2.2 billion dollars on Obama phones.

[LigersRCool]

Small tax on your phone bill is giving 2.2 billion worth of "free" phones to people. I understand needing a phone for an emergency and reason it was created, but seriously this is crazy. I might lose a job do to government spending in the defense industry but people can get multiple free phones. Government spending sickens me :( I shouldn't be surprised but I constantly am.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/22/lawmakers-warn-cost-federal-free-phone-program-spinning-out-control/

[Dingo]

Obama phones....

Ain't nobody got time fo that!!

[Dingo]

Ro-eKHOgV6A

[clublights]

Typical of any government program.

Just this one has a democrat noticing it and making noise. for once.

[Dave_L]

I've debated this with a liberal friend and he was ok with it. "A small fee is no big deal to us so I'm all for it if it helps someone else out."

[LigersRCool]

Ro-eKHOgV6A
That gave me a little bit of a smile :P

[Chad4000]

^^^ K that shit was funny lol

[BushMasterBoy]

http://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/server400/18701/products/63/images/182/ObamaPromisesCondom__03370.1349065290.320.320.jpg

[theGinsue]

If folks need phones (I don't remember telephones as one of the three human needs: food, clothing & shelter), they can get by in emergencies with land-lines. Mobile phones are nothing but a luxury & a convenience. And if they just must​ have a mobile phone, then it needs to be the most basic "Jitterbug" type of phone available. If I can get by without a smartphone, so can the entitlement class.

[muddywings]

If folks need phones (I don't remember telephones as one of the three human needs: food, clothing & shelter), they can get by in emergencies with land-lines. Mobile phones are nothing but a luxury & a convenience. And if they just must​ have a mobile phone, then it needs to be the most basic "Jitterbug" type of phone available. If I can get by without a smartphone, so can the entitlement class.

If I recall, that was the orginal intent of the program. Provide people in rural america phones so they can use it in an emergency. Then it morphed it that bloated waste of a program.

[StagLefty]

I hate cell phones so much I wouldn't take a free one even if I qualified for it.

[theGinsue]

If I recall, that was the orginal intent of the program. Provide people in rural america phones so they can use it in an emergency. Then it morphed it that bloated waste of a program.
You are correct. But we all know you don't need 200+ minutes a month (per phone) for emergencies. More .gov liberalism buying off the entitlement class.

[TS12000]

Cell phones with no service can still dial 911...just saying.

[hurley842002]

Cell phones with no service can still dial 911...just saying.

This... Been saying it forever!

[jerrymrc]

Other than people that do not have one I am sure I have the cheapest one around. Phone was $20 and I am on my second one in the 7 years I have had this #. I use it for travel and when I go out but with the roll over min and it came with double min I spend $80 per year for it.

$20 gets me a 60 min card that is 120 min and 3 months. I have to buy 4 per year. I currently have about 400 min on the phone. 40 min per month is more than enough but then they are not using it for emergency's now are they?

I bet they blow through there 200 min in a few days. Then they claim it was lost or stolen so they can get another one. As mentioned in the article it just needs to be scrapped and start over. In most places a slandered local land line is like $19 per month and that is what it needs to go back to IMO.

[TEAMRICO]

I see kids at the school I work for texting away on the Obama Phones.
The whole family gets one...for Emergencies.....like "Justin Bieber is soooooo cute" LOL!
Sad to see the US come to this.

[roberth]

Buying votes, just like theGinsue said.

I cannot wait until these people run out of fiat money.

[SA Friday]

Daaaaaaaaanm. How do we get Ginsue one of these here Obama phones?

[Irving]

I've debated this with a liberal friend and he was ok with it. "A small fee is no big deal to us so I'm all for it if it helps someone else out."

Your friend must be okay with mosquitoes, ticks, and vampires then.

Anyone remember that plan in Detroit or Chicago that spent 2 million dollars to clothe the poor, and only ended up clothing 40 people?

[theGinsue]

Daaaaaaaaanm. How do we get Ginsue one of these here Obama phones?
Obama phone? Me? Me with an Obama phone?

Ain't nobody got time for that.

[clublights]

Your friend must be okay with mosquitoes, ticks, and vampires then.

Anyone remember that plan in Detroit or Chicago that spent 2 million dollars to clothe the poor, and only ended up clothing 40 people?

I think it was less then 40 people at that ... I'm leaning to Detroit being the location ...

[speedysst]

You are correct. But we all know you don't need 200+ minutes a month (per phone) for emergencies. More .gov liberalism buying off the entitlement class. Yes but according to some of them they need the phones to give the numbers to all the potential employers they meet with.

[Voception]

If only more people would just wake up.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLZuKGTZlEY

[Ronin13]

Yes but according to some of them they need the phones to give the numbers to all the potential employers they meet with.
[ROFL1]
That's a good one!

[Dingo]

Missing teeth.. that's gangsta. Straight up OG...

Ok, Alex has sunk to a new low if this is the caliber (no pun intended) of guest he needs to root under rocks for. The fact that somebody as ignorant as she is (as she has loudly and obnoxiously demonstrated), has a earth-shattering epiphany about the politician she was previously excited about, is not really blowing my skirt up. This is the bottom-of-the-barrel, Maury Povich style of theatricality that will keep AJ nicely fettered to the D-list, sharing company with the likes of Michael Moore.

[Zundfolge]

Ok, I'm going to put four separate thoughts together and I want y'all to figure out what they add up to.




Boston Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was on welfare.
Welfare recipients get free cell phones.
the Boston bombs were remotely detonated.
Most remote detonated IEDs are remotely detonated with cell phones.



[Bang]

[jerrymrc]

Ok, I'm going to put four separate thoughts together and I want y'all to figure out what they add up to.




Boston Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was on welfare.
Welfare recipients get free cell phones.
the Boston bombs were remotely detonated.
Most remote detonated IEDs are remotely detonated with cell phones.



[Bang]

So what your trying to say is that it was all bush's fault. [LOL] Kinda hard to blame Reagan since he is dead. [Flower]

[alxone]

So what your trying to say is that it was all bush's fault. [LOL] Kinda hard to blame Reagan since he is dead. [Flower]always blame the reganomics of bush