Did you know that the federal government is giving out free cell phones and free cell phone minutes to welfare recipients? It may be hard to believe, but it is true. Right now, there are companies that are running advertisements specifically targeted at low income Americans informing them of the fact that all they have to do is sign up and they can get a free cell phone and hundreds of free cell phone minutes every single month and it will all be paid for by the federal government. Some have referred to this as "The Obama Phone", but that is not exactly accurate. The outrageous federal programs that are paying for this were initiated before Barack Obama entered the White House. But the fact that welfare recipients have been receiving free cell phones and free cell phone minutes under both the Bush and Obama administrations has been confirmed as being true by Snopes. All of this is paid for by "the federal Universal Service Fund". That is one of those annoying little taxes that you may have noticed on your phone bill. So what is essentially happening is the federal government is taking money from all of us so that they can provide free cell phone service for welfare recipients every single month.
When some of my readers informed me of this free cell phone scheme, I decided that I better go to the source. So I went over to the FCC website, and it turns out that there are two federal programs involved. "Link Up" provides a one-time connection discount on phone service, and it can be applied to the cost of a cell phone. So this is where the free cell phone comes from. "Lifeline" provides a monthly discount on telephone service. So this is where the free cell phone minutes each month come from. The following is a description of these programs from the FCC website....
What Benefits are Available Under the Lifeline and Link Up Programs?
- Lifeline provides discounts on one basic monthly telephone service (wireline or wireless) for qualified subscribers. These discounts can be up to $10.00 per month, depending on your state. Federal rules prohibit qualifying low-income consumers from receiving more than ONE Lifeline service at the same time. That is, qualifying low-income consumers may receive a Lifeline discount on either a home telephone or wireless telephone service, but may not receive a Lifeline discount on both services at the same time. Lifeline also includes Toll Limitation Service, which enables a telephone subscriber to limit the amount of long distance calls that can be made from a telephone.
- Link Up Up provides qualified subscribers with a one-time discount (up to a maximum of $30) off of the initial installation fee for one traditional, wireline telephone service at the primary residence or the activation fee for one wireless telephone. It also allows subscribers to pay the remaining amount they owe on a deferred schedule, interest-free. Federal rules prohibit qualifying low-income consumers from receiving more than ONE Link Up discount at a primary residence. That is, qualifying low-income consumers may receive a Link Up discount on installation or activation charges associated with either a home telephone or wireless telephone service.
Apparently these programs are becoming quite popular.
You can find a company called Safelink Wireless offering welfare recipients a free cell phone and 250 free cell phone minutes a month right here.
You can find a company called Assurance Wireless offering welfare recipients a program that is virtually identical right here.
This is absolutely outrageous, and it is yet another sign that dependence on the government is totally out of control.
Not that assisting the poor is bad. Of course we always want to help those that cannot help themselves. We never want to see anyone go without daily food or sleep in the streets.
But providing the poor with the basics of life is much different from providing them with luxuries such as cell phones.
In some areas of the country, the poor can also receive nearly free Internet service every single month.
Just check out the following example from the Houston Chronicle....
When Comcast acquired NBC Universal earlier this year, an FCC-mandated requirement was that the cable giant offer cheap Internet access to low-income households. Comcast is making good on the mandate through a new program called Internet Essentials.
Families who qualify will be able to sign up for 1.5-Mbps Internet access – the same download speed as AT&T’s basic DSL service – for just $9.95 a month. Customers may also be eligible for a computer that costs just $150 and free Internet training.
Also, a new bill has been introduced in Congress that would give "eligible" households money to help pay for gasoline....
Low-Income Gasoline Assistance Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to states to establish emergency assistance programs to pay eligible households for the purchase of gasoline.
These days, as long as you are "eligible", just about everything you need will either be purchased for you or subsidized by the federal government.
Yes, we will always need programs to help take care of the poor, but some of the things that go on today are absolutely outrageous.
There are millions of people out there that have become extremely comfortable receiving government benefits and it will be extremely difficult to ever get them to give them up.
After all, why bust your behind for 40 or 50 hours a week at some meaningless, low paying job when you can live a similar lifestyle by just depending on government benefits?
The following is a rap video that shows the kind of mindset that is developing all across America. Please be advised that it contains some very strong language. It was done by a rapper known as "Mr. EBT", and it is a perfect example of the kind of attitude that many welfare recipients have today....
Yes, everyone needs a helping hand once in a while. But if you do have to rely on government benefits for a time, you should be fighting like crazy to improve your situation so that you can get off of them as soon as possible.
Of course the biggest welfare recipients of all are the big corporations. The federal government showers billions upon billions of dollars on them every year, and this has got to stop.
The following example comes from an article in the Weekly Standard....
General Electric, one of the largest corporations in America, filed a whopping 57,000-page federal tax return earlier this year but didn't pay taxes on $14 billion in profits. The return, which was filed electronically, would have been 19 feet high if printed out and stacked.
Can you imagine a 57,000 page federal tax return?
That is absolutely disgusting and it is a perfect example of how corrupt our system has become.
All year long, GE has people pouring over the tax code just looking for any little tax loophole that it can exploit.
GE made $14,000,000,000 in profits, but they paid less taxes to the government than you or I did.
There is something very, very wrong with that picture.
All of this unnecessary welfare has got to stop.
No more free cell phones for people on welfare.
No more giving billions of dollars in tax breaks to big corporations.
We simply cannot afford it.
The U.S. debt problem is way, way out of control. We have piled up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world, and it gets about 150 million dollars worse every single hour.
Sadly, none of this is likely to change any time soon.
The big corporations provide the money that our politicians need to win campaigns, and most of our politicians are very careful not to bite the hands that feed them.
On the other end of the spectrum, our economy continues to crumble and the number of poor Americans continues to increase. So even if we don't provide them with free cell phones, the truth is that the number of Americans that need basic food and housing is not going to go down any time soon. In fact, it is going to go a lot higher in the years ahead.
We are rapidly becoming a European-style socialist welfare state.
In America today, the poor are absolutely showered with outrageous government benefits and so are the big corporations.
So who pays for all of this?
You and I do.
I am afraid that the joke is on us, and nothing is going to change as long as we keep sending the same kind of politicians back to Washington D.C. over and over.
A little off topic here, but I was watching CNBC early this morning and investor Jim Rogers made an interesting point. He stated that there are over 40 major political elections worldwide in 2012, the U.S. presidency being the most prominent, and said the U.S. among others will prop up the financial system to no end just to get through the elections. He said if the U.S. economy starts shrinking, that Bernanke would just start an endless run of “printing”. He was optimistic about the 2012 financial markets but very pessimistic about the consequences after the fall elections.
abusive boyfriends? seizures? grow a brain. i was forced into a low income area by the GOM oil spill. i now see these areas are nothing more than ‘Fedghettos’. every other teen is pregnant, everyone is using food stamp ‘credit cards’[and selling them] free phones are just another ‘perk’. the only “whites” i see are the girls with black babies. 90% of those who get free ****** are black and have no desire to anything but hang out and party. but it don’t matter because if you take an intelligent thoughtful look at the progression of the U.S., most of us will be dead by 2020….
No one is forcing you to live in “the ghetto.” If you dont like your living situation, go to school and get yourself a job.
No one is forcing you to live in a ghetto. Stop complaining and get a job!
Wakey! Wakey!
Tony Lamb
January 29th, 2012 at 4:17 pm · Reply
“Every one on disability and SSI just got a 3% pay raise and now we can get a free cell phone too. Wow such a deal. How and Why do they do this when the U.S. Government’s money is so tight? Seems like they are on purpose trying to drive us into default.”
Oh yes Tony; no doubt giving people who are on Disability 3% is going to drive us under. Of course spending Billions on wars to support the Military Industrial Complex isn’t harmful at all. I would much rather give my money to Warmongering generals and CEOs tha to a man who is unable to work but has probably worked all his life and paid into the system just like you did. God knows the big Corporate Excecutives and shareholders need that money much more. And really Tony; they are better people than those sad, unemployable wretches who do little more than clutter up our gutters; breathing valuable air that could be saved for those of better breeding and character; such as yourself probably.
Prepared Pastor
January 29th, 2012 at 4:28 pm · Reply
“I saw advertisements for the free cell phone service on television last year. I have said this before, but it is worth repeating that the reason we have so many poor is that the poverty level in America is four times the AVERAGE income in Mexico.”
No doubt you are correct Sir. Why didn’t I think of this before? we simply redefine Poverty. We say that a person who is barely keeeping body and soul together isn’t poor; they’re just living out their version of the “American Dream”
Then we provide assistance for those who aren’t keeping body and soul together; but only if they can show a permanent address. (This is neccesary to receive assistance). Since most people at this Low Level are not able to do so; they will expire and we can say we have no poverty problem in America.
Just happy, carefree drones living out their gray, ash coated existence in the futile hope of being allowed into your exclusive club of those who have thieved and lied and backstabbed their way to a position of financial stability.
Great idea Pastor. No doubt this is what jesus actually had in mind when he used the words, “Suffer the little children”. How perceptive of you.
“A democracy can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority, he said, always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collpases over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship. – Alexander Fraser Tytler”
This is a truly beatiful delusion you have quoted here. At what point in the past 52 years do you believe the people voted themselves all of these luxurious benefits you claim they receive?
Of those 52 years; 32 were under Conservative / Republican administrations. Only 20 of those years were under “Liberal” / Democratic administrations.
I suppose you would like us to believe that the Republican Party was so helpless that they were unable to stop this horrific waste of our tax dollars. Helping the poor indeed.
They don’t seem to have had much difficulty bringing the legislative proccess to a screeching halt and miring it in a fetid swamp of Elitist Corporate a_ _- kissing.
I think if they really wanted to they could have done more to deny the poor and all those bothersome people who payed into Social Security all these years assuming they would be paid a pension when they retired. or who paid into Social security all these years with the understanding that if they were disabled and no longer able to work; they would receive a pension.
But Pastor; I think I have an idea for you. You’re going to like this one.
The average lifespan in America is
List of countries by life expectancy
From Wikipedia
List by the United Nations (2005-2010)
United States overall 78.3 male 75.6 female 80.8
If we just continue and accelerate our current practice we can reduce our Social security expenditure to nearly zero.
Remember when people could retire at 65 with a full pension?
Now you have to work until 67. 5 years old to receive that same benefit.
If we just increase the retirement age to 81 years old; we can seriously reduce the number of people who will receive Social Security. Can’t collect if your dead.
igotadose
January 29th, 2012 at 4:56 pm · Reply
“Michael, you seem to be having difficulty lately. I’d expect this kind of anti-gummint screed on a nutbar website like Faux news. Where’s the cogent economic analysis and tea-leaf-reading that made this site stand out versus so many others? Hopefully you can turn it around and begin posting thought-provoking articles again.”
I agree this article is trite; but it does go to prove that Conservatives such as Michael; have reached a state of fear and confusion that leaves them unable to tell the difference between valid assistance and wasteful spending. As I say; if you want to cut out the Government’s wasteful spending; try looking to the Military; the “Foriegn Aid” i.e. arming and defending those nations who can most help us with resourses and intelligence co-operation and bribing nations such as Jordan not to attack Israel. Or perhaps we could take a look at the lavishly generous pensions and lifetime healthcare our Senators and Representatives get. Or perhaps we could address the problem of waste by applying all of this Corporate Business Savy to making the Government run efficiently; with less waste rather than supporting the starvation; exposure; degradation of those who are not able to care for themselves. Why don’t we see retired CEOs volunteering their time to help with such a task? Why do Conservatives aka the wealthy always blame to poor for their bad business decisions? The people with the money and power should be the ones most interested in this.
Rather than attempt to change to Predatory Military habits of our country or deny billions of dollars in military assistance to nations who might help us in our wars; they chose to deny a decent life with dignity to our own people in need.
callmecordelia1
January 29th, 2012 at 5:01 pm · Reply
“I have a close friend who was on social security disability for mental issues. He and his family were on every government program imaginable for about a decade. He was finally able to get help with his mental issues, and realized that he needed to get to work if he was ever going to break the cycle for his children. It was such a leap for him because he knew that going to work would mean that they would actually have a WORSE standard of living than they had living off the government. It was very hard for him to say “Yes, I’m going to work 40+ hours a week to have less money than before”. There are millions of people in the same boat that he was in, and it’s going to get ugly if all of those programs are yanked away. My friend did it by choice and it was extremely difficult. I can’t even imagine the response when it all disappears without their “consent”.”
Well call me Angryman because that’s what people like yourself make me.
Your inspirational story about your friend was so touching. I darn near got out my American Flag and saluted it while singing the Star Spangled Banner. (Now tell me there was no Corporate influence in choosing that “Dog” as our National Anthem. I mean; somebody must have gotten a real good massage 2ith a happy ending to get that approved. Uugh!)
I am happy to hear that your friend was one of the lucky people whose disability was temporary. Unfortunately; most Disability recipients are not so fortunate.
{According to the Social Security Administration (SSA), a person qualifies for SSDI if:
they have a physical or mental condition that prevents them from engaging in any “substantial gainful activity” (“SGA”), and
the condition is expected to last at least 12 months or result in death, and
Medical evidence is signs, symptoms and laboratory findings and is required to document the claim. Symptoms, such as pain, are considered but must be reasonably expected to come from a medically determinable impairment which the claimant is diagnosed to have. The decision is based on a sequential evaluation of medical evidence. The sequence for adults is: 1. Is the claimant performing a Substantial Gainful Activity? If yes, deny. If no, continue to next sequence. 2. Is the claimant’s impairment severe? If no, deny. If yes, continue to next sequence. 3. Does the impairment meet or equal the severity of impairments in the Listing of Impairments? .[3] If yes, allow the claim. If no, continue to next sequence. 4. Is the claimant able to perform past work? If yes, deny. If no continue to next sequence. 5. Is the claimant able to perform any work in the economy? If yes, deny. If no allow the claim.
Medical evidence that demonstrates the applicant’s inability to work is required. The DDS or ALJ may also require the applicant to visit a third-party physician for medical documentation, often to supplement the evidence treating sources do not supply. The applicant may meet a SSA medical listing for their condition. If their condition does not meet the requirements of a listing, their residual functional capacity is considered, along with their age, past relevant work, and education, in determining their ability to perform either their past work, or other work generally available in the national economy.}
The waiting time for a decision is estimated to be about 2 years if you are approved byt he Third appeal before an Administrative Law Judge. If you must proceed to the Appeals Council you can expect to wait another year.
During this time; you are left to live on whatever savings; LTD insurance etc that you might have. If you don’t have those things; you are at the mercy of God and the streets because working for 40 years and paying into the SS system means you will wait and wait and wait for the benefits you are owed. Some people die waiting and some just become so ill that they aren’t a longterm drain on your precious dollars.
“Consent”? You arrogant prig. It is those people whose consent should be sought.It is those people whose backs you climbed on to reach whatever exalted position of power and authority you hold. Or are you just one of those wannabee conservatives; dreaming of having real money and satisfied to sit at the feet of the 1% and greedily consume whatever unwanted scraps they serve you?
DaytoDay
January 29th, 2012 at 5:05 pm · Reply
“Interesting article Michael.
Although, I’m not sure I agree…
I mean, in today’s society, you HAVE to have a phone to get a job (Contact Information)… And a cell phone can be an invaluable tool, in a life or death situation.”
Bravo; the voice of reason. You are correct sir. If the Conservatives were not so busy guarding their hoarded wealth; they would see that helping people who can work is a good thing.
Oh wait! I think I get it.
Rule #1: Deny help to those who are not able to work……………
Rule #2: then to those who are able to work…………………………….
Rule #3: and when living in poverty turns them into someone who is not able to work; refer to Rule #1.
How neat and tidy. Is this new? Or is it yet another page out of Genocide 101: How to enslave and exterminate the poor and those most in danger of becoming poor i.e. the middle class?
Michael
January 29th, 2012 at 6:56 pm · Reply
“There are millions of working class families out there today that are working as hard as they can and yet they cannot afford even one cell phone.”
And that should never have been allowed to happen here. Period.
mark
January 29th, 2012 at 5:13 pm · Reply
“It is things like this that should prove even to Gary that the Federal Government wastes our money. Why raise taxes to waste more of it?”
Our Government does waste money. I don’t think this is an example though.
War- now there is a waste of money and life.
Military Aid to nationslike Israel and Egypt.
Payoffs to Jordan
“Humanitarian Aid” i.e. Military aid to nations we don’t want anyone to know we are arming.
Military and other support for whatever Third world Petty Dictator who is willing to let us rape his country while his people starve and we do the dirty work.
Those are wasteful things.
Constantly passing laws to benefit Corporations and undermine the ability of the average American to live with dignity
That is a criminbal thing.
republicae
January 29th, 2012 at 6:13 pm · Reply
Hey, what’s the problem? I mean last year there were people receiving Social Security Disability who were signing up for online classes, “buying”, laptops, mostly from “rent-to-own” stores, for the purpose of receiving $5,000.00 checks. The question is, what would a disabled person need with a “better” education? The trick, of course, was to simply sign up, enter the classes and never actually finish the courses, but definitely keep our tax-payer provided “grants”.
It goes without saying that many of the people I meet who receive Social Security Disability are far from disabled and usually have a “business on-the-side”.
I love it. You people lie; cheat and backstab. You deceive and committ crimes and evict helpless people from their homes. You use whatever clever financial and legal maneuveurs you can conceieve of. You cause death; sickness; destruction; and misery; all to get your nasty little hands on a few more dollars to drool over; and you have the huge marbles to come out and say you resent a person trying to exist on the 1000 or so dollars a month he gets from disability having a side income to make it a little easier.
I get it though. you don’t mind screwing anyone and everyone to get more money for you to add to your already ample hoard; but you actually shudder and wretch at the thought that someone else might figue a way to stay alive by using a few of those almighty dollars you worship.
Yeah. I get it.
Golden Child
January 29th, 2012 at 6:43 pm · Reply
Poor people have become dependent on welfare because there are no jobs…………………..
………………..The bottom line of a global economy is a setting an equal worldwide standard living for the majority of American people that is equal to the sad abject squalor which is common in the poorest places in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Thank You. As I was saying to these Corporate Drones and Fascist Capitalists. Just that,
And you pay more for the foods and then the money goes to
food stamp. Is clear we ll paid for it.
A friend sent me this. Its so true:
I’ve often wondered how Christianists and the Tea Party crowd can cling to beliefs that defy logic and scientific fact. Now, we may have the answer: they’re simply stupid. I mean literally dumb from an intelligence perspective.
A new study done by researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock
University in Ontario, Canada, finds that those with low intelligence gravitate towards conservatism (this is so true)
and are prone to embrace prejudice of things they don’t understand or that are different. I can already
hear Tony Perkins and the anti-gay professional Christian set howling and bellowing that Hodson’s
work is biased or slanted. When you think of about, however, the correlation tracks with a great deal
of everyday experience in dealing with people. If you can’t think for yourself, you’re an easy target for
demagogues who like to blame problems and failings on “the other.” Here are some highlights from
Yahoo News on the study findings:
There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be
dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
Yes friends this proves conservatives are low information dolts!
You don’t like Republicans, we get it. You’re a Liberal and smarter.. good for you. We’re talking about FREE CELL phones. FOCUS!
JUst wondered Gary2, if the conservatives are so dumb, how come it is all you smart liberals who are doing the welfare blowjob and sucking every free thing you can lay your hands on from the working republicans ?
“We are rapidly becoming a European-style socialist welfare state”.
I only wish this were true. I am doing my best to make this a reality.
The poor are showered with benefits-please Michael our saftey net is a joke compared to the rest of the civilized world. Showered as a choice of words sounds like a Newt talking point. Next you will start saying festering or rot. You conservatives are so easy to see through.
Hey, Gary, Why don’t you go start working the phone banks for Obama instead of filling this site with your ignorant left-wing crap. You sound (and probably look like) Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Gary2, you are the perfect Liberal!
Nonetheless, there is reason to believe that strict right-wing ideology might appeal to those
who have trouble grasping the complexity of the world. “Socially conservative ideologies tend
to offer structure and order,” Hodson said, explaining why these beliefs might draw those with low
intelligence. “Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice.
Oh yeah the conservatives are dumber than a rock.
Gary2 is soooo tolerant.
Sad if he learns the truth on Judgement Day.
I agree with part of what you claim, Gary. Social conservatives are usually more challenged by technology and complex ideas. Therefore, they gravitate toward simplistic solutions like:
“Gays are all perverts” “everyone on welfare is lazy” or “the world is flat, not round”.
Not all conservatives are simple-minded, obviously. I know many who are educated and quite brilliant.
But there is a huge block of ignorant, backward, non-technical, close-minded conservatives that elect the very same type of idiots (think of Louie Ghomert in Texas) that think like they do.
So?
Tax GE!
“This rapper is” indicative of the “welfare mindset”….you racist s.o.b. It’s not often that I feel hatred for white people, considering I’m close to quite a few of them, but you make it very hard not to. You people never quit. Hate is like an addiction to you. You may not be aware, but your days as the ruling power on earth are numbered. Your kingdoms are crumbling, your sun setting. Speaking of the sun, it is about to become your worst nightmare, because you are melanin deficient. The reason for damn insanity. You will have no resistance to the coming solar waves. Your genes are mutated. Your sperm drying up. Your “race” dying out. And all you can do is take shots at the very people whose destinies you destroyed because of your greed and rapine. God help your sick behinds. Karma is on your doorstep and you’re too twisted to see it. You will be lucky to survive this decade. Poor people on welfare are the least of your worries. Where the hell did you come from? Never mind, the answer’s in the question. Peace!
Did this article hit a nerve?
I got to believe that someone named Melanika talking about melanin turning into melanomas must know what she’s talking about.
That was humor, not hate. I’m 50% Cherokee Indian that looks and acts like a white guy but it’s hard for me to get sunburned – what will become of me?
Don’t just stand there looking stupid, we got some track to lay!
Hey, you’re right. Our days are numbered because we don’t reproduce like rabbits.
I don’t give a damn if you don’t publish this post. It is so like you to give out what you can’t take back…the truth! You can’t change it by ignoring it either. Sooner or later, it catches up to you. Keep watching. Peace out.
and yet another right wing racist-no surprise here:
Ron Paul’s former secretary, who supports his candidacy for President, admits Ron Paul knew all about those racist newsletters.
Ron (***************) Paul is nuttier than a squirrel turd. HE WILL NEVER BE ELECTED. GET OVER IT!
Only 8-9% of the population are libertarians (*************************)
But that number is growing….and you can’t tell by voter registrations….
Why is Ron Paul nutty? You’re not in favor of gay marraige? You like policing the world? Are you into war? I thought liberals are suppose to be the “good guys?” Yet, you’re voting for candidates who illegally bomb countries and start wars. That’s not too nice. If you’re not familiar with all the innocent civilians murdered by us overseas… you should look it up. Based on your previous posts, I’m guessing you won’t. You seem to make judgements based on feelings and not logic. There’s no difference between Republicans and Democrats. The system is fixed and they cater to weak minded individuals who don’t think for themselves. People like you.
I would like to tell you a story of so called
“Welfare Recipients” This is a true story some years back here in Mn there used to be what they called “the chicago line” people would come to mn
from chicago and claim they were mn residents and get welfare because mn was at the time and probaly still is one of the easiest states to get welfare,
anyway this was possible because they also have the laziest social workers around these people don’t even bother to check up on these people so this is why this scam was able to be implemented only until
word got out on a local radio station and a lot of people got pissed off did the state workers get off there dead asses and start to do there job and the so called “chicago line” was shut down.And I Agree
100% with michael with the dependance on government programs i have personally stood behind individuals
at the grocery store and watch them pay for there
purchase with the white card with the red stripe
also known as the welfare card than watch them wheel
there shopping carts out to there brand new car/suv
and than unload there top quality items into it and
no generic or low cost money saving items I Mean the best! So why would anybody want to get a job when you can live a nice lifestyle at the expense of hardworking taxpayers as for the free phones and internet all there doing is filling a void in these peoples lives and what is a better way to buy votes?
And another reason alot of people cannot get a job from a temp agency is because of the so called “tax
credit” they receive when they send a immigrant/
minority to work and it does not matter if they stay or not they get the credit either way and they
use and abuse this system very well.And it does not matter if people agree or disagree the system is totally f@@@ed up and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.
I remember. It drove governer Ventura nuts.
Well, the guy on here who admitted that he was deaf but still received a free cell phone from Uncle Sam … that tells the whole story.
I’m paying for a shell phone for a deaf guy !!
Lord help us. When will this madness end ???
Economic Collapse is very welcome around my home. This crap has got to stop somewhere, somehow.
Have you ever tried getting a job without a phone, or internet service? (In the last few years, that is.)
In my book, cell phones and low-cost internet service are a much better use of our money than subsidies to oil companies, or tax breaks for the wealthy & large corporations.
You do have a point there. I guess you cant get a job or go to school without the internet.
Actually, having regular internet access is very helpful for anyone looking for a job or for money-making opportunities generally.
Specifically, I have found Craigslist at least 10 times more useful than newspaper ads and government job offices in providing unskilled job leads.
Craigslist is also very useful for finding (mostly short-term) “gigs” to earn extra money. Gigs on Craigslist tend to be filled and deleted quickly, so anyone relying on a public library for internet access is at a big disadvantage.
OK did you think who benefits the most from the free food and cell phones, WALL ST…. think it over for a nanosecond. Yes the poor get food and phone service…. but the money goes to the folks at the top of the pyramid. It is a excellent way to reward the campaign contributions a win win…. plus it pisses off the other side… thus forcing the politicians to spend more money on their run for office.. Good Lord it is about the best scam ever created. who owns trac phone…. the provider of the free cell phones…
Please don’t let that dollar fly over your back while your bending over to pick up a quarter! 2 Billion dollars unaccounted for in Iraq. Wheres your outrage on that, also 2.3 Trillion unaccounted dollars at the Pentagon as reported by Donald Rumsfeld on 9/10/2001. Wheres your outrage on that one.
Now the shocking truth, there are some of us too damn poor to get into the surveillance party at the NSA, so there can be no better way than our corrupt Government to spy on these people, than to supply them with the necessary tools. Are you beginning to understand? You pay for your spy tool, that should outrage you!
Ron Paul for President 2012!
Abuse of the taxpayer by accepting a cell phone is “chewing gum in class” compared to the $10 trillion we know about, or more like $20 trillion or more we’ll never know about, that the banksters printed up and gave to themselves.
The money they lost gambling didn’t just disappear. Now there is $10 or $20 trillion more out there that you will eventually have to earn through your labor to pay for through inflation. The 10 or 20 is only the beginning.
Pick up a dime and step on a dollar because facing the truth would dictate a completely different set of actions on the part of the American People.
We’re a lot more clueless than the frogs in the boiling pot of water. Money worshiping thieves (the fed and their subordinates), and warmongering killers (the fed and their subordinates) rule the U.S. unconstitutionally!
There are no other economic topics to talk about.
Nothing matters until we end the fed, and return to the rule of law. There are violent thieves inside our homes and we’re trying to prepare our lunch at the same time they’re hauling our stuff out the front door. The last thing they will do before they leave will be to eat it.
OBVIOUSLY!!!
No rule of law is like playing a basketball team that does not have to obey the traveling and double dribble rule. Playing or even considering (what we do here) playing that team is moronic.
Talking about corporate welfare does not sell too well with the conservative bunch. They only care about bashing the poor and talking about all the wonderful things the government “Showers” on them. (michaels misleading term). They worship the rich and do not dare to consider the welfare the government really showers on the rich and corporations.
This is why I say conservatives are low information, easliy led, and manipulated.
Those people are not conservative.
They would have to be conserving something other than themselves to be considered conservative.
Liberals conserve themselves at the expense of others also.
There is no difference between them when these “takers” form political parties (gangs) to take from others their private property, labor, and freedom. You can’t see that as fact, along with a lot of other “conservative” commenters.
Breeding welfare rats….what a noble occupation America has available for the asking.
I’ll just cut to the subject: how many people
on this website know that space and time are
one and the same thing? It’s called ‘spacetime’.
If you try to speed up time, space must change
in some way. If you try to move faster in space,
time slows down.
Why do I ask? Last night, I made an analogy
about how my day was to my wife, using the
concept of spacetime. My wife, who has the
IQ of a houseplant and knows absolutely nothing
about quantum physics, said I sounded like a
NUT!
It boils down to this: Intelligent people
look like idiots ‘to idiots’. People who
don’t even know what a constellation is
or how fast the earth moves around the sun,
think that they know everything and that they
are so smart!
Fact is, SMART people are very aware of race
and religion. What they know, well, it will
never matter to 95% of the people posting on
this board, because 95% of these people would
rather spout some bull********* that they heard
growing up rather than actually google it and
learn the truth! What a shame, with the
internet so available. Whoops! I gotta let
you go now, don’t want you to miss survivor!
You hit the nail on the head with your analogy. I guess when the country finally crumbles and its down to the wire (survival speaking) these ‘smart’ people who see intelligent people as ‘idiots’, will find out just how smart they are, won’t they? Wonder how many welfare recipients even know how to grow their own food, sanitize water, create any kind of self-reliance? I guess then the world will see the idiot vs intelligent for sure. Time will tell.
Sadly I have been seeing more and more of these blatantly racist articles on sites and it makes me sick. You idiots have no idea how much you are being played. Ever hear of “divide and conquer”? You worried about a freaking cell phone?! Lets play blame the victim shall we! it must be great to get a shit handout and free cell phone after decades of cultural genocide, oh the joy! lets not forget slavery and the war on drugs, that has nothing to do with destroying communities and families and making people ignorant and self sufficient on the government does it? read a book and get a life. you want to fight for your freedoms while excluding others, this is why things will NEVER change. we are always pointing the finger at someone else instead of ourselves. keep chasing your tails. same as it ever was…
It has nothing to do with race, but everything to do about attitude!
It’s not just welfare. Any person who qualifies for any program, even heating assistance, can qualify for this handout which is paid for by everyone who doesn’t use these handouts.
They don’t call it the land of the free for nothing.
I am a Christian, I vote conservative, and I recieve gov’t benefits. I am on disability and food stamps (EBT)and Medicare and Medicaid. I have Crohn’s disease, am in the hospital 6-10 times a yr, have had 5 surgeries and do not respond to treatment. Am currently hooked up to an I.V. 12 hrs a day everyday. I used to work in the medical field and have assisted in many surgeries. I am smart, I am a prepper, I know how to grow food, sanitize water, treat medical emergencies and am learning to shoot a gun. If I could afford it, I would not live in the city. I know what’s coming. I AM NOT LAZY !!! And you CANNOT generalize when talking about ANY group, rich, poor, disabled, on welfare, color, race, or political stance. And by the way, I am getting a gov’t subsidized cell phone b/c I only get $720 a month to live on. Stop the arguments and learn the real reasons this country is failing. Brush up on your history and some basic economics and what’s happening to our civil liberties and the
Constitution (what’s left of it). I also know people who take advantage of the system, there will always be people like that, but I am not one of them. There are people that honestly need help. Please count yourself blessed if you are not one of them. don’t look down on us. Believe me, I feel bad enough. I am not “showered” with things. I would love to have my health back and work again. I lost my job, my house, car, my pets, even some friends through my illness. It sucks…BIGTIME