Gee, I'm shocked! /s

Pollack should be called upon to tstify after January 20th.

As it says in the article, TracFone is majority-owned by Carlos Slim, and this program debuted in 2008, while George W. Bush was president.

Credit as usual is not properly attributed; these are DubyaPhones, not Obamaphones.

I'm glum. N-o-o-o-o-body believes in coincidences any more.

[BTW, if I, as President Veritas, were providing "free" phones (laugh uproariously here for as long as necessary), I'd be sure to include some special voice-recognition circuitry. The first circuit would analyze the conversation for inanities. On reaching the programmed inanity threshold, the phone (using a two-piece, metal exterior case that is both durable and electrically-conductive) would emit a 1/10 second burst of sound at about 9KHZ and 120db. It would then use a Taser-based circuit to put a 50,000 volt potential across the two case halves. The second circuit would be programmed to recognize the phrase, "and then she goes...." On recognizing those words, spoken in sequence, a small shaped charge with the explosive gas-jet discharging from the earpiece would be detonated. Yes, some mess is involved, but no plan is perfect. Besides, though both are vast beyond practical comprehension, both the surface of the earth and the electromagnetic spectrum are in fact limited. We must be good stewards.]

The original intent of this now-massive tax payer ripoff was to get 911 responders to entitlement class (people who don't have landlines, because they don't pay their bills.)

Problem is cell phones don't send your physical address to a 911 responder, as does a land line. So, the cell phones just "free stuff", trinkets for obama voters. And also, I have heard that disconnected landlines still dial 911. Is that true?? Anybody know?

I love TracFone. They made a clerical error in the tune of about $1700 in my favor. Now that I know that I'm taking from a Obama supporter makes it even better.

Obamaanything = fraud

Let's all do the Cleveland rant: Obamaphoe! - Romney sux!

He buys votes with our money. And after he finally gets kicked out of the White House we get to keep him and his family living like a king.
Is there nothing we can do to change the way these guys do business?

Thanx #3, for clarifying that it is ALL Bush's fault.

#10, it goes to show that Republicans never get credit for these things from the recipients, only blame. Plus (well deserved) rancor from the right.

Kennedy/Bush "No Child Left Behind?" Bad things about it are Bush's fault. Budget-busting Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit? No credit to W, unlike the Dems' beloved Obamacare, which is rightly saddled with the usurper's name.

#10, It started out only as a 9-1-1- phone, but the poor little "I needs" said that it wasn't fair they could talk to their homies. Now they have virtually unlimited talk, text and data courtesy of those of us who DO pay our bills and taxes.

By law, you can call 911 free from a cell phone. You do not need minues.

You can also call 911 from a disconnected landline. We had our landline disconnected several years ago purposely since all of us had cells that we pay for ourselves, I might add. That said, we still have a dial tone to get an outside line in an emergency and were told that it was only good for emergency calls and could not be used for any other purpose.