The bottom line: A government phone program for low-income Americans cost consumers $1.6 billion last year, compared with $772 million in 2008.
Free cell phones (and internet while we are at it) for everyone!!! Isn’t that in the Bill of Rights?
It is not news that being poor in this country does not mean what it use to. My wife is a school teacher in the absolute poorest school in the absolute worst part of our fair town. Gang problems are rampant. 95% of the school is on free or reduced lunch. The other 5% should be but they are too proud. Yet, they ALL have the latest smartphones and cable TV. But, the parents don’t have the means to feed their children breakfast or lunch.
The rest of the world’s poor, and even some of those considered rich in their homelands, would risk life and limb to be poor in this country. I have seen it. My wife teaches their kids.
My favorite quote in the first link:
“We will not tolerate waste or misuse of program funds,†said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.
Right.
It is nice to see that the program is getting scaled back. How the hell did it get so big in the first place?
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For $10 you can get a disposable cellphone, and call 911 as much as you need on it for no more cash.
That is all the phone a welfare case needs.