Posted on 02/19/2017 2:11:40 AM PST by HomerBohn
Its not a secret that many people in America were able to slack off and not put in any effort when Obama was in the White House, but thats all over now.
Ajit Pai is the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and he is telling these lazy Americans that enough is enough. Pai is going to be cutting fraud out of the abused Obamaphone program. The liberals, like this woman, are sure to lose their minds.
(Watch video at link)
Fraud was a beast that ran wild in Obamas America. Welfare, food stamps, and healthcare were vastly overdrawn and taken advantage of by those who refused to get a job and go out and pay for the things they needed.
This has pushed our economy into the gutter and burdened our taxpayers, but with Trump as president and with a Republican dominated government, that is no longer acceptable.
The Obamaphone, for those who dont know, was a program that gave free phones to Americans with low incomes.
This makes a lot of sense phones are a necessary part of our society to receive calls for job interviews and in the case of emergencies, especially since pay phones have all but vanished. It was supposed to be a great boost up for people who are out of work, not a permanent free phone.
But the problem with this program, like many Obama programs, was that it was sloppy. Too many people were able to cheat the system, costing the government and taxpayers millions of dollars. These people in need were not getting simple flip phones but smart phones hot off the presses.
These people dont need the latest iPhone 7 or Galaxy 8 if they cant afford to buy it themselves. They dont need internet access either that is a luxury. If you need internet, go to the library. If you need to print something off, go to Staples.
Chairman Pai has decided to give the program a set budget of $1.5 billion. What a wild idea, right? These expenses should not threaten responsible use of money in the United States.
This is not the only program that was managed poorly under Obamas administration, not even close. Obamacare, which everyone is aware of, was abused by the those who were sick or poor, who got cheap or free healthcare. But it was up to the rest of America to pay for it, and thats why Trump is going to be repealing it.
These systems are abused too much. If you have a problem with these changes, its probably because you are a freeloader!
THANK YOU, President Trump!!!
GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!
Starve the whole welfare beast.
It needs to go.
EBT should be modeled after WIC. Nutritionally sound purchasing only.
Exactly. If you want to help people eat, give them coupons for only real food.
Nothing but milk, no soda, juices, drink mixes.
Fruits and veggies, cheese, inexpensive meat, and baking supplies. No snack foods, chips, nachos, crackers, no pre-made desserts, or bakery items.
NO LOBSTER AND SHRIMP!!!
Only what is nutritionally sound for a well balanced diet for survival.
That's the most I would allow although I am of the opinion that hunger is a great motivator for getting out and getting a real job.
they also use the phones to download music- LOTS OF MUSIC.
A couple of years ago, I got a call from Visa asking if I was purchasing $1500 of iTunes. Nope, I wasn’t but a charge of $500 for iTunes had gone through the day before.
My credit card number had been ‘acquired’ at a gas pump in Atlanta and the criminals were having a buying spree.
I can’t wait until they are cut off. Wait for the riots. Looks what happened in Atlanta when they had a few hundred Section 8 apartments available- $30k showed up for the free housing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOCNoMMJGSs
Every government department gets a budget- Now, chairman of department, come in under budget. Very simple.
That woman lives here in NE ohio and has changed her mind on Obama. That video is old.
Who writes these click bait headlines....?
A 1.5 billion budget is not stopping this freebie program...
Getting a Obama phone should part of a jobs program...get it for 90 days and that’s it...
You can’t find a job in 90 days...reapply.
“We need these lazy ass freeloaders to get off their behind and off our welfare.”
Most of those lazy ass freeloaders aren’t able to do anything useful. They are ignorant, childish and violent which must be why Obama’s administration was busily bringing in more of them.
Amen..... shut it down to $0
The alarm clocks will wake folks up so they are not late for work.
HOORAY Ajit Pai
HOORAY President Trump
So have I. A flip phone with no contract, prepaid, entails buying a prepaid $20 every 3 months, or around $7 a month, which is about the price of a pack of cigarettes. The phone itself will cost around $15.
No telling how many Obama phones that we are paying for that are buried in landfills because the owner wanted to destroy evidence. Yet the service to the phone has never been terminated. The owner had multiple Obama phones so the loss of one was no problem. Service to all Obama phones should automatically terminate every 90 days and they should have to reapply. I have to work to pay for their phone, they should have to do something to keep it. Obama phones should be flip phones with 200 minutes per month max. After the limit, you lose service until the next month.
At a minimum.
But then again, Tracfones are not that expensive and they can buy them with their own money.
Wow. I was not aware of this program.
I have an iPhone now but i have only had a smartphone for a few years.
I have wondered at the proliferation of cellphones among people that sometimes don’t look like they can afford them.
Hey,what’s the price; thirty twice!
let them have a hardwired phone in their house. Internet just gives them the opportunity to organize riots.
The fat needs trimming off of EBT as well. No junk food, gourmet foods... etc...
EBT should be modeled after WIC. Nutritionally sound purchasing only.
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Set up EBT stores where they can take out basic staples. NO CASH EVER.
Obamaphones should disappear - no exceptions. I lived most of my life without a cell phone, and so can those unwilling or unable to pay for one. No one has a right to consumer products paid for by working Americans.
If it’s being REDUCED to 1.5 billion what the heck was it before it was reduced? I can buy me a lotta Iphones for 1.5 billion!
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