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I want phones for the whole family...wife, son, parents. Nothing less than an iPhone or one of them high dollar Android phones will do. Need unlimited text and data too.
Nor is it paid for with "tax payer money," as the e-mail claims. Rather, it is funded through the Universal Service Fund, which is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company, an independent, not-for-profit corporation set up by the Federal Communications Commission. The USF is sustained by contributions from telecommunications companies
First of all, take a look at your latest cell phone bill. Mine has something called the "Fed Universal Service Charge.' Yours might not, but you're still paying for it. Where do you think that those "contributions from telecommunications companies" come from? They come from money paid by customers. So yes it is a tax. The FCC says that it is not a tax, but a 'mandatory contribution.'
Abe Lincoln once asked (paraphrase) 'how many legs does a dog have if we call the tail a leg?' And Abe answered his own question (paraphrase): 'Four. Calling the tail a leg doesn't make it one.'
Phones and service are pretty cheap these days. I signed up for a plan last year, costs $10 a month, they gave me a cell phone free. Its just for basic service but thats all I wanted anyway.
Phones and service are pretty cheap these days. I signed up for a plan last year, costs $10 a month, they gave me a cell phone free. Its just for basic service but thats all I wanted anyway.
Use those ten minutes a month wisely.
Just kidding, just kidding.
When I first heard about them here on P&OC, I really believed that they were only for black people who drove Escalades and were seen leaving Whole Foods with a shopping cart full of lobstertails they were going to feed their pet and a box of corndogs they were gonna feed their kids. I believe they were talking on an Obamaphone while they were pushing their cart.
Now I have one and I know that's not at all true. I'm still mostly white, still drive an old sedan and I've yet to qualify for food stamps or actually touch a lobstertail. All that other stuff that was supposed to come with the Obamaphone that the right wing told me was a lie, except for the corndogs. Trust me.
What is possibly even more interesting is that for every Universal Service Fund dollar spent on the Lifeline program, two are spent on providing phone service to rural areas. The agrarian types in America's Heartland have their hands deeper in our pockets than the urban poor, and ain't that just a kick in the teeth?
Sure, tell us Sun Valley, Idaho... Lake Tahoe, CA... Grand Targhee,Wyoming... Mammoth, CA...Park City, Colorado or Steamboat, Co is where all the "urban poor" hang out. Think you ought to rethink how much money goes to support the so called outdoor euthanist!
I'm joking. I don't qualify for a government phone.
Lol...good question.
You see...once upon a time...
I was joking back, we all knew you were kidding you're WAY ineligible.
I was expecting you to mention the "desert" part...and I was waiting to kid back with the observation that Detroit is a food desert.
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