Obama-phones made the world's richest man even richer!

Carlos Slim, 70 billllion

Yes sir!

What the fuck!

I agree. Talk about Government getting involved in Corporations. This has SOCIALISM written ALL over it.

The #1 thing I hate about the program is HOW THEY ADVERTISE!! I mean really do we need any advertisement to give shit away. Word spreads fast enough no need to waste extra money on advertisements. Plus I hear people talking about getting 3 and 4 "obama phones" all the time. Someone needs to keep a better eye on fraud and abuse of the system.

I agree. And it's a Government program, so you know we are footing to bill for this crap and probably the advertisements as well.

It's also an added service charge on your cell phone bill..

Advertising free crap gives Obummer yet another chance to redistribute tax dollars to his buds.

That I did not know. I don't usually read my cell phone bill. Thanks for informing me. That's actually really interesting!

The UCF pays for it, you dip stick. Also, it was pushed more under Bush, in 2008. I wish you people would learn to read, you're just too lazy to look in to anything.. It's a bit sickening.

You're the new Obama-bots, hope you enjoy your new status as half-tarded morans.

I did read the article bro, as you can see I summarized it in the post. It's simply called the Obama-Phone because it's becoming quite popular now. I am non-Partisan, as I vote Libertarian.

"bama-fone…keep him in pres-dent gnomesane?"

Great call. My "government surcharges" were $3.00 or so the last time I noticed. I looked a month ago when I got a new phone and now it's $8.50 or so. Seriously?

Haha, that's a steep jump. I see the Government surcharges on there. I gotta pay attention to this more. I wanna see how much it goes up yearly...

They are systematically trying to destroy this country.


They want us to snap. They will keep pushing and pushing and either they will roll over us and take over or we will snap and SHTF mode goes into play, and they will say...see they are evil violent people and we need to do something.

don't know if it is still true, but the most expensive call to make in the world use to be from the US to Mexico. That is how CS made at least several billion.

Who Pays for the Lifeline Program?

All telecommunications service providers and certain other providers of telecommunications must contribute to the federal USF based on a percentage of their end-user telecommunications revenues. These companies include wireline telephone companies, wireless telephone companies, and certain Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers.

Some consumers may notice a “Universal Service” line item on their telephone bills. This line item appears when a company chooses to recover its USF contributions directly from its customers by billing them this charge. The FCC does not require this charge to be passed on to customers. Each company makes a business decision about whether and how to assess charges to recover its Universal Service costs.

[link to www.fcc.gov]

BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME FOLKS!!!!


Universal Service Fund

Prior to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the Universal Service Fund (USF) operated as a mechanism by which interstate long distance carriers were assessed to subsidize telephone service to low-income households and high-cost areas. The Communications Act of 1934 stated that all people in the United States shall have access to rapid, efficient, nationwide communications service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 expanded the traditional definition of universal service - affordable, nationwide telephone service to include among other things rural health care providers and eligible schools and libraries. Today, FCC provides universal service support through four mechanisms

1.High Cost Support Mechanism provides support to certain qualifying telephone companies that serve high cost areas, thereby making phone service affordable for the residents of these regions.
2.Low Income Support Mechanism assists low-income customers by helping to pay for monthly telephone charges as well as connection charges to initiate telephone service.
3.Rural Health Care Support Mechanism allows rural health care providers to pay rates for telecommunications services similar to those of their urban counterparts, making telehealth services affordable.
4.Schools and Libraries Support Mechanism, popularly know as the "E-Rate," provides telecommunication services (e.g., local and long-distance calling, high-speed lines), Internet access, and internal connections (the equipment to deliver these services) to eligible schools and libraries.
Schools and Libraries - Back

Exactly. Which is why we must say, fuck what everyone else thinks.. try to wake up and inform the people who will listen, and prepare for the worst, pray for the best.

Great name. Mr. Slim

FASCISM, please!

So we the taxpayers are helping to pay this guy's salary w/o agreeing to it.

^^^
This.

Indeed this is true.

And the whiners are over on another thread bitching about Steve Wynn making a fortune on his own. I guess it would be alright if he made it through cozying up to Obama instead of justifiably criticizing him.

F-A-S-C-I-S-M

That's how it is spelled.

ARRIBA MEXICO CABRONES!!!!!

4 more years,4 more years

It always leads back to $$$. Thanks OP.