GREAT comment at the CBS site...
“So racist whites now want me to recharge my Obama-phone when it run down instead of just throwing it away and getting a new one?”
If you own a cellphone, you pay for the free phones and their wireless plans via a monthly tax on your cellphone called the Universal Service Tax.
We own a couple of pay-as-you go TracFones and we still get charged the fee everytime we buy an airtime card.
We've also learned that the only time you really need a cellphone is when traveling or in the event of a roadside emergency. So the normal situation with my TracFone is to charge it up weekly and put it in the car 'just in case.' Four airtime cards per year = one month's typical cell phone bill . . . and plenty of minutes to use when really needed (traveling) because we use them so rarely the rest of the time.
But it still steams me that we are forced to subsidize the jag-offs using ObamaPhones to make drug deals.