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Georgia Slaps $5 Fee on Free Cellphone Service for Poor (Obamaphones)
Wall Street Journal ^ | Oct. 16, 2013 7:44 p.m. ET | Gautham Nagesh

Posted on 10/17/2013 7:06:14 PM PDT by Pan_Yan

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To: The Antiyuppie

Yes, I’d like to see revocation of voter registration upon 3 consecutive years of being on government “assistance”.


41 posted on 10/18/2013 6:42:59 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Pan_Yan

Fraud and waste on a govt program. Hard to believe. :-)


42 posted on 10/18/2013 7:24:31 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Pan_Yan

States will almost always go after the providers and never the welfare recipient fraudsters, Go after both of them!


43 posted on 10/18/2013 7:38:52 AM PDT by TheCause ("that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States")
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To: Pan_Yan

The articles I have read lead me to the same conclusion. At $5 (which ain’t all that much), the end user will have some skin in the game


44 posted on 10/18/2013 2:16:12 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Pan_Yan
Under the new rule, participating carriers in Georgia must bill Lifeline consumers $5 every month starting Jan. 31, or provide them with 500 minutes of call time per month.

They'll go with the 500 minutes.


45 posted on 10/18/2013 2:25:19 PM PDT by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: Pan_Yan

our “leaders” are insane


46 posted on 10/18/2013 2:53:09 PM PDT by GeronL
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