Insanity: 1 million Ohioans using free phone program

Is it any wonder that empty-suited, anti-American racist bigot is even within 20 or Romney?  He's buying votes with OUR money!

I believe that if you smoke, drink, use drugs, have a cell phone, computer, internet or cable TV, you should be disqualified from Welfare or any welfare program like food stamps.  After all, why should my tax dollars go to subsidize your life style choices?

Obama supporters believe just the opposition, given that none of the above amounts to a disqualifying condition from receiving these tens of billions of dollars a year.

Who, for example, has seen the insanity of "Obama phone lady?"



Here's a video explaining the requirements to qualify for one of these phone rip offs.



I am, apparently, the only person in America who doesn't qualify for this theft.

Added to that is this report:

 Posted: 3:52 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, 2012

1 million Ohioans using free phone program
Fees on phone bills pay for $1.5 billion national Lifeline program

A program that provides subsidized phone service to low-income individuals has nearly doubled in size in Ohio in the past year — now covering more than a million people. At the same time, federal officials say they’re reining in waste, fraud and abuse in the program.

The Federal Communications Commission announced recently that reforms have saved $43 million since January and are expected to save $200 million by year’s end. In Ohio, savings are expected to be $2.9 million a year.

The savings were realized in part because the government gave out fewer cellphones to ineligible people and took steps to avoid issuing duplicate phones.

But the size of the program in the state — and profits to the increasing number of cellphone companies involved — has exploded in recent months, according to a Dayton Daily News analysis of program data.

The program in Ohio cost $26.9 million in the first quarter of 2012, the most recent data available, versus $15.6 million in the same timeframe in 2011. Compared to the first quarter of 2011, the number of people in the program nearly doubled to more than a million.

Growth could cost everyone who owns a phone. The program is funded through the “Universal Service Fund” charge on phone bills — usually a dollar or two per bill — and the amount of the fee is determined by the cost of this and other programs.

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The total for this rip off is $1.5 BILLION.

With a "B".  It's the kind of program leftists love, but to quote the local Pravda Izvestia, the arguments for it "are not persuasive."