] Cell Phones for the Lazy? Unbelievable!

Health insurance should cover cell phones you need them to call 911

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From: Tom Wagner
Date: Sunday, February 12, 2012
Subject: [PresidentBarakObama] Cell Phones for the Lazy? Unbelievable!
To: PresidentBarakObama@yahoogroups.com


 

TIME Magazine: "Last year, a federal program paid out $1.6 billion to cover free cell phones and the monthly bills of 12.5 million wireless accounts. The program, overseen by the FCC and intended to help low-income Americans, is popular for obvious reasons, with participation rising steeply since 2008, when the government paid $772 million for phones and monthly bills." Can I give you the numbers here again? In 2008, the federal government paid $772 million for phones and monthly bills. Since 2008, since Obama, $772 million has become $1.6 billion. It's more than doubled.

"But observers complain that the program suffers from poor oversight, in which phones go to people who don't qualify, and hundreds of thousands of those who do qualify have more than one phone. Last summer, a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story shed some light on a government program that relatively few Americans knew existed. The Lifeline program provides low-income Americans with free cell phones." They're not smart phones at least, but that's probably coming. "It covers up to 250 free minutes each month. As many as 5.5 million residents in Pennsylvania alone could qualify for the program, which is funded primarily by the Universal Service Fund fee added to the bills of land-line and wireless customers."
George W. Bush started this insanity but obama has doubled it's use. But i guess it gets him votes.

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