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What about those free cellphones for the poor? Why are they called Obama Phones? Actually this program was instituted during the Bush administration. Obama has recently given it emphasis, but if you want to blame someone, blame congress. Well, that's what the Tea Party is currently doing--attacking not only that welfare program, but the many others that we cannot afford.
By the way, the free phones will help politicians stay in touch with the poor, especially during election years. You can bet that the poor will get an earful from Democrats, and maybe even Republicans at election time via mass, recorded political messages disguised as "information" to those free, Government-provided cell phones. They do not have all the privacy protections that the more expensive cell phone plans have.
I recently added a cell phone to my account with my cell phone provider. Immediately, I started getting calls from dozens of bill collectors. I'll bet that one of those deadbeats with a free phone had that number before I got it. The cell phone provider said that they wait several months before they re-issue cell phone numbers...oh well. Anyway, I had to go back to the provider and get a new number. I got better service when I once had a pre-paid cell phone as a second phone during an emergency.
Another problem with providing cell phones (and up to 70 free minutes, which will soon be extended) to the poor is that they keep the air waves flooded most of the time with trivial calls to their many children and grandchildren. Don't count out drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes and those other professionals who inhabit our poverty-stricken communities. If we ever have a disaster, "the poor" won't be able to understand messages to stay off the phone--since most do not understand simple English. In the interest of "cultural diversity," left-wing political activists encourage new immigrants (legal and illegal) to keep their native culture and to resist assimilation. We spend more billions on a bureaucracy called OBEMLA to ensure that they do not assimilate. I would call all this a conspiracy to destroy us, but Americans are better at self-destruction than destruction by our enemies. How else could a Bush or a Carter or an Obama come to occupy the Oval Office?
Come on Tea Party. It may not be too late to save America. We need to not only clean out the Oval Office, but finish the clean-up of Congress and keep reminding congressmen who they are working for.
