Posted on 06/22/2012 12:49:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
Yes, their “free” phone is paid for by people who actually think it’s the right thing to do to pay for their phone service.
IE, the culture that thinks it’s normal to pay for what you use also pays for the culture that thinks it’s entitled to free stuff.
I have no idea. I just thought it was interesting that it started during the Bush years.
This is sickening.
I didn’t think my head could explode, but now I’m not so sure.
Does it matter so much who started it as it does who is taking credit for it and getting his name attached to it?
[ This program started during the Bush years according to a caller on Levin’s show the other day. ]
Were they called Obama phones then? That is an outrage.
I didn’t think my head could explode, but now I’m not so sure.
It sure is because they will not use it for the purpose it is given to them which is for emergency calls
"High ( a little Choom Gang reference their) this is Barack Obama, and I urge you to go vote on Wednesday November 7th:...."
I'm just sayin' .:-)...
Wish there was a way to hack into Obama’s Facebook and delete it. I am sure much of the people on there are from 2008 and wouldn’t re-join.
Q: Has the Obama administration started a program to use “taxpayer money” to give free cell phones to welfare recipients?
A: No. Low-income households have been eligible for discounted telephone service for more than a decade. But the program is funded by telecom companies, not by taxes, and the president has nothing to do with it.
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/the-obama-phone/
Let’s keep it real around here....
Actually, the fee that funds it was created during Clinton's presidency.
The Universal Service Fund (USF) was created by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1997 to meet Congressional universal service goals as mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The 1996 Act states that all providers of telecommunications services should contribute to federal universal service in some equitable and nondiscriminatory manner; there should be specific, predictable, and sufficient Federal and State mechanisms to preserve and advance universal service; all schools, classrooms, health care providers, and libraries should, generally, have access to advanced telecommunications services; and finally, that the Federal-State Joint Board and the FCC should determine those other principles that, consistent with the 1996 Act, are necessary to protect the public interest. As of the third quarter of 2012, the USF fee, which changes quarterly, equals 15.7 percent of a telecom company's interstate and end-user revenues. Recent quarterly USF fees can be found at http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/contribution-factor-quarterly-filings-universal-service-fund-usf-management-support. [1]Wikipedia linkOn October 27, 2011, the FCC approved a six-year transfer process that would transition money from the Universal Service Fund High-Cost Program to a new $4.5 billion a year Connect America Fund for broadband Internet expansion, effectively putting an end to the USF High-Cost Fund by 2018.[2][3]
No it is not. They have been around for eight years that I know of.
There was a previous program that provide cell phones to the poor but they only dialed 911. Maybe that is where all the stupid calls to 911 come from?
There are also several charities that offer free cell phones and minutes.
I strongly object to the phrase "Obama phone" and will be contacting my congress critter because this is government funds being used to campaign which is against the law.
This is not new. The phones and the minutes are free to anyone who qualifies for Food Stamps and/or Medicaid. That’s a lot of phones.
According to the Fact check link in post#15 by Freeper An American it started in 2008, the last year of President Bush’s Presidency
Clinton years. Don't blame Dubya. Blame Gore.
This does help a few, but only those who qualify.
I qualify.
But I don't have one.
Are they really this “All In”? Do they not realize that even if Obama wins re-election, ther ewill eventually be a Republican President who will have a pipeline to all Entitlement Voter Block?
Are they really this “All In”? Do they not realize that even if Obama wins re-election, ther ewill eventually be a Republican President who will have a pipeline to all Entitlement Voter Block?
Yea, all Statists to varying degrees. Both Bushes were Statists (ADA, Medicare Part-D, No Child Left Behind), their legacy proves that.
If only we had such men as Cleveland. Upon vetoing the Texas Seed Bill Cleveland wrote,
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution; and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.
How wonderful it would be if we elected Presidents and members of Congress that deeply revered the Constitution and the belief in severely limited government?
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