Free Obamaphones [Archive] - Talk of The Villages Florida

Guest

08-02-2010, 07:31 AM

You just can't make this stuff up.........

https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/Home.aspx

Free Obama money

Free Obamacare

Free Obama cell phones

I guess it depends on what your definition of "free" is

Wait a minute....I've got an idea....how about free taxes?

Guest

08-02-2010, 07:58 AM

CABO:

Yes I see they have the instructions and help line in Spanish also.
Probably so the Illegals can get these phones. What a country.:rant-rave:

Guest

08-02-2010, 08:59 PM

Guest

08-03-2010, 06:30 AM

Damn! No FREE LARGE SCREEN HD TV's !:cus:

It's just a matter of time.

Guest

08-03-2010, 07:27 AM

I went to the link Cabo supplied and found the following under the About Lifeline.

"The federal "Lifeline" program was created during the Reagan Administration. Lifeline is a federal program created by the Reagan era Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1984. The program was enhanced under Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was supported on a broadly bipartisan basis in Congress. The FCC�s Low Income Program of the Universal Service Fund, which is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), is designed to ensure that quality telecommunications services are available to low-income customers at just, reasonable, and affordable rates. Lifeline support reduces eligible low-income consumers' monthly charges for basic telephone service."

Guest

08-03-2010, 08:37 AM

It is a totally different creature from the original 1934 act and the changes provided for lower rates for poor Americans for telephones (not free services) in 1984 to the sweeping changes imposed under Clinton in 1996 and free phones for households who qualify for free lunches and other government programs Tony.

The Universal Service Fund is a prime example of what happens when the federal government gets involved in private enterprise. As much as I respect my good friend from the mountains in Southwest Virginia US Rep. Rick Boucher, I think his Universal Service Reform Act of 2010 is a scary proposal. It is the backdrop for The National Broadband Plan being worked on now by the FCC. It is more government control and this brings the far reaching arm of the federal government into every home at the expense of the tax payers.

http://www.boucher.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2009&Itemid=41

http://www.broadband.gov/

Guest

08-03-2010, 02:26 PM

Tony, did you have a cell phone in 1984.....that would be 26 years ago?

Apples and oranges.