Homeless To Get Free Obama Phones And Service In California Paid For By 'YOU', The Working Taxpayer (employment, interview)

[Old Army Soldier]

This is unacceptable. This is fleecing the American working taxpayer and it is wrong. I just don't understand why these people can't work. The lady interviewed in the news report has ten children..........Ten!!

23ABC News - Program to give homeless & poor people may soon be getting free cell phones & service - Bakersfield News, Bakersfield, California News & Bakersfield News Local Headlines - KERO TurnTo23


Original Obamaphone Lady: Obama Voter Says Vote for Obama because he gives a free Phone - YouTube

[Frugality]

Bush administration enacted this program, these are Bush phones not Obama phones.

[HistorianDude]

1) There are no such things as "Obama Phones."

2) The program is not taxpayer funded.

[Dane_in_LA]

Oh - this thread again.

Fact: We pay considerably more to keep the yokels in fly-over country supplied with phone service than we do to keep low-income families connected.

[cometclear]

Originally Posted by Frugality

Bush administration enacted this program, these are Bush phones not Obama phones.

Actually, the program, which subsidizes phone companies to offer low-cost phones, began under Ronald Reagan.

If you want to have fun, tell that to your local right-wingers and watch their heads explode.

[pch1013]

Originally Posted by Old Army Soldier

Original Obamaphone Lady: Obama Voter Says Vote for Obama because he gives a free Phone - YouTube

Thanks, OAS! This is only the 121st thread in which "Obamaphones" have been mentioned. There was a serious risk that we might all forget about them!

[Wild Colonial Girl]

I just don't understand why these people can't work

Because without an address or a phone there's no way for an employer to contact them.

[HappyTexan]

and it expanded from a landline with local service to cellphones.
Next up is smart phones and broadband service.

Think your universal service charge covers that now ?
No, no it doesn't so it will go up.

There is already pilot programs going on with the smart phone/data plan FREE service to the poor.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by Wild Colonial Girl

Because without an address or a phone there's no way for an employer to contact them.

but regular phone service is not good enough anymore because most employment applications are online so they need broadband and data plans.

[stargazzer]

Ten words a minute is more then enough for a freebie.



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