Vampires and parasites getting more "free blood" from their victims.

Article attempts to make the point that Øbamaphones predate Øbama. We could call the Gorephones but Øbamaphone has a nicer ring - so to speak.

I live next to North Charleston. The lines were long, but not surprisingly so. Notice that the "up front" interviewee who got the photo in the article was a 28-year-old white man. Look closer at the line behind him -- see any more 28-year-old white men? ... Yeah.

Islandian

Low income? Try skid row bum.

FTA Recipients of the free phones .....are required to show photo identification, as well as proof of federal or state government assistance, such as Medicaid or Section 8 housing."

You know, why do they have to show their gov´t assistance? In a just society,if you´re already receiving housing and food from the gov´t, why should you get a phone, too?

Exactly, #3. Just like when the media publishes pics of the Pro Life marches, they only show pics of senior citizens, never to post pics of the majority of marchers who are under age 25.

The usual lib fraud. Cherry-pick a supposedly deserving victim and then let all the deadbeats pile in behind.

These phones cost the taxpayers with landlines and cell phones 1.5 billion dollars a year. we live in WA. state, nearly 40% of our phone bill goes to support this program.

They interviewed the poor white guy because he didn´t speak ebonics. Nome sane ?

So, they have to show I.d. For a free phone, but no I.d. To vote? What´s wrong with this picture?

#9, not just any ID will do; it must be a food stamp card, or something showing that you´re getting some form of government assistance. In other words, you MUST be on the dole to qualify for one of these phones.

And that´s what sickens me about the whole thing. It´s as if the current administration wants to get so many people dependent on the government that they´ll be able to "lock in" the constituency; nobody would dare vote their meal ticket out of office.

If they really wanted to help the people then they´d create a business climate which helps create JOBS, not more handouts.

The statement, "It started with........but was expanded..", is the story of every government program. Which is why we find our nation in the financial condition we see today.

And it´s like wiping your arse with a wagon wheel; there is no end to it!

Anyone receiving Obamaphones must forfeit their voting privileges until they can show they are paying for their own phone.

I believe that those of us that are paying this imposed fee for this program should deduct it from what we pay the phone company. It would drive the phone companies nuts. They will not want to stop your service over a few dollars a month but then again they will not want to pay for it themselves.

This article has so many tear-jerking stories loaded into it. First, they all need their phones so they can get calls for job offers. Then there are the poor souls who have to keep in touch with far-flung relatives they haven´t talked to in years.

Get a job and pay for your own phone.

Virgin Mobile has a plan, no contract, of 1500 minutes and 500 texts (I think, I don´t text) for $30 + tax a month. I dumped my expensive land line and other cell phone carrier (with contract). So for just under $33/month I am not contributing to free phones for freaky phonies. Yeah me, and Virgin Mobile. No, never worked for them. At the time, about a year ago, it was the cheapest I could find.

http://www.freegovernmentcellphones.net/

this is the website with all the info
explaining the program and how to determine if you qualify