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Thread dome a dozen times before, so just to recap: It's not an Obama policy, it's cheaper to hand out last year's handset with a limited speech plan than it is to run landlines, and the hillbillies in fly-over country get way more money from the Universal Service Fund than those with low income.
Thread dome a dozen times before, so just to recap: It's not an Obama policy, it's cheaper to hand out last year's handset with a limited speech plan than it is to run landlines, and the hillbillies in fly-over country get way more money from the Universal Service Fund than those with low income.
You may now resume whining.
Tax payers should not be providing any phones for people on welfare.
My son & I each have one! Both of us are disable The phones are NOT Smart phones just Used phones nobody wants any more! We get 120 free mins per month. Great for emergancies! Calling dr etc! We cant afford Any phones if not for these.
But it still hurts. A fair number of recipients like to have their "free" cell in addition to the one they pay for. It hurts my head to think about it too much.
Perhaps you should worry more about improving and advancing yourself and less about others. Welfare reform was done in the 90's. Other countries are kicking the US economically because people hung up on abortion, gay marriage and issues that were solved by the Freshman Class 20 years ago.
The current program is a growth of an older program started during the Reagan administration. Subsidized cell phone plans are an expansion of what is known as the Federal Universal Service Fund.
The Universal Service Fund was created during the Reagan years to provide universal telephone network access across the country via subsidized land line service ( yes, the govt. has been subsidizing land line service to the poor for decades. )
Landline phones are not wireless phones, and you know that. While I conceed it wasnt Obama who started the plan, it sure in hell wasnt Reagan either.
Thread dome a dozen times before, so just to recap: It's not an Obama policy, it's cheaper to hand out last year's handset with a limited speech plan than it is to run landlines, and the hillbillies in fly-over country get way more money from the Universal Service Fund than those with low income.
You may now resume whining.
And you seriously misrepresent the individuals who have these phones. For the most part, they are not farmers, and you know that. Most of them are city dwellers where landlines are already in existance.
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