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Obama Wastes $2.2B On Low Income Cell Phones, Over 40% Fraudulent Claims

 
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The U.S. government spent about $2.2 billion last year to provide phones to low-income Americans, but a Wall Street Journal review of the program shows that a large number of those who received the phones haven't proved they are eligible to receive them.

[link to online.wsj.com]

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02/12/2013 11:12 AM
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You want the poor to be cut off from calling emergency contact? job offers? etc?
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02/12/2013 11:13 AM
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but it is good fodder for funny auto-tune videos. that's worth a couple billion isn't it?

affirmative action!

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02/12/2013 11:15 AM
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Actually Clinton set this up not Obama, Obam's name is just on the phone.
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Actually Clinton set this up not Obama, Obam's name is just on the phone.
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actually I believe it was Bush that started it.
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Actually Clinton set this up not Obama, Obam's name is just on the phone.
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actually I believe it was Bush that started it.
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Started by Reagan. Cell phones were from Bush.
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Yeah before sail-foams were free, the poor could not find work.
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02/12/2013 11:38 AM
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I saw something the other day about a new plan giving Androids with internet access to the poor.
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why the fuck do people who are broke need free cell phones anyway?

it's fucking ridiculous

hell why not give them all free vacations to Disney World too
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why the fuck do people who are broke need free cell phones anyway?

it's fucking ridiculous

hell why not give them all free vacations to Disney World too
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My bill is 35 a month the phone assistance program would save me 13 bucks.
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hes also wasted 10 trillion since hes been in office..whats your point?
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It was Reagan that started the welfare phones. Google that shit.


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why the fuck do people who are broke need free cell phones anyway?

it's fucking ridiculous

hell why not give them all free vacations to Disney World too
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It's not about the broke people. Think about it. All the shit people in this country need and want all the time. Do you really think the gov listens to anything the people say??? Blame this free cell phone BS on the so-called leaders of this country. not the people who have them.

Damn what the fuck are people thinking these days.....
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why the fuck do people who are broke need free cell phones anyway?

it's fucking ridiculous

hell why not give them all free vacations to Disney World too
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can these sail foams be unlocked?

then everyone will be in jail
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That whole program has become a payback/kickback to large Obama supporters...
"And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius

"Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..."

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All that money goes to Carlos Slim (who owns Tracphone), and Carlos gives his money to...research into corn and wheat?

[link to www.bloomberg.com]

Carlos Slim, the world’s richest person, donated to a group supported by fellow billionaire Bill Gates that performs research for agricultural productivity.

Slim contributed research facilities that Mexico’s International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, known by its Spanish initials as CIMMYT, will open this week, according to a a statement published today on his website and signed by Slim and Gates.


"Improving" our food? Why does Carlos Slim want to improve our food?
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Tracfone administers the Obamafone. They were campaign donors, this is Hussein's way of showing thanks for their kind generosity.
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I don't understand why they need cell phones either. If it is for emergencies or job offers wouldn't it be more cost effective to give them a land line? OR for that matter, if they MUST give cell phones make it incoming calls only and emergency 911 out going. What is next HD flat screens so they can watch instructional videos for a potential job that they will find some reason NOT to take?
Maybe if they turned the economy off and then turned it back on it might run better. Works for my computer.
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... buying votes is NEVER a waste of $$$$$$$$$$$ ...
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... and using OTHER PEOPLES' money is even better ...
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Believe me, they don't just use those cell phones for jobs unless if you call drug dealing jobs. They have arrested many people in our area selling drugs and all of them had the free cell phones from the government. Gosh what is this world coming to. They also did an investigation through the local TV station and many were using the cell phones just for drug deals, and for reasons it is not suppose to be used for. Makes me think the government is helping to support the criminals in our communities.
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they should all get a free chevy VOLT with 24"wheels so they can go out and spend thier EBT money!
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Fraudulent...

It amazes how many people have disability tags in their vehicles now, compared to 20 years ago.
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well we can all agree that there is one thing obama is very good at, wasting taxpayer money.
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The U.S. government spent about $2.2 billion last year to provide phones to low-income Americans, but a Wall Street Journal review of the program shows that a large number of those who received the phones haven't proved they are eligible to receive them.

[link to online.wsj.com]

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That`s okay, a large number of them haven`t proved they were eligible to vote either but that didn`t stop them.
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From a fraudulent government come a fraudulent populace.

The shit ALWAYS runs downhill. Shit at the top, definitely shit at the bottom.

And the honest and good people are left walking around knee deep in hip waders wondering how it all went to shit.
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You want the poor to be cut off from calling emergency contact? job offers? etc?
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They cant use land lines?
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Actually Clinton set this up not Obama, Obam's name is just on the phone.
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actually I believe it was Bush that started it.
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Started by Reagan. Cell phones were from Bush.
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The only cells back then were heavy hand held. You're busted Obot shill.
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why the fuck do people who are broke need free cell phones anyway?

it's fucking ridiculous

hell why not give them all free vacations to Disney World too
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Only a matter of time.
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2.2 billion on CIA BUGs. As in when you bug a room for intelligence data. as in secret microphones or video cameras.

As in the recording of data, text messages, voice calls. The systematic tracking of your exact GPS location over time.


All he wants is power and control over every aspect of your life.

Thats why he spent 2.2 billion on a spying device.
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Actually Clinton set this up not Obama, Obam's name is just on the phone.
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I thought it was Apple's name?





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