We dissagree. I see a scriptural mandate to individuals churches and yes government to each help the poor. I have no problem with the government spending $120 a year for poor people to have a basic necessity like a phone. It's an itty bitty benefit in the great scheme of things. And if it helps 1 in 100 get a job, get off welfare and pay taxes, it pays for itself.
"We are approaching a critical election and you are spending your time here cutting down Romney?'
I like to think I cut down both candidates equally. You're on a conservative web site promoting a GOP labeled liberal. If anyone goes to DU, I believe it should be you.
I don't know what church you go to. I am aware of no “scriptural mandate” for the “government” to “help the poor”. It is counterproductive for the government to help the poor. People are the ones who should help those less fortunate than themselves. When the government “helps the poor” they merely make people feel like they no longer have a responsibility to help their fellow man. They dis-empower those who would otherwise be inclined to do good. That is wrong both scripturally and morally.
Then the “poor” end up feeling like they are entitled to every “itty bitty benefit” that they desire. And who do they thank for all of these “itty bitty” multiple billion dollar benefits... the taxpayers or God? No, they thank Obama.
“I have no problem with the government spending $120 a year for poor people to have a basic necessity like a phone.”
You are seriously deluded my young liberal friend. Food, shelter, and clothing are “basic necessities.” When did a cell phone become a “basic necessity”? They are a convenience and in many cases a nuisance. I know a lot of people who don't own a cell phone and do not feel deprived in any way.
By your standards the approximately half the population who don't pay any federal income tax must be “poor”... After all If they don't have enough money to pay any income tax surely they can't afford a cell phone. So I have a little math problem for you... if you multiply $120 + $50 to administer the program times half the population which is 150 million times 10 years what do you get? You can probably do it on your iPhone... $170 x 150,000,000 x 10 = 255,000,000,000. Math may not be your strongest subject that is an "itty bitty" 255 Billion dollars for that “itty bitty benefit” over just ten years not counting for inflation or the interest the half that do pay taxes are going to have to pay for the increased debt.
"I like to think I cut down both candidates equally."
How sweet of you. You must be very compassionate. It would be hurtful and wrong if you cut down Obama more than Romney wouldn't it? You really are a good boy aren't you. I hear that Obama is quite sensitive to criticism. If you could just sit down and talk with Obama I am sure that you could win him to your way of thinking. Oh I forgot... on the issue of "free cell phones" for the "poor" you are already in agreement. Let's see what do you disagree with him about again?
It DOES NOT MATTER who did what when.
The IMPRESSION this woman has, and wants other black people to have, is that BARACK OBAMA personally packeged the phone up, and sent it to her.
And if Obama doesn’t get reelected, some evil white person is going to come and TAKE that free phone away from her.
Or, worse yet, MAKE HER PAY for part of the cost of it. God Forbid...
While you are playing semantics games, THEY ARE ROBBING US BLIND. Wake up.