About Freakin’ Time
FCC Begins Tracking ‘Obama Phone’ Use
That’s a good first step. Why it wasn’t done from day one, I dunno.
Oh well. Better late than never, I guess.
Perhaps now the suspicious use/fraud rate in the program will drop below the 41% level found last year.
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work"
Oh I’m sure they’ll get to the bottom of this. Just as soon as they find out who was on the grassy knoll, and who shot JR Ewing. Yep, they have Inspector Clouseau on retainer.
Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, OBAMA PHONE!!!!
How soon will they shut the investigation down due to racism complaints?
Perhaps now the suspicious use/fraud rate in the program will drop below the 41% level found last year.
No. It won’t.
These phones should only be able to talk to emergency numbers.
period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax-2i71bqGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr201FqTP4w&list=RDAx-2i71bqGw
Yeah Bama Phone!
Bama Phone ..You Know!
I’ve seen comm-freakin’-ercials for these phones! As if the segment of society receiving them needs to be informed that they are available. Comes now a Texas judge who accuses the DHS of failing to enforce the immigration law AND breaking it by smuggling illegal kids to their illegals parent(s). What’s next, a president who, while the nation reels from unemployment and obamacare will spend millions of taxpayer monies on a 14-day Hawaiian and rent a home for the stay there at $24,000 per week? Huh? Oh. Well, then, I’ll try this: What’s next, a president and Congress who use military retirees as their whipping boys, reducing their retirement benefits, including those of the disabled retirees? Huh? Oh. Damn. Fahgettaboutit.
@2 and @5 My wife works for the State of Washington collecting child support. They are in the same building as the welfare office. T-Mobile comes to their building 3 or 4 times a year and sets up a tent and hands out those phones like candy. Of course we as taxpayers, foot the bills. ChipNASA, I watched the video and though it was humorous, the scary part is that illiterate, fat ass woman is voting! She should be sterilized and we should be giving a ten question (at least) test at the voting booths to prove you are smart enough to vote before we allow them to cast one. That is why I say no one who is illegal should be allowed to vote. No one who is on welfare or receiving handouts from the government should be allowed to vote. F@ck them all. They are part of the ilk who helped put Obama in office. Stupid f@ckers! Just An Old Dog, you are right, that should be the limit of use for these phones. But the bullshit being handed to us it that they are used to help them contact potential employers for work. What a crock of shit! These scum sucking welfare turds, like the woman in the video, WON’T take a job if you hand it to them. They are the worst scum of society next to thug criminals. I have lots of respect for someone out of work and looking for a job. But these multi-generational bottom feeders are a drag on our nation. And Congress is taking away benefits from retirees and veterans!!! Screw Congress and screw these welfare, scum sucking, blights on our society! Sorry I am on a rant. I hate people like that and we have far, far too many of them.
@6 MCPO NYC, I was getting all calmed down and I saw you video links and here I am again. Pissed as hell! F@cking illiterate ass wipes like that fat ass woman should never be allowed to vote to “keep Obama president”, for the “minorities” who “gots their Obama phone”. For fear of offending anyone here about anything racial I will shut the hell up NOW and keep my opinions to myself!
I don’t know, Sparks, the illegals in my neighborhood don’t talk a lot, but I haven’t seen any of them with obamaphones or foodstamps. They all seem to be working for lawn guys named Garcia, and sending their kids to school and the kids are well-behaved. I’ve enhanced my use of Spanish because of them.
But maybe it’s just where I live, because a couple of miles away, it’s not nearly as nice as it is in my neighborhood.
What ever happened to workfare? Seemed a nice system in Germany… you wanted to collect public dole money, you did things like wash roadside signs and pick up litter. Made for a nice clean country…. and especially in winter, a hell of an incentive to get a real job.
@11 I understand and agree with what you posted. We have a minority population in my community that is mostly Mexican. They are in two camps. Those that work hard, have their kids in school and are good honest folks. The other camp are on welfare and taking everything the government will give them. The latter group outnumbers the former. But…a lot of whites in my community are also on welfare. I still say that because by definition they are illegal, they should not be allowed to vote. Voting is a privilege and right, I believe, reserved for legal citizens if the United Sates.
@11 I understand and agree with what you posted. We have a minority population in my community that is mostly Mexican. They are in two camps. Those that work hard, have their kids in school and are good honest folks. The other camp are on welfare and taking everything the government will give them. The latter group outnumbers the former. But…a lot of whites in my community are also on welfare. I still say that because by definition they are illegal, they should not be allowed to vote. Voting is a privilege and right, I believe, reserved for legal citizens of the United Sates.
Sorry for the double post.
@12 David I could not agree with you more. Unfortunately it was determined decades ago that work for welfare was tantamount to slavery. At least that is how the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons of the day twisted it. The logic is wrong though. If welfare was meant to help, short term, until you found work, it implies you are able to work. Therefore what is wrong with working for the community, city, county or state you are receiving welfare in, to make it a better place? That is, until you find a job of your choosing and abilities. Problem is that welfare recipients, especially multi-generation, recipients truly do not want to work because the liberal left has made it too easy for them to do nothing except put their hand out. Think about that woman in the video with the Obama phone. Think about asking her to work in the community of Cleveland, simply picking up trash in public parks or cleaning road signs. Think of the self entitled indignation you would get from her at the mere thought that she give back to those who are giving to her.
Sparks: US citizenship is required to vote in Federal elections. States and localities have broad latitude regarding voting eligibility requirements in non-Federal elections.
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David: that went out the window in 2009, when the current POTUS very quietly “suspended” the Clinton-era requirement that able-bodied single adults without children collect SNAP benefits (AKA food stamps) no more than 3 months out of 36. That suspension has never been lifted.
http://valorguardians.com/?p=32109
that’s what happens when you stop paying attention and let the citizens vote themselves bread and circuses, I guess.
I posted on this thread earlier today, specifically @10. If my words offended anyone in any way, please accept my apology. I meant no harm and kinda went overboard in my anger towards the subject of the thread. I think what I think about the situation but some things are better left unsaid or said better. Again, my apology is here if needed. Hopefully there is no harm and no foul. I thank everyone here for their tolerance of my, perhaps, ignorance.
Anger management issues, Sparks?
Have you tried calling up someone you despise and telling him ‘You’re an asshole’ and then hanging up? I used to do that with a bunch of collections people, becuase they were calling about 6 different people who had had my phone number before I did (after I moved, new number, etc.).
It pissed me off, so I called one of them back and said, ‘Do I sound like Morris Whatever to you?’ ‘Uh, no.’ ‘Does it say Morris Whatever on the caller ID?’ ‘No.’ ‘Then you’re calling the wrong number, aren’t you?
Get the right f——g number, asshole.” and then I’d hang up.
I felt so much better afterwards.
@20 Thank you Ex-PH2. I feel better and you are a sweetheart!
Why is it called the Obama phone when it was Reagan’s administration who created the program?
@ #22: Uh, no, they are called “Obamaphones” because it is Obama who took a somewhat controversial program of providing land lines to victims of domestic abuse, and a very few other categories of persons, and morphed it into something unrecognizable and in no way related to the original intent. Oh, yeah, and made it into just another out of control, unbelievably expensive vote buying vehicle subsidized by the producers in society.
@22,23; Also because the Youtube video of the fat woman screaming about her Obamaphone went viral.
@22. Maybe it’s because the original legislation little resembles what is practiced today, with multiple phones issued to the same individuals with an ever-increasing number of minutes permitted. How may times do you call 911 each month? Or maybe it’s because there were no cellphones being distributed in 1985. The cell phones came in [wait for it] 2008, under OBAMA. Thus, the obamaphone.