Life Line program wants more money

[Twitchin Kitten]

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FCC Wants $25 Million for Cell Phone Subsidy Program 'Fraught with Fraud' <-- click for story

You know, my cell bill is not cheap. I was wondering why the prices had all these federal fees built in and I know I was paying for some shit or another but not to this extent. We work hard for the luxuries we have and although I can understand having such a program, how can it be so mismanaged when the solution is so fucking easy?

Limit usage to calling only. NO texts, no data plans.
Only give out phones that do not depend on SIM cards like Verizon and AT&T does.

Make it so when you upgrade your phone you turn it in and these are the phones used to hand out. NO SMART PHONES! Simple, basic crap phones.

Anyone with a free phone gets only one and if it breaks, they must turn it in and replace it with another crap phone.

How fucking hard is this?

They're getting free cable, phones and internet.
I grew up poor and we had nothing like this. Getting a house full of food was a luxury.

[Twilla]

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Excuse the bad language but why the FUCK do they need broadband internet access? I pay $80 a month for my stupid phone and another $50 for DSL and they get this shit for FREE?!?

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Yep. Being poor in this country seems to be more lucrative than going to work and earning your keep. How can a poor person afford a computer anyway?

They're taking all these free phones and selling them too. Multiple phones per person and all kinds of freebies I pay for through taxes and fees on the same services I have to pay for.

I'm not so cruel as to say cut off help for the poor. No one should starve and no one should freeze to death on the streets, but this is bullshit.

[Twilla]

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Think of the educational and health programs for the poor that could benefit from this money? Who comes up with this shit?

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Big government, bleeding heart liberals.

Libraries have free internet. Go there. Schools have it too. Stay after school and do your homework.
The need to call 911 is legitimate but to allow full on freeloading is ridiculous.

[Gunnen4u]

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There isn't much to point out that isn't already obvious, but we live in 21st century America, where everyone is entitled to something.

That cell phones would not escape that sense of needed entitlement isn't surprising to me. I am sure politicians love it though, as well as the gov't administrators and other middlemen getting paid to do all this, along with the voters bought by handing out subsidies.

We literally are living in a Banana republic.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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You know, my mom worked in the projects and in the early 70's and throughout the 80's you can see that the "poor" were making a great living on the gov't tit. Working for the city didn't yield her much money in salary, but the benefits of a union job helped her keep food on the table, medical and dental bills paid and a good retirement for her. We barely had enough money to survive on the gov't salary she had. As the 90's approached, her salary got better.

What I did notice though, those "poor" people were wearing an awful lot of gold jewelry, had lots of nice new clothes and the latest toys and gadgets where we had to struggle for a full load of food in the house and crap clothes from Kmart.

I know a good deal of this shit is due to lazy gov't workers in the welfare department. They just never bother to check up on things, cross check paperwork, how much one family is scamming the system etc. Why should they? They have a secure job and are never held accountable. The buck is too easy to pass on to someone else too.

My mom would do her level best to be upright, honest and not allow the scammers to get by with cheating the system for a free roof over their head, but somewhere, somehow, someone overrode her good efforts Then there was the big scandal where her bosses got caught embezzling the housing authority. Lovely isn't it?

[Biker Dude]

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I do have a few stories. for a couple of years I worked for the second largest housing authority in Denver.

[Gunnen4u]

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I have a friend who worked for a welfare office. I can relay the story of "Dolphin Head Man" sometime. I have it saved on my computer somewhere.

Poor people make poor decisions usually, that is why rather than use it to any great benefit, if the money keeps coming in, they will spend it on junk and shiny stuff and other things that attract their attention.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Oh they eat good too. Had pets when welfare and housing prohibit it and you should have seen some of the apartments. Drug dealing is a lucrative career.

Mom would tell stories of these cretins throwing their refrigerator down the elevator shaft, sofas anything to cause problems for maintenance.

By the mid 90's NYCHA did clean up it's slag and started weeding out the problem tenants and acceptance applications and references had to be filled out and checked before getting an apartment. Mom started out as the rent collector (bookkeeper) and then moved up to management. She made sure background checks and stuff got done in her project. She worked in some of the worst ones before settling down in "a pretty bad one" on Staten Island. She had a lot of good tenants during the bad times though and she just got frustrated with having to listen to them tell tales of violence and break ins and living in fear. She did find it very hard to do her job when nearly everyone around her were lazy do-nothings.