CA to give free cell phones to homeless

[ShootSpeeders]

Where are they going to charge their new cell phones?

library

 

[gallantwarrior]

I've never used a cell phone in my life but democrats have decided you HAVE to have one and they're gonna make working people provide them for the bums.

Paradise Lost: CA to Provide Free Cell Phones for Homeless

by BREITBART NEWS 10 Dec 2012
In California, the unemployment rate may be above 10.2%, and the state debt may be above $16 billion, the state’s GDP may be in serious trouble and businesses may be leaving in droves due to ever-increasing tax rates, but that isn’t going to stop the gravy train for the state’s poor and dispossessed. The California Public Utilities Commission is all set to greenlight a new program that would give homeless and low-income people free cell phones – call them Obamaphones – with free service. The idea is to help them reach out to possible job opportunities and stay connected with family.

The state has funded phones for the poor for years, but they were always hardline phones, not cell phones. The new program will give beneficiaries some 250 minutes of time and 250 free text messages every month.

Here's the biggest problem with this scheme...they are NOT free! Someone else is paying for them. This is what I despise about the progressive "free" mentality. If they cannot or will not afford such luxuries themselves, they don't have them. Period.

 

[gallantwarrior]

California just voted to raise it's own sales and income tax. It's either beyond corrupt or people are beyond stupid. But California is full of crazies.

And the money was supposed to go to the schools not the homeless. Dumbest state run by democrats for 40 years.

Can I pick choice 'C', all of the above?

 

[GoneBezerk]

Well...when you're bankrupt and need to keep stealing money from the rich and companies to keep the lights on....I guess that means spend more money on free cell phones....insane.

 

[Harry Dresden]

California just voted to raise it's own sales and income tax. It's either beyond corrupt or people are beyond stupid. But California is full of crazies.

And the money was supposed to go to the schools not the homeless. Dumbest state run by democrats for 40 years.

But California is full of crazies.

it never used to be until all you people from other States started moving here.....now look at it.....

 

[gallantwarrior]

Government Subsidized Cell Phones To Be Offered To California's Poor And Homeless
A controversial program offering low cost cell phone service for homeless people may be headed to the Golden State.

The LifeLine cell phone program, already being provided by mobile carrier Assurance Wireless in 36 other states, is part of a national effort to expand expand telecommunications access to all Americans--even those living on the street.

"This is great--it is transformative for homeless and low-income people," San Francisco's "homeless czar" Bevan Dufty told the San Francisco Chronicle, noting that the phones could help the city's homeless call into the 311 information line that provides information about available shelter beds. "Fundamentally, to be in the mainstream of our society you have to have a phone...We really need this plan."

Participants in the program will only have to shell out $20 for a cell phone and pay ten cents a minute after 250 monthly minutes of free talk time. That initial payment will be refunded as a credit to pay for any overages. All Californians earning under $14,000 per year are eligible to participate.

Oh, great! A "free" cell phone to call a special number to find out where more "free" shit it to be found.

 

[Harry Dresden]

A hard line phone is not much use to someone who is homeless [no home]. Cell phones make sense.

Wouldn't it make more sense in the Californian way of thinking to just give every
homeless person a home?....

Oh wait.... I am sure Mayor Moonbeam is working on that now...

Mayor?....

 

[gallantwarrior]

California just voted to raise it's own sales and income tax. It's either beyond corrupt or people are beyond stupid. But California is full of crazies.

And the money was supposed to go to the schools not the homeless. Dumbest state run by democrats for 40 years.

But California is full of crazies.

it never used to be until all you people from other States started moving here.....now look at it.....

But the climate is just so fine!