Posted on 02/19/2017 2:11:40 AM PST by HomerBohn
It’s 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 that’s 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 Obama’s 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 don’t 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 don’t need the latest iPhone 7 or Galaxy 8 if they can’t afford to buy it themselves. They don’t 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 Obama’s 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 that’s why Trump is going to be repealing it.
These systems are abused too much. If you have a problem with these changes, it’s probably because you are a freeloader!
Pres. Bush signed the law that gave out cell phones to the poor.
Its simply amazing how human beings survived for thousands of years with out them.
God solved the lazy freeloader question long ago. It is called starvation. Starvation is a good thing, it does not need government eradication.
Dittos here. We went to see The Intern when it came out. We are in our 60’s. We were sitting in front of a bunch of teenagers. During the scene of deNiro’s first day on the job, where all the young interns were placing all their electronic devices on their desks (including iPhones), deNiro put a flip phone out. The teenagers behind us started giggling. I pulled out my flip phone, held it up, and opened it.
How about just eliminating all welfare from the central socialist government (due to change under Pres. Trump) and leave it up to the states to dole out basics to the truly needy?
One would have to put a charge of TNT under the pad of a Somali ‘migrunt’. They like to sleep until 10 AM, report for ‘work’ at 11 and clock out at 2PM.
Just ask anyone in Lewiston, Maine where Obama sent hundreds in to be ‘assimilated’ but they dried up the city treasury used to feed their Muslim asses instead.
She says she changed her mind.
They need the smartphones so they can organize their flash mob raids on liquor stores, jewelers, Foot Locker, and weave and fake nail stores.
If they want a phone, let them buy one with their own money like everybody else. Why should slackers and welfare bums get "free" phones paid for with money confiscated from us through our phone bills?
“Just ask anyone in Lewiston, Maine where Obama sent hundreds in to be ‘assimilated’ but they dried up the city treasury used to feed their Muslim asses instead.”
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The Somalis were in Maine long before Obama.
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Wow! So you mean, old thing, that they are in fact indigenous people? There, perhaps, since the Stone Age?
Are you, then, one of them?
Did you major in sarcasm in school?
Silly post.
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Silly old lady
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