Rich get richer supplying Obama phones to the poor!

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Carlos Slim, who has an estimated net worth of $70 billion, owns a controlling stake in TracFone, which makes $10 per phone for each device it provides to poor Americans. The company, whose president and CEO is Frederick “F.J.” Pollak, also makes money from extra minutes and data plans it sells to subscribers who get phones and service through the government's Lifeline program. The program, which began in the mid-1980s, has exploded in the past four years after being expanded from supplying landlines to the poor to providing cellular phones.

Griffin recently introduced a bill on Capitol Hill to end the Lifeline program, which cost $1.6 billion in 2011, up from $772 million in 2008. While not technically a tax, the program is funded by mandatory fees tacked on to consumers' phone bills, then disbursed through the Federal Communications Commission and states.

[pmull]

 

Giving people cell phones? Do we give them cable and internet service too? It pizzes me off to find out the few extras I can afford the poor floks get for free.

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Giving people cell phones? Do we give them cable and internet service too? It pizzes me off to find out the few extras I can afford the poor floks get for free.

Imagine getting slammed into on the way home, by some lady with no car insurance, yapping away on her Obamaphone.


 

[ricky023]

Aight ya'll. How do you really feel? rofl, do you think the poor shouldn't have the phones or what, lol? RTR!

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Giving people cell phones? Do we give them cable and internet service too? It pizzes me off to find out the few extras I can afford the poor floks get for free.

Imagine getting slammed into on the way home, by some lady with no car insurance, yapping away on her Obamaphone.


 

Just a way that Obama can buy votes. Give everyone without a job a free phone.

I may have posted this before on this board but here goes again. Welfare, free phones, maybe even basic cable (might as well throw in an X-Box) may be a good way to keep these people home and out of the way of the rest of us while we are trying to run an economy.  

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