Posted on 03/17/2013 4:41:27 AM PDT by Libloather
After the Federal Communication Commission reported this week that 41 percent of those receiving free mobile phones don’t meet the requirements — some because they’re dead — the proponents of the so-called “Obama phone” program are firing back. But they still miss the point.
Ever since GOP Rep. Tim Griffin of Arkansas announced early this week that Lifeline, a free phone service for low-income families that costs taxpayers $2 billion a year, was rife with fraud, conservative lawmakers and pundits alike have jumped on the bandwagon to bash it.
The program’s supporters are now fighting back.
“Allow me to set the record straight,” said Mignon Clyburn, a Democratic member of the Federal Communications Commission according to The Hill. “Without this program, 15 million low-income families would literally be choosing between feeding their children or going without a dial tone that potentially could save their lives and put them on a better economic path.”
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Because some dirtbag POS socialist politicians and their perverted party has deemed it to be "fair".
She is the daughter of United States Representative Jim Clyburn.
Thus,no elections are necessary. No non-relatives of Jim Clyburn need apply. A new AA dynasty takes shape!
If the dead make call on their Obamaphone, do roaming charges apply?
Or worse, their cigarettes.
Yes, the General Election for President of the United States. Elections have consequences. Some elections have greater consequences than others.
Sure doesn’t look like much emergency safety net for nobamaphone users to be non-stop walking around Walmart on the phone just chatin “what yo doin gul? Ah nutin, just chillin in Walmarts”
If any common sense were at play in this nobamaphone thing, to give those 15 million “dialtone safety net”, why entitle them to 250 minutes a month? What about an Emergency Phone, that would only call 911 if the ComeYet actually had an emergency? The problem with an Emergency Phone is that some cell phone company big fat nobama supporter won’t be able to scam Billions of nobama’s stash.
why the hell should I have to pay for some leaches phone?
Because they vote DEM!
I’m a volunteer triage interviewer at a local food/clothing/utility help bank. Many of the folks I interview have obamaphones. The abuse is rampant. One woman bragged that she’d gotten a phone for each of her six kids. That’s SEVEN phones we’re paying for just one family. I could go on, but won’t.
The leach voted themselves some of your money. Isn't democracy great?
Are there elections for those spots?
No, they (political class) appoint cronies and relatives to the FCC.
I.E. Mignon Clyburn, who followed her father (Congressman James Clyburn) to a State of South Carolina lucrative state government position when her father was Human Affairs Commisioner, was appointed FCC Commisioner @ $170k per year. Colon Powell's son "served" as commisioner when he was in Bush administration. Appointments are political and are not based on merit. Stinks to high heaven.
:: Mignon Clyburn, a Democratic member of the Federal Communications Commission ::
Heh, heh, heh. Her momma named her have a slab of beef tenderloin!
They feed their children with food stamps that we also pay for. One has nothing to do with the other.
1) I guess the parents gambled successfully that a kid named Filet Mignon would eat well at the public trough.
2) Filet is too (willfully) dense to understand that when 41% of a welfare program’s resources are stolen, the intended beneficiaries lose. The cheats are stealing from “the hungry children”, not just those taxed to pay for the handouts. Apparently he has an interest in continuing the fraud.
3) Without free cell phones, how could the Obama Campaign/Organizing for America coordinate voter fraud and gin up fake support for deficit spending?
4) Please write your Congressional reps today, to ask what they will do to stop this entire corrupt, off-the-books, redistribution-of-income program.
1) I guess the parents gambled successfully that a kid named Filet Mignon would eat well at the public trough.
2) Filet is too (willfully) dense to understand that when 41% of a welfare program’s resources are stolen, the intended beneficiaries lose. The cheats are stealing from “the hungry children”, not just those taxed to pay for the handouts. Apparently he has an interest in continuing the fraud.
3) Without free cell phones, how could the Obama Campaign/Organizing for America coordinate voter fraud and gin up fake support for deficit spending?
4) Please write your Congressional reps today, to ask what they will do to stop this entire corrupt, off-the-books, redistribution-of-income program.
From 1901 until 1956 our families did without a phone. We made it ok.
Now it is an “essential” like air and TV?
“What the proponents are really arguing for is cell phone provider / carrier’s best interests not the recipients.”
Absolutely spot on. The real proponents of these plans are the cell phone providers. They get more customers and everyone else pays.
So, blame the cell phone providers. They lobbied congress to get this passed.
Think of them as parole tracking devices. Many a crime has been brought to justice because the Obama voter carried a cell phone.
Any cell phone with a charged battery will connect to 911!
Service does not have to be iniated!
Mignon means “cute”
It's amazing how we all survived when phones were tied to walls and we had to use other means to make a call when not next to the wall. I'd wager that more of them use the phones to call their drug dealer than to save their life or better their economic status (unless they deal drugs too...).
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