Posted on 06/18/2013 5:02:19 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Hidden camera catches wireless company employees passing out 'Obama phones' to people who say they'll SELL them for drugs, shoes, handbags and spending cash...
- The 'Lifeline' free-cell-phone scheme cost $2.2 BILLION last year alone, all of it from fees added to the phone bills of paying customers
- The biggest beneficiary other than low-income consumers is billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, whose TracFone has collected $1.5 BILLION to date
- One company told MailOnline it will fire a salesperson who laughed uproariously when a woman said she would sell her phone to buy shoes
- Conservative firebrand James O'Keefe sent undercover actors to pose as 'Obama phone' seekers aiming to sell the goods; no one turned them down
- Legislation in Congress would remove the cell phone component of the program, which launched in 1984 and covered only land lines until 2008
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Isn’t is funny how Great Britain can do a better job reporting American news, than the American news corporations can?
It’s almost as if the American news corporations are selling a political point of view, like a Government managed news agency. But, that’s just crazy talk.
The American MSM has the ability to sniff out REAL NEWS
like the NSA has the ability to detect and act on
real Islamoterrorist warnings.
Good video, until the hip hop music started. Blaugh.
(1) the elderly and very young who get a cheap phone from WalMart and a $100 service card ~ that'll last a year or more for that very large customer base.
(2) the teenagers and 20 somethings who get an expensive full featured phone from a company owned store and sign on for a $500 a month service plan ~ that could go on indefinitely or until they grow up. Now if they become a sales rep it'll go up. These folks also have all the APs
(3) Everybody else ~ they get a $150 a month service plan and use their cellphone for communication needs!
The Obamaphone companies are using those give away phones to get people signed on to their service plans.
For some reason there continue to be people who imagine the cellphone and its APs are the biggest chunk of the total cost of cellphone service ~ they aren't! My current semi-full featured refurbished 5 year old phone cost me $15 ~ works great. My last phone before that cost $5.
Direct link to investigative video:
Uncovered: 'Obama Phones' Sold to Buy Drugs and Louis Vuittons (direct link to video)
Good point.
Consider, my wife and I both have iPhones with unlimited voice/text and share a dataplan that suits our needs. Our phone bill is in the $150 range.
We have no illusions - our bill subsidizes the phone system that you use. Simply stated, the current phone network could not exist if everyone did as you do. But, we don’t mind. We find the service and userfulness of what we get to be a bargain at this price. We have no problem subsidizing the system, because we all benefit from it.
Then again, we both work; and we pay our bills. We aren’t expecting John Q Public to pay for our food, cell phone, medical and housing such as the folks in this article.
Waiting for SIXTY MINUTES to be all over this scandal...still waiting...still waiting.
Oh wait...SIXTY MINUTES only covers Republican scandals. I forgot about that.
US media on the Obama scandals...sound of crickets.
Original Obamaphone Lady: Obama Voter Says Vote for Obama because he gives a free Phone (video)
This is what MSNBC lauds daily as 'democracy'
What normal people call waste and fraud, Democrats justify as modern day reparations.
If I recall correctly, the obamaphone was born out of a merger between two telco giants. In order for the merger to go through, Obama forced them to start the obamaphone program. Does anyone remember who the merger was between? I think it was AT&T swallowing up someone else (Alltel?)...
Laws are for little people!
I’m still waiting for Letterman to figure out BO Stinks!
What are APs?
I keep a TracFone in my vehicle for emergencies. At home I use a landline because I have no cellular coverage and power outages are frequent and long. Let someone else come up with a plan that equals Slim’s TracFone and he’ll stop getting my $6/mo. to keep my acct active.
Oh, it’s not almost, the American news media is nothing short of a propaganda tool of the left. Make no mistake about it.
Wat Hitler and Goebbels had to threaten the German media into doing, the American media willingly dons their Obama knee pads for.
O'Keefe's great at showcaseing what creeps dems are... Too bad the MSM's in the tank for Liberals - they're missing a lot of great stories.
And yet your typical Leftie flies into ape-shiite hysterics if you so much as even hint that there IS such a thing as the Obamaphone Program.
In power system parlance that makes me part of the base!
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