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!
My husband and I ONLY have FlipPhones, and we are paying for these lazyasses to have IPHONES??? OMG!!
They need to investigate all the phony people on “disability” & all those grannies getting paid to watch their own grandkids. A lot of phonies & frauds in those programs. Judge Judy should be made Czar of welfare fraud!
‘Only $1.5 Billion?” Sounds like about $1.5 Billion too much to me.
Shutdown this one program and then ten year savings pays for the $15B wall.
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.
Sorry I just don’t buy this crap.
Pre-paid phones are pretty cheap these days. This program is no longer needed. If it ever was.
EXACTLY!! It was a Giveaway for Obama;s Bros and Sistahs in the hoods!
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.
I would give them free Thunderbird. Lazy folks should get the bad stuff.
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These are phones for O to mobilize his minions. One text away.
Get rid of all. Nobody pays for OUR phones do they? How about a Trump phone? Watch the dems explode.
Hell, junkies and crackheads use ebt like cash..
Many used by low-life drug dealers. Too bad the US doesn’t treat drug dealers like Singapore does. Death!
Worse than that is so many of the same are having all their housing paid by the taxpayers.
We don’t need immigrants to come in and do jobs that “Americans won’t work.” We need these lazy ass freeloaders to get off their behind and off our welfare.
Yeah, right.....
When I was a child I helped out with the handing out of, yes, government cheese, dried beans, rice, etc. Those sort of staples ought to be what is provided to the poor. That seems so simple and obvious to me.
I’m so tired of being behind people at the grocery store who pay for their food with a Lonestar card, then whip out a wad of 20’s big enough to choke a horse and buy their beer. Seen it many times. In this part of the world, it’s always the illegal visitors from south of the border that I see doing it.
Pai was appointed to the FCC board in 2012 and was calling for the investigation in 2016.
Pai was appointed to the FCC board in 2012 and was calling for the investigation in 2016.
Obama was following Cloward-Piven, using every means possible by the government to rack up that cripping $20 Trillion national debt and the massive associated servicing costs that would result from any reasonable prime interest rate.
All of the massive free handouts were by design to maximize debt. None of it was “mishandled”, or “abused” per se. It was all by design. Obama wanted slackers to live high on the hog and consume as much tax money as physically possible.
Why do you think I was terrified of a Hilary presidency? She would have kept it going.
Now Trump is hitting the brakes and being responsible. I give thanks to God daily for the miracle of giving us President Trump and saving us from Hilary’s Reign of Terror.
Obama nearly destroyed us. President Trump came just in time. I pray for his health and that he is not assassinated.
I remember those programs. Typically, the turnout in inner cities was better to vote than to collect free cheese and rice. The neighbors doing the distributing also knew the people who were trying to collect double and told them to beat it. Not anymore.
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