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In California, the unemployment rate may be above 10.2%, and the state debt may be above $16 billion, the state’s GDP may be in serious trouble and businesses may be leaving in droves due to ever-increasing tax rates, but that isn’t going to stop the gravy train (http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PUC-set-to-OKfree-phones-for-homeless-4104121.php) for the state’s poor and dispossessed. The California Public Utilities Commission is all set to greenlight a new program that would give homeless and low-income people free cell phones – call them Obamaphones – with free service. The idea is to help them reach out to possible job opportunities and stay connected with family.
San Francisco’s head of homeless initiatives, Bevan Dufty, was overjoyed: “This is great – it is transformative for homeless and low-income people. I expect San Francisco to be in the forefront and a model city for this program. Fundamentally, to be in the mainstream of our society you have to have a phone. And really, for the homeless population, you need a cell phone because they don’t have a home to hard-wire one into. We really need this plan.” Dufty is pushing an effort to allow the homeless to call 311 to find out where there’s an available bed at a homeless shelter. The state has funded phones for the poor for years, but they were always hardline phones, not cell phones. The new program will give beneficiaries some 250 minutes of time and 250 free text messages every month.
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Nice to know I would be able to make a phone call from the comfort of my card board box.
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Ah yes, more tax payer dollars to help the poor. Tax dollars for Food? No.. Clothing? No… Education? No… A place to live? Nope…. How about a nice juicy, comfy, warm cell phone so you can receive text messages when its time to come out from underneath the overpass and vote for a democrat that is living large while you stay ignorant and helpless. Way to go California!
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CHRISTINA
How will the homeless charge their phones if their " home " has no electricity?
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JIM DENNEY
Next up, a "refinanced" Solyndra will distribute shopping carts with solar panel powered charging stations. In the windy coastal areas, the carts will be upgraded with GE wind turbines. All participants in this groundbreaking Government/Ghetto partnership will be issued DOE propeller beanie caps featuring the Obama campaign logo.
A LIKE REPLY 6 hours ago in reply to Christina 15 Likes F
SELFPRESERVATION
Other than Obama is probably going to finance this fiasco for CA (that take it from "the rich" he loves to spout). You should be given the Nobel Prize for puting this in print. Why not, at least you did something, Barry did nothing and got it. You made me smile for the rest of the day.
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CANADIANLADY
Don't give the government any more ideas, Christina.
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FCALSONE
haven't you seen those little GREEN stoves that heat and charge cell phones.
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No problem. They'll be allowed to use YOUR home. After all, you probably didn't build it. By the way, will these be called JerryBrownphones in honor of the psychopathic governor? I live in Texas, and more Californians are moving here daily. Welcome to paradise, ye who have escaped Pharaoh.
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DIANEWE
Isn't that nthe truth! Taxes are going to go through the roof! Keep rewarding unproductivity and we will all go hungry.
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Yes Diane and Cptn Jarhead...NOTHING IS LIFE IS FREE. Guess where the damn money is going to come from to pay for all these FREE Obamaphones. Californians start taking good hard look at your phone bills because that's where the government is going to stick it to our *sses. I thought I would never see the day when being a slothful smuck would be more lucrative than being a hardworking, taxpaying legal citizen.
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DIANEWE
The days are here.
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LEOGUSTAVE
I'm betting you haven't missed many meals. All the bags I know are fat.
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WWBDINCT
Ummmm.....ever get a look at the morbidly obese union members? Forgot to add that Michelleda is not exactly Kate Moss!
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DIANEWE
No I'm absolutely Beautiful!...And I work to pay for my meals. What do you call a verbal abusive man like you? Again Merry Christmas
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GODHELPTHEUSA
Maybe she hasn't Leo but I'd be willing to bet she paid for them and didn't ask the government to feed her - how about you? BTW - I forgot to mention, if you hung out with a better crowd of people you might meet some decent women but then again, they probably would have anything to do with a Democrat or Liberal?
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CANADIANLADY
How else are you going to order a pizza?
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ANGUSHOPPER
How else are you going to make a drug deal?
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Excellent point.
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DONNAJ590
Whotothewhat: I laughed out loud. So funny!
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FCALSONE
I got one of these just to see if I could and it was easy... 800 minutes on a little LG flip phone for 5 bucks a month. I keep it in the car as a momento and emergencys.
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LEOGUSTAVE
Sorry to hear that you are so poor. Or did you have to lie to get it? Who needs a cell phone for emergencies unless you don't own a cell phone? And who doesn't own a cell phone these days...
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GODHELPTHEUSA
According to the proposal in California a lot of people don't have them!! Give'em a break Leo, "How else da gonna ordea they drugs n tacos!! Man you mean!!
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MRSOTTOBANCO
"How much did that 0bamaphone cost?" "My vote."
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ENDPORK
As a California resident I can only sit back in awe. I would not put this past them, then sit here and see how screwed up creative the libs are and amazed that residents vote with their feet instead of stay here and fight this. One thing that people need to watch for is does this actually go through? Nothing is really set in stone but those who could fight this.. the conservatives and republicans in this state will sit on their hands and do nothing. Two things that do not shock me... anymore... 1. how active and stupid the libs are here 2. how innactive the repubs are here and how many of them will just leave while the national republican party only comes here for donations once every four years.
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LEOGUSTAVE
Sounds like you are just screwed.
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LULUIE
If you live in Cali, like I do you are screwed.
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1GYPSYGAL
What is there to fight? Democrats now have a super-majority in California so it matters not anymore. We are conservative small business owners and have our building on the market now and soon will have the house listed. Will rent until our son graduates HS in three years and then we will vote with our feet and leave the state. Bar stool economics are about to
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occur.
A LIKE REPLY 3 hours ago in reply to endpork 1 Like F
SINEWAVEII
Yes, yes, but remember, there is no way we could balance the budget by cutting spending. "There isn't anything left we can cut".
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MIKE PANTS
The program was started during Reagan's administration.
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MRSOTTOBANCO
Only the rich could afford cell phones during the Reagan administration. There's a reason why they are called 0bamaphones.
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MIKE PANTS
Did you not read the article? The program provided land lines for the poor since the ‘80s. Land lines are not used anymore.
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MRSOTTOBANCO
Did you not look at the picture and derive some information from it? Sure there was an obscure program under Reagan. Whoopee! Subsidizing people's cell phones will not pay for itself in increased productivity or lower unemployment. It is an expensive waste of money.
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MIKE PANTS
I know, right? Reading is HARD. Easier to look at the pictures. An “obscure program” that has been running for 25 years, and suddenly you’re mad about it? Okay then.
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MRSOTTOBANCO
Did you know about the program before 0bamaphones got so much attention? I doubt it. I sure didn't. Just because it is old does not mean that it is universally known. For example, formal reasoning skills have been around since Socrates. Yet, you don't exhibit mastery of one of them. Go play with your 0bamaphone parasite!
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MIKE PANTS
Translation: The one news site I read just linked this to Obama, so now I HATE IT!!
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1GYPSYGAL
Phones were not provided to the homeless pal.
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MIKE PANTS
I know, they were provided to anyone under the poverty line which (gasp!) makes it even worse.
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DANIELB
We can live without your vote. We never had it and really don't want it.
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MRSOTTOBANCO
We can live without you and all other trolls. Move to North Korea!
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DANIELB
You mean you'll do the world a favor and die if I hang around atrolling and agloating. Hey you got a deal. I'll hang a round.
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MRSOTTOBANCO
You might as well. Since you don't have a job, a life or a future, what else can you do?
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CRISLVNV
No home, no car, no job, no bills, no desire to improve. Who do they need to call? Why not give them a job instead? Four more years, huh? We'll all be homeless by then.
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MIKE PANTS
At least then we won't have to read this horrific rants that someone who needs help must be lazy and worthless.
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STROKER07
You don't have to read them now. You can go back to Huffpo any time you like and stay there. And please take Dannylib and little leolib with you.
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GREGORY
Can't your friends read, mike ?
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MIKE PANTS
Pass. Those people are just as infuriating as you lot, but at least here I get to read the comments out loud to my friends for laughs.
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DANIELB
You won't know the difference, you're brain dead already.
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TUTTONELMONDOEBURLA
Give them a job instead. Sure, and when there's no way to call and ask "Can you begin Monday" use that as justification for a new program underwriting free Ford Fairlanes for the employers so they can drive out to the homeless camp and make the offer in person. You don't have to be an economist to predict that those Fairlanes would be seen at Starbucks more often than under a bridge.
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CONSERVATIVECHICK
Give them a JOB for God's sake. What are we doing?
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Let them get a job for their OWN sake.
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RIGHTTHEWRONG
To all you suckers who voted for Prop. 30 (tax increases) aren't you glad to see how the schools are benefiting? Check your phone bills, and watch the tax section, you will see an increase to help subsidize this madness plus the sales tax increases you begged for.
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MIKE PANTS
It's listed under "Service fees," not taxes, and the cost is projected to drop by $2 billion over the next three years due to the decreased reliance on landline infrastructure.
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RIGHTTHEWRONG
For the intellectually impaired, the following is the defintion of a TAX:If you were only half as smart as you think you are, D-bag. 1.a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or service s, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc. 2.a burdensome charge, obligation, duty, or dem and.
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MIKE PANTS
1) It’s not from the government. 2) It’s not burdensome. It’s still a fee. I’m easily half as smart as I think I am.
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GULFWWIND
Not to worry, they'll find another service to hit you for.
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MIKE PANTS
Oh no! Another 12 cents that will go towards helping the needy. Can I fathom anything worse. NO I CANNOT. IT IS LITERALLY THE WORST THING EVER.
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DUCATISTI
Hmm...you just KNOW what is coming next. Cant go to work looking bedraggled, so get your free ObamaSUIT. And what good does it do you to call to get a job if you can't get to work? Yup, you know it's coming Commiefornia ...Free ObamaCAR! Don't worry, it will be paid for by more taxes on every car registration paid for by the rich folk. Because your registration is already so low...you can afford it! And don't forget that free ObamaGAS that goes with it! Oh sure, your gas prices will necessarily skyrocket, but you working folk ARE all rich after all! Man am I glad I exercised my prerogative, took my company an my jobs and left California. Funny thing is...nearly every single neighbor around me...all medium to high income folk, all came from Commiefornia.
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MOHAMMEDX
If you can get a home, food, clothes, medical, and now cell service...why in gravy would you work? Hey Southern Mexican poor folks, I hope you're paying attencion!! The beauty is, CA probably has about 14 taxes to supposedly cover this, but when they realize it won't, or they have spent that boondoggle cash grab on other necessary programs, they will then tax the service providers so
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they can "do their share for the community in need" and those costs will then be passed on to the saps that work and actually pay for their cell service, CA residents can rest easy in the knowledge they are getting taxed 14...i mean 15 times for the same thing. The fools parade continues!
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RICKDRAKE58
SafeLink is run by a subsidiary of América Móvil, the world’s fourth largest wireless company in terms of subscribers, but it is not paid for directly by the company. Nor is it paid for with "tax payer money," as the e-mail claims. Rather, it is funded through the Universal Service Fund, which is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company, an independent, not-for-profit corporation set up by the Federal Communications Commission. The USF is sustained by contributions from telecommunications companies such as "long distance companies, local telephone companies, wireless telephone companies, paging companies, and payphone providers." The companies often charge customers to fund their contributions in the form of a universal service fee you might see on your monthly phone bill. The fund is then parceled out to companies, such as América Móvil, that create programs, such as SafeLink, to provide telecommunications service to rural areas and low-income households.
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MOHAMMEDX
"The companies often charge customers to fund their contributions in the form of a universal service fee you might see on your monthly phone bill"...ofen charge? ALWAYS charge. That's all I said. Along with twenty other redundant programs whose aims are the same. Enjoy. I paid my cell phone bill this month so you got your fee from me.
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MIKE PANTS
So you're saying the ONLY things it would take to get you to quit your job would be a low-income housing unit, Goodwill clothes, access to a free neighborhood clinic, and a 200-minute cell phone? You can literally think of no reason why someone would want more than that?
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MOHAMMEDX
NO, Im saying that giving someone who hasn't had a job in years LESS of a reason to find one is a bad idea. Amazing that was so hard to deduce. You do realize, at one point in this country, a person worked a job and earned money to get all these things. Maybe you don't.
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DOGGER 1
Some free beer would help seal the deal.
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DANIELB
What the hell did you say??? Not that it matters. IT'S FUN TIME in BreitFARTia.
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MOHAMMEDX
I would be delusionally happy and incoherent too if I just found out I was getting a free phone. Enjoy.
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DANIELB
Seriously an with no malice aforethought, you don't need any help in your delusional incoherence. It comes with your genes ... Keep posting. Got to continue getting my laughs.
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LULUIE
A bunch of idiot Liberals run Califonia. If i could I would leave. Stay away from here, get as far away as you can!
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New York is a little better, but not much!
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MIKE PANTS
The program is nationwide. It's only California that has modernized the program to include cell phones.
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HELEN BACK
Get with the program Mike. Free cell phones have been around for a long time.. CA isn't the first.Obama supporter screams about her “Obama phone” at a rally in Ohio. She tells a reporter, “Keep Obama in president, you know! He gave us a phone, he’s gonna do more.”
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LULUIE
Folks, All I can say is that that my state is stupid. They voted twice for Jerry brown, just like they voted twice for the amateur hour Obama. Take a good long look at California because the rest of country is heading down the same path. My taxes will only go higher. They probably won't get cheap phones either, cause they will be demanding the best phones probably (I -phones), just like they demand their free healthcare and their dream act education. I guess now having a free cell phone is a right. I can't believe this. No one works for anything anymore.
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MERCEDES138
The way the liberal leadership in CA works is that they sell Apple and ATT a huge government contract for phones and service for the homeless, courtesy of the taxpayer, then Jerry Brown, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, etc...invest in ATT and Apple stock.
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MARYVAL99
What is the matter California, you are not digging you grave fast enough?
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JAMES
Social justice theory has no economics behind it... It's all based and judged on intentions.
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FACETHEMUSIC
This really is a great program! Now they can call their state representatives to ask them where they can find their dignity!
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DIANEWE
Well here we go again? California my state asks to raise taxes and again the majority voted yes? And now we see more waste and fraud in the future. If we could Move we would! This outrageous waste of money of people who work hard, it's simply unexplainable. Whatever you reward you get more of! This state is completely run by Progressive Demonwits.
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It's not paid for with taxes.
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It's paid by taxes on Phone bills? Do you think money just appears?
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It’s paid for with a service fee on the phone bill, which is not a tax. If you don’t like it, opt out.
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LEOGUSTAVE
Once again, this is not tax money.
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In California, the unemployment rate may be above 10.2%, and the state debt may be above $16 billion, the state’s GDP may be in serious trouble and businesses may be leaving in droves due to ever-increasing tax rates, but that isn’t going to stop the gravy train (http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PUC-set-to-OKfree-phones-for-homeless-4104121.php) for the state’s poor and dispossessed. The California Public Utilities Commission is all set to greenlight a new program that would give homeless and low-income people free cell phones – call them Obamaphones – with free service. The idea is to help them reach out to possible job opportunities and stay connected with family.
San Francisco’s head of homeless initiatives, Bevan Dufty, was overjoyed: “This is great – it is transformative for homeless and low-income people. I expect San Francisco to be in the forefront and a model city for this program. Fundamentally, to be in the mainstream of our society you have to have a phone. And really, for the homeless population, you need a cell phone because they don’t have a home to hard-wire one into. We really need this plan.” Dufty is pushing an effort to allow the homeless to call 311 to find out where there’s an available bed at a homeless shelter. The state has funded phones for the poor for years, but they were always hardline phones, not cell phones. The new program will give beneficiaries some 250 minutes of time and 250 free text messages every month.
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Nice to know I would be able to make a phone call from the comfort of my card board box.
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Ah yes, more tax payer dollars to help the poor. Tax dollars for Food? No.. Clothing? No… Education? No… A place to live? Nope…. How about a nice juicy, comfy, warm cell phone so you can receive text messages when its time to come out from underneath the overpass and vote for a democrat that is living large while you stay ignorant and helpless. Way to go California!
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CHRISTINA
How will the homeless charge their phones if their " home " has no electricity?
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JIM DENNEY
Next up, a "refinanced" Solyndra will distribute shopping carts with solar panel powered charging stations. In the windy coastal areas, the carts will be upgraded with GE wind turbines. All participants in this groundbreaking Government/Ghetto partnership will be issued DOE propeller beanie caps featuring the Obama campaign logo.
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SELFPRESERVATION
Other than Obama is probably going to finance this fiasco for CA (that take it from "the rich" he loves to spout). You should be given the Nobel Prize for puting this in print. Why not, at least you did something, Barry did nothing and got it. You made me smile for the rest of the day.
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CANADIANLADY
Don't give the government any more ideas, Christina.
A LIKE REPLY 6 hours ago in reply to Christina 13 Likes F
FCALSONE
haven't you seen those little GREEN stoves that heat and charge cell phones.
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VICTORYMAN
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12/10/2012 7:57 PM
Paradise Lost: CA to Provide Free Cell Phones for Homeless
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/10/California-free-ce...
No problem. They'll be allowed to use YOUR home. After all, you probably didn't build it. By the way, will these be called JerryBrownphones in honor of the psychopathic governor? I live in Texas, and more Californians are moving here daily. Welcome to paradise, ye who have escaped Pharaoh.
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DIANEWE
Isn't that nthe truth! Taxes are going to go through the roof! Keep rewarding unproductivity and we will all go hungry.
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JAYNE NIELSEN
Yes Diane and Cptn Jarhead...NOTHING IS LIFE IS FREE. Guess where the damn money is going to come from to pay for all these FREE Obamaphones. Californians start taking good hard look at your phone bills because that's where the government is going to stick it to our *sses. I thought I would never see the day when being a slothful smuck would be more lucrative than being a hardworking, taxpaying legal citizen.
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DIANEWE
The days are here.
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LEOGUSTAVE
I'm betting you haven't missed many meals. All the bags I know are fat.
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WWBDINCT
Ummmm.....ever get a look at the morbidly obese union members? Forgot to add that Michelleda is not exactly Kate Moss!
A LIKE 5 hours ago in reply to LeoGustave 10 Likes F
DIANEWE
No I'm absolutely Beautiful!...And I work to pay for my meals. What do you call a verbal abusive man like you? Again Merry Christmas
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GODHELPTHEUSA
Maybe she hasn't Leo but I'd be willing to bet she paid for them and didn't ask the government to feed her - how about you? BTW - I forgot to mention, if you hung out with a better crowd of people you might meet some decent women but then again, they probably would have anything to do with a Democrat or Liberal?
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CANADIANLADY
How else are you going to order a pizza?
A LIKE REPLY 6 hours ago in reply to whotothewhat 7 Likes F
ANGUSHOPPER
How else are you going to make a drug deal?
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CANADIANLADY
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12/10/2012 7:57 PM
Paradise Lost: CA to Provide Free Cell Phones for Homeless
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/10/California-free-ce...
Excellent point.
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DONNAJ590
Whotothewhat: I laughed out loud. So funny!
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FCALSONE
I got one of these just to see if I could and it was easy... 800 minutes on a little LG flip phone for 5 bucks a month. I keep it in the car as a momento and emergencys.
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LEOGUSTAVE
Sorry to hear that you are so poor. Or did you have to lie to get it? Who needs a cell phone for emergencies unless you don't own a cell phone? And who doesn't own a cell phone these days...
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GODHELPTHEUSA
According to the proposal in California a lot of people don't have them!! Give'em a break Leo, "How else da gonna ordea they drugs n tacos!! Man you mean!!
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MRSOTTOBANCO
"How much did that 0bamaphone cost?" "My vote."
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ENDPORK
As a California resident I can only sit back in awe. I would not put this past them, then sit here and see how screwed up creative the libs are and amazed that residents vote with their feet instead of stay here and fight this. One thing that people need to watch for is does this actually go through? Nothing is really set in stone but those who could fight this.. the conservatives and republicans in this state will sit on their hands and do nothing. Two things that do not shock me... anymore... 1. how active and stupid the libs are here 2. how innactive the repubs are here and how many of them will just leave while the national republican party only comes here for donations once every four years.
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LEOGUSTAVE
Sounds like you are just screwed.
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LULUIE
If you live in Cali, like I do you are screwed.
A LIKE 5 hours ago in reply to LeoGustave 3 Likes F
1GYPSYGAL
What is there to fight? Democrats now have a super-majority in California so it matters not anymore. We are conservative small business owners and have our building on the market now and soon will have the house listed. Will rent until our son graduates HS in three years and then we will vote with our feet and leave the state. Bar stool economics are about to
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12/10/2012 7:57 PM
Paradise Lost: CA to Provide Free Cell Phones for Homeless
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/10/California-free-ce...
occur.
A LIKE REPLY 3 hours ago in reply to endpork 1 Like F
SINEWAVEII
Yes, yes, but remember, there is no way we could balance the budget by cutting spending. "There isn't anything left we can cut".
A LIKE REPLY 7 hours ago in reply to MrSottobanco 11 Likes F
MIKE PANTS
The program was started during Reagan's administration.
A LIKE REPLY 6 hours ago in reply to MrSottobanco 1 Like F
MRSOTTOBANCO
Only the rich could afford cell phones during the Reagan administration. There's a reason why they are called 0bamaphones.
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MIKE PANTS
Did you not read the article? The program provided land lines for the poor since the ‘80s. Land lines are not used anymore.
A LIKE 5 hours ago in reply to MrSottobanco 1 Like F
MRSOTTOBANCO
Did you not look at the picture and derive some information from it? Sure there was an obscure program under Reagan. Whoopee! Subsidizing people's cell phones will not pay for itself in increased productivity or lower unemployment. It is an expensive waste of money.
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MIKE PANTS
I know, right? Reading is HARD. Easier to look at the pictures. An “obscure program” that has been running for 25 years, and suddenly you’re mad about it? Okay then.
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MRSOTTOBANCO
Did you know about the program before 0bamaphones got so much attention? I doubt it. I sure didn't. Just because it is old does not mean that it is universally known. For example, formal reasoning skills have been around since Socrates. Yet, you don't exhibit mastery of one of them. Go play with your 0bamaphone parasite!
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MIKE PANTS
Translation: The one news site I read just linked this to Obama, so now I HATE IT!!
A LIKE 5 hours ago in reply to MrSottobanco 1 Like F
1GYPSYGAL
Phones were not provided to the homeless pal.
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MIKE PANTS
I know, they were provided to anyone under the poverty line which (gasp!) makes it even worse.
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12/10/2012 7:57 PM
Paradise Lost: CA to Provide Free Cell Phones for Homeless
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/10/California-free-ce...
DANIELB
We can live without your vote. We never had it and really don't want it.
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MRSOTTOBANCO
We can live without you and all other trolls. Move to North Korea!
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DANIELB
You mean you'll do the world a favor and die if I hang around atrolling and agloating. Hey you got a deal. I'll hang a round.
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MRSOTTOBANCO
You might as well. Since you don't have a job, a life or a future, what else can you do?
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CRISLVNV
No home, no car, no job, no bills, no desire to improve. Who do they need to call? Why not give them a job instead? Four more years, huh? We'll all be homeless by then.
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MIKE PANTS
At least then we won't have to read this horrific rants that someone who needs help must be lazy and worthless.
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STROKER07
You don't have to read them now. You can go back to Huffpo any time you like and stay there. And please take Dannylib and little leolib with you.
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GREGORY
Can't your friends read, mike ?
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MIKE PANTS
Pass. Those people are just as infuriating as you lot, but at least here I get to read the comments out loud to my friends for laughs.
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DANIELB
You won't know the difference, you're brain dead already.
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TUTTONELMONDOEBURLA
Give them a job instead. Sure, and when there's no way to call and ask "Can you begin Monday" use that as justification for a new program underwriting free Ford Fairlanes for the employers so they can drive out to the homeless camp and make the offer in person. You don't have to be an economist to predict that those Fairlanes would be seen at Starbucks more often than under a bridge.
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CONSERVATIVECHICK
Give them a JOB for God's sake. What are we doing?
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12/10/2012 7:57 PM
Paradise Lost: CA to Provide Free Cell Phones for Homeless
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/10/California-free-ce...
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WILLIAM_STANLEY
Let them get a job for their OWN sake.
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RIGHTTHEWRONG
To all you suckers who voted for Prop. 30 (tax increases) aren't you glad to see how the schools are benefiting? Check your phone bills, and watch the tax section, you will see an increase to help subsidize this madness plus the sales tax increases you begged for.
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MIKE PANTS
It's listed under "Service fees," not taxes, and the cost is projected to drop by $2 billion over the next three years due to the decreased reliance on landline infrastructure.
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RIGHTTHEWRONG
For the intellectually impaired, the following is the defintion of a TAX:If you were only half as smart as you think you are, D-bag. 1.a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or service s, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc. 2.a burdensome charge, obligation, duty, or dem and.
A LIKE REPLY 4 hours ago in reply to Mike Pants 3 Likes F
MIKE PANTS
1) It’s not from the government. 2) It’s not burdensome. It’s still a fee. I’m easily half as smart as I think I am.
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GULFWWIND
Not to worry, they'll find another service to hit you for.
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MIKE PANTS
Oh no! Another 12 cents that will go towards helping the needy. Can I fathom anything worse. NO I CANNOT. IT IS LITERALLY THE WORST THING EVER.
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DUCATISTI
Hmm...you just KNOW what is coming next. Cant go to work looking bedraggled, so get your free ObamaSUIT. And what good does it do you to call to get a job if you can't get to work? Yup, you know it's coming Commiefornia ...Free ObamaCAR! Don't worry, it will be paid for by more taxes on every car registration paid for by the rich folk. Because your registration is already so low...you can afford it! And don't forget that free ObamaGAS that goes with it! Oh sure, your gas prices will necessarily skyrocket, but you working folk ARE all rich after all! Man am I glad I exercised my prerogative, took my company an my jobs and left California. Funny thing is...nearly every single neighbor around me...all medium to high income folk, all came from Commiefornia.
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MOHAMMEDX
If you can get a home, food, clothes, medical, and now cell service...why in gravy would you work? Hey Southern Mexican poor folks, I hope you're paying attencion!! The beauty is, CA probably has about 14 taxes to supposedly cover this, but when they realize it won't, or they have spent that boondoggle cash grab on other necessary programs, they will then tax the service providers so
7 of 10
12/10/2012 7:57 PM
Paradise Lost: CA to Provide Free Cell Phones for Homeless
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/10/California-free-ce...
they can "do their share for the community in need" and those costs will then be passed on to the saps that work and actually pay for their cell service, CA residents can rest easy in the knowledge they are getting taxed 14...i mean 15 times for the same thing. The fools parade continues!
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RICKDRAKE58
SafeLink is run by a subsidiary of América Móvil, the world’s fourth largest wireless company in terms of subscribers, but it is not paid for directly by the company. Nor is it paid for with "tax payer money," as the e-mail claims. Rather, it is funded through the Universal Service Fund, which is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company, an independent, not-for-profit corporation set up by the Federal Communications Commission. The USF is sustained by contributions from telecommunications companies such as "long distance companies, local telephone companies, wireless telephone companies, paging companies, and payphone providers." The companies often charge customers to fund their contributions in the form of a universal service fee you might see on your monthly phone bill. The fund is then parceled out to companies, such as América Móvil, that create programs, such as SafeLink, to provide telecommunications service to rural areas and low-income households.
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MOHAMMEDX
"The companies often charge customers to fund their contributions in the form of a universal service fee you might see on your monthly phone bill"...ofen charge? ALWAYS charge. That's all I said. Along with twenty other redundant programs whose aims are the same. Enjoy. I paid my cell phone bill this month so you got your fee from me.
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MIKE PANTS
So you're saying the ONLY things it would take to get you to quit your job would be a low-income housing unit, Goodwill clothes, access to a free neighborhood clinic, and a 200-minute cell phone? You can literally think of no reason why someone would want more than that?
A LIKE REPLY 6 hours ago in reply to mohammedX 1 Like F
MOHAMMEDX
NO, Im saying that giving someone who hasn't had a job in years LESS of a reason to find one is a bad idea. Amazing that was so hard to deduce. You do realize, at one point in this country, a person worked a job and earned money to get all these things. Maybe you don't.
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DOGGER 1
Some free beer would help seal the deal.
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DANIELB
What the hell did you say??? Not that it matters. IT'S FUN TIME in BreitFARTia.
A LIKE REPLY 6 hours ago in reply to mohammedX F
MOHAMMEDX
I would be delusionally happy and incoherent too if I just found out I was getting a free phone. Enjoy.
A LIKE REPLY 6 hours ago in reply to DanielB 1 Like F
DANIELB
Seriously an with no malice aforethought, you don't need any help in your delusional incoherence. It comes with your genes ... Keep posting. Got to continue getting my laughs.
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LULUIE
A bunch of idiot Liberals run Califonia. If i could I would leave. Stay away from here, get as far away as you can!
8 of 10
12/10/2012 7:57 PM
Paradise Lost: CA to Provide Free Cell Phones for Homeless
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/10/California-free-ce...
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OLDNYFIREFIGHTER
New York is a little better, but not much!
A LIKE REPLY 4 hours ago in reply to Luluie 1 Like F
MIKE PANTS
The program is nationwide. It's only California that has modernized the program to include cell phones.
A LIKE REPLY 5 hours ago in reply to Luluie 1 Like F
HELEN BACK
Get with the program Mike. Free cell phones have been around for a long time.. CA isn't the first.Obama supporter screams about her “Obama phone” at a rally in Ohio. She tells a reporter, “Keep Obama in president, you know! He gave us a phone, he’s gonna do more.”
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LULUIE
Folks, All I can say is that that my state is stupid. They voted twice for Jerry brown, just like they voted twice for the amateur hour Obama. Take a good long look at California because the rest of country is heading down the same path. My taxes will only go higher. They probably won't get cheap phones either, cause they will be demanding the best phones probably (I -phones), just like they demand their free healthcare and their dream act education. I guess now having a free cell phone is a right. I can't believe this. No one works for anything anymore.
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MERCEDES138
The way the liberal leadership in CA works is that they sell Apple and ATT a huge government contract for phones and service for the homeless, courtesy of the taxpayer, then Jerry Brown, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, etc...invest in ATT and Apple stock.
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MARYVAL99
What is the matter California, you are not digging you grave fast enough?
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JAMES
Social justice theory has no economics behind it... It's all based and judged on intentions.
A LIKE REPLY 5 hours ago in reply to maryval99 4 Likes F
FACETHEMUSIC
This really is a great program! Now they can call their state representatives to ask them where they can find their dignity!
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DIANEWE
Well here we go again? California my state asks to raise taxes and again the majority voted yes? And now we see more waste and fraud in the future. If we could Move we would! This outrageous waste of money of people who work hard, it's simply unexplainable. Whatever you reward you get more of! This state is completely run by Progressive Demonwits.
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MIKE PANTS
It's not paid for with taxes.
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12/10/2012 7:57 PM
Paradise Lost: CA to Provide Free Cell Phones for Homeless
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/10/California-free-ce...
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DIANEWE
It's paid by taxes on Phone bills? Do you think money just appears?
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MIKE PANTS
It’s paid for with a service fee on the phone bill, which is not a tax. If you don’t like it, opt out.
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LEOGUSTAVE
Once again, this is not tax money.
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