TruthTeam2012✔ @truthteam2012 27 Sep 12
FACT: Discounted phone services are provided through telecom companies, “the President has nothing to do with it.” OFA.BO/s2aYR9
RB@RBPundit
So #ObamaPhone lady is a moron. And an Obama voter. RT @truthteam2012 FACT: Discounted phone services are provided through telecom companies
27 Sep 12 Reply Retweet Favorite
TruthTeam2012✔ @truthteam2012 27 Sep 12
FACT: Discounted phone services are provided through telecom companies, “the President has nothing to do with it.” OFA.BO/s2aYR9
S.M@redsteeze
Why is @truthteam2012 calling their own supporters liars?
27 Sep 12 Reply Retweet Favorite
TruthTeam2012✔ @truthteam2012 27 Sep 12
FACT: Discounted phone services are provided through telecom companies, “the President has nothing to do with it.” OFA.BO/s2aYR9
el SOOPer@SooperMexican
.@truthteam2012 why is Obama taking credit for what telecom companies do out of charity?!??! HE DIDN'T BUILD THAT! twitter.com/truthteam2012/…
27 Sep 12 Reply Retweet Favorite
Cuffé@CuffyMeh 27 Sep 12
#ObamaPhone RT @truthteam2012: FACT: Discounted phone services are provided through telecom companies, “President has nothing to do with it”
John Hayward@Doc_0
@CuffyMeh I love that the Obama "Truth Team" has to explain his supporters are morons for thinking he gave them free phones.
27 Sep 12 Reply Retweet Favorite
But … free stuff!
Sunny@sunnyright
The Obama campaign "Truth Team" is now forced to scold Obama supporters for thinking he's giving them free s**t. Awesome. #ObamaPhone
27 Sep 12 Reply Retweet Favorite
You may be right. But I think there should be SOMETHING there. My guess is they scrubbed the cached copies as well.
Quick! We need to get this vital information to the “Free Phone” lady and other recipients.
They need to be made aware the free phone is not from The Won.
I see that is says that they have no archived pages for that URL. I hope WaybackMachine doesn’t work for the darkside.
From the FCC's own website
-"Lifeline is a government benefit program"
Who Pays for the Lifeline Program?
All telecommunications service providers and certain other providers of telecommunications must contribute.... (PAY A TAX!!!!!)..... to the federal USF based on a percentage of their end-user telecommunications revenues. These companies include wireline telephone companies, wireless telephone companies, and certain Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers.
Some consumers may notice a “Universal Service” line item on their telephone bills. This line item appears when a company chooses to recover its USF contributions directly from its customers by billing them this charge. The FCC does not require this charge to be passed on to customers. ....(WE CHARGE A TAX TO THE PHONE COMPANY,IF THEY MAKE YOU PAY FOR IT-ITS NOT US TAXING YOU ITS THEM)... Each company makes a business decision about whether and how to assess charges to recover its Universal Service costs.
“the small print justified this false statement by the hand waving argument that the tax is paid by telecommunication companies and so is not a tax on people.”
You better look at your phone bill, every land line and cell bill has a tax that is used to pay for those phones.
Obamavoter says Romney will raise taxes on people with no money
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmdp3nr4mjQ&feature=relmfu
I said on another thread that this was extremely damaging to Obama; if Romney wins we owe this welfare sow a lot...
“Thanks to the FCC-mandated, government-sponsored program, called LifeLine Assistance, the financially disadvantaged can receive a free government cell phone and up to 250 free minutes every month.”
“An estimated 12.5 million other Americans already participate, and tens of millions more qualify to enroll. With the economy falling further and further behind, more and more Americans are finding themselves eligible for the Lifeline phone service program.”
http://www.freegovernmentcellphones.net/
Note, Free Lunch Program.
Heck, about 2/3rds of students are on that. Their families get a free phone?
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Who Qualifies for an Obama Phone?
Posted on December 2, 2011
If you, or members in your household are, receiving the following benefits you automatically qualify for the Lifeline program. Those interested in the program must have an income of less than 135% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines. (For example in the 48 Contiguous States and D.C the income level is $22,350 per year for a family of four.)
Food Stamps or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Medicaid
Supplemental Security Income – commonly known as SSI
Health Benefit Coverage under Child Health Insurance Plan (CHIP)
The National School Lunch Program’s Free Lunch Program.
Low-Income Energy Assistance Program – LIHEAP
Federal Public Housing Assistance ( Section 8 )
If you are a low-income Eligible Resident of Tribal Lands
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families – TANF
Isn't that the 'Al Gore Tax' he implemented without any congressional input?
yes!
Bflr
Stop, stop! You’re killing me!
Someone needs to get this to Drudge!
Someone needs to get this to Drudge!
That is a very professionally done web site. What they’ve got up now appears to be purposely typo/grammar-challenged, with a number of articles, such as ‘a’, missing from the text and with poor punctuation.
It even posts the entries as old blog posts.
One thing you can say about Axelrod’s team is that they are good at what they do.
For later.
The only job he's ever had his entire life was that of a taxi driver. Until he just moved to Texas to stay with a niece, he was living in a motel room where he payed $640 a month rent.
This guy could probably qualify for every govt. program out there but we could never get him to do it. He definitely has mental problems, likely from his head injury in vietnam. Jimmy is the guy these programs were designed for but it's the other scum who are taking advantage of them....
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