Remember the Obamaphone?
“Everybody in Cleveland have got Obamaphone, keep Obama as president, you know?” said Michelle Dowery, an Obama supporter at a 2012 Mitt Romney event, which went viral at the time. “He gave us a phone, he’s going to do more. … You sign up, you on food stamps, you on Social Security, you got no income, you got disability.”
Mr. Obama has indeed done more.
The Federal Communications Commission agreed Thursday to expand the Obamaphone, dubbed the LifeLine Program, to include high-speed Internet access. By doing so, the cost of the program will increase by 50 percent, without any efforts to reduce spending elsewhere, or clamp down on the program’s waste, fraud and abuse.
“Failing a major change in direction, the FCC is preparing to massively expand the size and scope of the Lifeline Program without the necessary inclusion of a hard budget or financial constraints,” conservative FCC Commissioner Michael O’Reilly wrote in his blog on the commission’s website.
“Such irresponsible action will balloon a program plagued by waste, fraud, and abuse and result in higher phone bills for every American — including those already struggling in the current economy. In sum, it’s a recipe for disaster, and I can’t and won’t be part of it,” he said.
The Lifeline program currently, is rife with waste, fraud and abuse.
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Don't forget, free breakfast, lunches, and food stamps. Then we can go on about money for bills deposited in their accounts, that they use to buy drugs, booze, cigarettes. Then there is the other programs to help pay their electric, rent, heat, and insurance.
ReplyDeleteYes, it sure pay not to work.
Just put me in the internment camp already.
ReplyDeleteMost of the recipients of these program "Freebies" are Blacks, this was published in a report Joe put up here recently. AS a white taxpayer, I believe we have paid back dearly for the slavery issues they so readily bring up. Just think of the money and the years we have been carrying this burden.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Dems are all for raising taxes to pay for more free stuff!
ReplyDelete1258, if they're raising taxes then that 'free stuff' ain't so free, is it? We need to perhaps stop all free stuff and create jobs. If people don't work, they don't eat. Might sound harsh but the entitlement mentality has to end now. Its bankrupting America along with all the other nonsense we spend money on - like $150B spent every year to keep a solar plant that doesn't even work. And we wonder why are National Debt will soon be $21 Trillion? Please. Any first grade add and subtraction math class can figure this one out.
ReplyDelete“Everybody in Cleveland have got Obamaphone, keep Obama as president, you know?” said Michelle Dowery, an Obama supporter at a 2012 Mitt Romney event, which went viral at the time. “He gave us a phone, he’s going to do more. … You sign up, you on food stamps, you on Social Security, you got no income, you got disability.”
ReplyDeleteThis makes me sick. We need to cut off Welfare to all blacks until they prove they want to work. Entitlements mean no incentive to work.