Obama cancel your cell phones and cable if you cant pay for Obamacare

[jon_berzerk]

You cant turn my words into anything then they are already.

All those who do have cable TV and don't have health care insurance while expecting from me to pay for it saying exactly that: MEEEEEEE!

Then you agree with Obama, those people should give those things up for health insurance.

Good for you, you're making progress.

Now, don't go off and kill yourself that you agreed with Obama on something. I know you'll probably have your membership card revoked, but you're better off now that you've figured out how to use at least a portion of your brain for critical thought.

I agree that people should prioritize.

Before Obamacare fraud, people had choice to prioritize, now they got no choice, they are forced to get healthcare.

yes under the threat of penalty for breaking the kings law

obama should have pointed that out

 

[jon_berzerk]

no it isnt you moron; and you can get as many of them as you want. i know one lady from the Bronx who has four of them. they arent checking

ur a loser who doesnt know what is going on out there

I quoted you the law now your saying it isn't law ... now we all know who the stupid one is and that would be you say hi to the CLown at mickey "D's" the tax pay doesn't pay for any of those 4 free phones ... the phone company does ... do some fucking research

you're too stupid for words; who do you think the cost gets passed on to then you mindless moron?
take an economics class; leave mommy's basement loser

it is the customers of the communication companies who pay the bill for it

Skippy skyrocket provided that answer unwittingly in his prior link

from his source

The companies often charge customers to fund their contributions in the form of a universal service fee you might see on your monthly phone bill.

 

[jon_berzerk]

i do realize you're a pathetic lemming and useful idiot making excuse after excuse for a failed president

Translation= I was right and you were wrong ... once again you have shown us how ignorant you are ... we get it !!

YAWN'
left-wing losers are immune to their own stupidiy; you arent man enough to admit you're wrong
the program cost billions; and you're pretending it's free

you look stupid

look ?

--LOL

 

[jon_berzerk]

I quoted you the law now your saying it isn't law ... now we all know who the stupid one is and that would be you say hi to the CLown at mickey "D's" the tax pay doesn't pay for any of those 4 free phones ... the phone company does ... do some fucking research

you're too stupid for words; who do you think the cost gets passed on to then you mindless moron?
take an economics class; leave mommy's basement loser

did you read anything you mindless twit ??? the phone company gives thme a phone ... thyeir income has to be around 15000 a yearfor one person and 30,000 dollars of a family of four .... the phone company gives them it not the tax payer... the phone company said they give them 1 hour a month of cell time a month ... not 200 minutes as you said ... why do you keep lying so much either you are a liar or you're dirt stupid

the phone company gives them it

who charge their patrons to fund it

that is what your link states

 

[jon_berzerk]

heres more of your lies bedowin62 View Post that you didn't read from your own source and call me a idiot ????


BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhAhA now thats funny loser

Have you heard this one? THE OBAMAPHONE

Actually in the state of Wisconsin it is 250 minutes of Free Air Time and they are running TV ads promoting it. No Bull

Just when you think you've heard it all,, our illustrious Congress quietly comes up with a new zinger to put their hands in your pockets, and pick them while you aren’t watching.

Isn't this just wonderful!

I was standing in line at the checkout counter at Wal Mart and as I looked at the line behind me, I saw a couple of people talking about what looked like identical new cell phones, bragging about the fact that their phones were free and so was the airtime.

The woman in line behind me had heard the same exchange and turned to the young man behind her and asked, "Is that a new type of cell phone?"

The young man replied, "Yes, this is my new 'Obama phone'".

She asked him what an "Obama phone" was, and he went on to say that, "Welfare recipients are now eligible to receive" what he described as (1) a FREE new cell phone, and (2) approximately 70 FREE minutes of air time every month.

Needless to say, I was a little skeptical about his answer, so when I got back home, I 'Googled' it, and lo and behold, he was telling the truth.

This was what I discovered:

SafeLink Wireless is a government supported program that provides a free cell phone and airtime each month for income-eligible customers.

In other words, your tax dollars are being distributed to a wireless phone provider to provide welfare recipients with free cell phones and airtime.

I don't know about you, but as for me, enough is enough. We are $14 Trillion in debt, Congress is balking at continuing unemployment payments to those who want to work, and Congress is increasing the dole-out to dead beats.

The ship of State is sinking, and it's sinking fast. The old concept of getting ahead through hard work has flown out the window. It has been replaced by Obama's and Congress' idea of "Hope and Change." The country has changed all right, changed to "Why should I work for it, when I can get it for free?"

[Collected via e-mail, October 2009]

Here's another Obama program that we taxpayers are footing the bill for.

I had a former employee call me earlier today inquiring about a job, and at the end of the conversation he gave me his phone number. I asked the former employee if this was a new cell phone number and he told me yes this was his "Obama phone." I asked him what an "Obama phone" was and he went on to say that welfare recipients are now eligible to receive (1) a FREE new phone and (2) approx 70 minutes of FREE minutes every month. I was a little skeptical so I Googled it and low and behold he was telling the truth. TAX PAYER MONEY IS BEING REDISTRIBUTED TO WELFARE RECIPIENTS FOR FREE CELL PHONES. This program was started earlier this year. Enough is enough, the ship is sinking and it's sinking fast. The very foundations that this country was built on are being shaken. The age old concepts of God, family, and hard work have flown out the window and are being replaced with "Hope and Change" and "Change we can believe in."


Origins: Imagine for a moment what your life would be like without a phone, corded or wireless. How would you contact emergency services if there was a fire or a serious injury? How would you contact a potential new employer, or keep in touch with a current one? How would you contact your utility company about a power outage, or a doctor about your sick child? How would you keep in touch with your loved ones and your community? In this day and age, telecommunications services are a real necessity, and not being able to afford them is a real liability.

Those types of questions prompted the Federal Communication Commission to implement the Lifeline benefit program for income-eligible consumers in 1984. That program had two parts: Lifeline Assistance, which
provided discounts on basic monthly landline telephone service at the primary residence of qualified telephone subscribers, and Lifeline Link-Up, which provided discounts on the initial installation fee for landline telephone service at the primary residence of qualified telephone subscribers.

As cell phone usage has increased and cell phone service fees have dropped, the Lifeline program has been expanded to include wireless technology. Prepaid cell phone companies have spun off government-approved subsidiaries (such as Safelink Wireless, Assurance Wireless, and Reachout Wireless) to specialize in providing Lifelife-covered telephone services to qualifying participants.

From that basic framework, rumors like the ones encapsulated in the Examples cited above have circulated, claiming that "the Obama administration created a program to give free cell phones paid for by taxpayer money to welfare recipients." All the elements of such statements are erroneous or exaggerated:

* The Lifeline program originated in 1984, during the administration of Ronald Reagan; it was expanded in 1996, during the administration of Bill Clinton; and its first cellular provider service (SafeLink Wireless) was launched by TracFone in 2008, during the administration of George W. Bush. All of these milestones were passed prior to the advent of the Obama administration.

* The Lifeline program only covers monthly discounts on landline or wireless telephone service for eligible consumers. It does not pay cellular companies to provide free cell phones to consumers, although some cellular service providers choose to offer that benefit to their Lifeline customers.

* Lifeline discounts are not available only to "welfare recipients" — these programs are implemented at both the state and federal levels, so qualification criteria can vary from state to state, but in general participants must have an income that is at or below 135% of the federal Poverty Guidelines, or take part in at least one of the following federal assistance programs:
o Medicaid;
o Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Food Stamps or SNAP);
o Supplemental Security Income (SSI);
o Federal Public Housing Assistance (Section 8);
o Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP);
o Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF);
o National School Lunch Program's Free Lunch Program;
o Bureau of Indian Affairs General Assistance;
o Tribally-Administered Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TTANF);
o Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR);
o Head Start (if income eligibility criteria are met); or
o State assistance programs (if applicable).

* The Lifeline program is not directly subsidized by taxpayer monies. It is paid for out of the federal Universal Service Fund (USF) through a fee assessed against telecommunications service providers, who may or may not pass those costs along to their customers:
All telecommunications service providers and certain other providers of telecommunications must contribute to the federal USF based on a percentage of their interstate and international end-user telecommunications revenues. These companies include wireline phone companies, wireless phone companies, paging service companies and certain Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers.

Some consumers may notice a “Universal Service” line item on their telephone bills. This line item appears when a company chooses to recover its USF contributions directly from its customers by billing them this charge. The FCC does not require this charge to be passed on to customers. Each company makes a business decision about whether and how to assess charges to recover its Universal Service costs. These charges usually appear as a percentage of the consumer’s phone bill. Companies that choose to collect Universal Service fees from their customers cannot collect an amount that exceeds their contribution to the USF. They also cannot collect any fees from a Lifeline program participant.

The costs of administering the Lifeline program have increased greatly with the move towards cellular telephone services, leading the FCC to approve a comprehensive overhaul of the program in January 2012 intended to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.

A number of web sites touting Lifeline benefits and imitating the look of government web sites have sprung up on the Internet, but those sites are privately operated ones created to promote the sales of cellular services and have no official connection to the federal government or the current presidential administration:
By 2010, Virgin Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, i-Wireless, Head Start, Consumer Cellular, Midwestern Telecom, Allied Wireless, and others had free phone plans. That's why you can find all these "free cell phone" websites that look kind of shady, like Obamaphone.net or FreeGovernmentCellPhones.net. In 2011, the FCC said that these carriers were "fiercely competing for the business of low-income consumers by marketing ‘free’ phones." TracFone spokesman Jose Fuentes [said], "We’ve had a lot of fly-by-night companies come in." Fuentes estimated that more than 1,700 wireless companies were part of Lifeline. Between 2008 and 2012, the number of people with Lifeline phones grew from 7.1 million to 12.5 million. These companies may be fly-by-night at providing cell phone service, but they are pretty good at marketing, and as the rush of merchandise tied to his inauguration showed, Obama's name seems to move product.

Read more at snopes.com: Free 'ObamaPhones' for Welfare Recipients

consumers may notice a “Universal Service” line item on their telephone bills. This line item appears when a company chooses to recover its USF contributions directly from its customers

 

[Plasmaball]

Yet we give free cell phones for low income .. He tells the middle class to give up stuff for his agenda and we are giving people free the stuff he told us to give up. How is this fair ??Obamacare's too expensive for ya? Cancel your cable, peasant! | The Daily Caller

easy, you can choose to ignore his advice. See what its like thinking like an adult and not like a 3 year old all the time Bear? You should try it sometime.

 

[Plasmaball]

when political leaders like Obama are full of bullshit it's pretty tough NOT to post on bullshit...

Not the point at all.

The bullshit point is not what the POTUS does; the bullshit point is the OP misrepresenting what the POTUS does.

This is why certain posters here have no credibility; they lie, misrepresent and just plain make shit up. Then any grain of truth they might have been able to make in their argument is lost as coming from an unreliable source.

From the OP about Obama's town hall meeting in which he took phone calls:

He suggested that some families may be spending too much on cable television or cell phones, and not enough on health insurance.

And this:

Update: The feedback I’m getting indicates that some people don’t quite understand what Obama is doing here. Please note that this caller didn’t say anything about cable TV or cellphones. He just said he can’t afford Obamcare. Obama is the one who’s suggesting that this guy is wasting his money on luxuries, based on no evidence at all. He’s deflecting the criticism back on the critic. It’s a cheap trick, but it works.

He’s doing what he always does: Blaming everybody but himself. Don’t fall for it.

He assumed that people are wasting money on things they don't need.

trust me when i say you dont need the internet.

 

[billyerock1991]

Yet we give free cell phones for low income .. He tells the middle class to give up stuff for his agenda and we are giving people free the stuff he told us to give up. How is this fair ??Obamacare's too expensive for ya? Cancel your cable, peasant! | The Daily Caller

as always you right wing nut jobs distort every thing that is said ... he clearly said if you can't afford you health care how about cutting back on your cell phone and your cable ...he didn't say cancel your cell phone cancel you cable ... why is it your right wing nut jobs have to distort everything that is said by the left ... are you soooooooo desperate to win a debate that you have to distort what is being said

Cutting back is the same as cutting off.

Obama lies so much that you can't get him to be frank.

Cutting back is a nice way of saying "you don't need the things that technology allows us to have". At one time cells were a luxury item. Now 8 year olds have them. Eventually this ass is going to say that air-conditioning is a luxury you po-folks can't afford, thanks to my destructive energy policies.

are your this stupid ???? wait its mudpakker you are this stupid ... cutting back is saying you can use another plan that doesn't cost as much you dumb fuck ...

 

[billyerock1991]

Read my post again.

Btw, using some punctuations could help...

no !!!! I fine with what I write ... if you don't like how its written then don't read it ...

Read my post again. Whole thing, don't stop after first sentence "Nobody is distorting anything". There is more.

Btw, I don't like way you write. It's an insult to English grammar. If I don't reply, there will be just more insults added. I know you're proud now but... someday you'll find yourself, and will you be disappointed.

I don't give a fuck if you don't like the way I write ... if you don't like it don't read it, dumb fuck!!!!!

you are distorting every thing that is written... it clearly says "OBama canceled your phone and cable if you can't pay for obama care, you dumb fuck ... thats not what he said ... that's not what he implied,. you dumb fuck !!!!! ... Obama didn't implied that he wants you to cancel these, things you dumb fuck did ...

 

[billyerock1991]

you're too stupid for words; who do you think the cost gets passed on to then you mindless moron?
take an economics class; leave mommy's basement loser

Economics? How about English class first?

I do love the way he butchers the English language.

you would know proper grammar if your life depended on it !!!! when you ass holes can't refute a post, you go for spelling and grammar ... I haven't mispelled anything .. I haven't use any improper grammar ... but you love to think i did ... go fuck yourself SJ the boards loser ...

 

[billyerock1991]

i do realize you're a pathetic lemming and useful idiot making excuse after excuse for a failed president

Translation= I was right and you were wrong ... once again you have shown us how ignorant you are ... we get it !!

YAWN'
left-wing losers are immune to their own stupidiy; you arent man enough to admit you're wrong
the program cost billions; and you're pretending it's free

you look stupid

prove it cost the tax payer billions loser ... you can't ... why ??? cause you're dirt stupid ... you look even stupider ... you have no Idea what you're talking about ... you're making a fool of your self!!!!

 

[S.J.]

Economics? How about English class first?

I do love the way he butchers the English language.

you would know proper grammar if your life depended on it !!!! when you ass holes can't refute a post, you go for spelling and grammar ... I haven't mispelled anything .. I haven't use any improper grammar ... but you love to think i did ... go fuck yourself SJ the boards loser ...

OMG, this is hilarious. You misspelled "mispell"! (along with 5 other grammatical mistakes). What a fucking idiot!!! You are every bit as stupid as you look. ROFL!

 

[Two Thumbs]

Yet we give free cell phones for low income .. He tells the middle class to give up stuff for his agenda and we are giving people free the stuff he told us to give up. How is this fair ??Obamacare's too expensive for ya? Cancel your cable, peasant! | The Daily Caller

 

[billyerock1991]

so who is paying for it then you idiot? are you saying it has no cost?

do some fucking research for once in your miserable life ... oh wait I'll do it for you loser...

Q: Has the Obama administration started a program to use "taxpayer money" to give free cell phones to welfare recipients?
A: No... Low-income households have been eligible for discounted telephone service for more than a decade. But the program is funded by telecom companies, not by taxes, and the president has nothing to do with it.
FULL QUESTION
Is this e-mail true?
I had a former employee call me earlier today inquiring about a job, and at the end of the conversation he gave me his phone number. I asked the former employee if this was a new cell phone number and he told me yes this was his "Obama phone."



FULL ANSWER
Welfare recipients, and others, can receive a free cell phone, but the program is not funded by the government or taxpayer money, as the e-mail alleges. And it’s hardly new.
How It Works
SafeLink Wireless, the program mentioned in the e-mail, does indeed offer a cell phone, about one hour’s worth of calling time per month, and other wireless services like voice mail to eligible low-income households. Applicants have to apply and prove that they are either receiving certain types of government benefits, such as Medicaid, or have household incomes at or below 135 percent of the poverty line. Using 2009 poverty guidelines, that’s $14,620 for an individual and a little under $30,000 for a family of four, with slightly higher amounts for Alaska and Hawaii.
SafeLink is run by a subsidiary of América Móvil, the world’s fourth largest wireless company in terms of subscribers, but it is not paid for directly by the company. Nor is it paid for with "tax payer money," as the e-mail claims. Rather, it is funded through the Universal Service Fund, which is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company, an independent, not-for-profit corporation set up by the Federal Communications Commission. The USF is sustained by contributions from telecommunications companies such as "long distance companies, local telephone companies, wireless telephone companies, paging companies, and payphone providers." The companies often charge customers to fund their contributions in the form of a universal service fee you might see on your monthly phone bill. The fund is then parceled out to companies, such as América Móvil, that create programs, such as SafeLink, to provide telecommunications service to rural areas and low-income households.


And you wonder why we call you right wing nuts morons???

you might want to read your own link moron

and you will discover that the customer of the various companies pay for tab

for the free phones

The companies often charge customers to fund their contributions in the form of a universal service fee you might see on your monthly phone bill.

no they don't ... the company gets a tax write off ... the tax payer doersn't pay for that ... its just like you ass holes repub-lie-tards who squeaks out a baby and want all the other tax payers pay for your fucking around to have children .... why should I have to pay for you to squeak out some baby out of some womans pussy ??? you get to write it off ??? you should pay for all of your fucking kids ... not me ... you should be responsible for every kid that you you squeak out ... you got a lot of nerve complaining over some poor person getting a phone with 1 hour service for the mouth service .... you got a lot of nerve to complain over 1 hour service when I have to pay for your fucking around for the nest 26 years ... where you want to complain about a 1 hour a month phone ??? you've got a lot nerve ...ass hole

 

[Amelia]

I do love the way he butchers the English language.

you would know proper grammar if your life depended on it !!!! when you ass holes can't refute a post, you go for spelling and grammar ... I haven't mispelled anything .. I haven't use any improper grammar ... but you love to think i did ... go fuck yourself SJ the boards loser ...

OMG, this is hilarious. You misspelled "mispell"! (along with 5 other grammatical mistakes). What a fucking idiot!!! You are every bit as stupid as you look. ROFL!

 

[billyerock1991]

I quoted you the law now your saying it isn't law ... now we all know who the stupid one is and that would be you say hi to the CLown at mickey "D's" the tax pay doesn't pay for any of those 4 free phones ... the phone company does ... do some fucking research

you're too stupid for words; who do you think the cost gets passed on to then you mindless moron?
take an economics class; leave mommy's basement loser

it is the customers of the communication companies who pay the bill for it

Skippy skyrocket provided that answer unwittingly in his prior link

from his source

The companies often charge customers to fund their contributions in the form of a universal service fee you might see on your monthly phone bill.

dumb fuck !!!!!you all said you were all taxed for it... I said you weren't taxed for it and you are not taxed for it ... you weren't taxed for it so pull your head out of your dumb fuck ass

 

[billyerock1991]

heres more of your lies bedowin62 View Post that you didn't read from your own source and call me a idiot ????


BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhAhA now thats funny loser

Have you heard this one? THE OBAMAPHONE

Actually in the state of Wisconsin it is 250 minutes of Free Air Time and they are running TV ads promoting it. No Bull

Just when you think you've heard it all,, our illustrious Congress quietly comes up with a new zinger to put their hands in your pockets, and pick them while you aren’t watching.

Isn't this just wonderful!

I was standing in line at the checkout counter at Wal Mart and as I looked at the line behind me, I saw a couple of people talking about what looked like identical new cell phones, bragging about the fact that their phones were free and so was the airtime.

The woman in line behind me had heard the same exchange and turned to the young man behind her and asked, "Is that a new type of cell phone?"

The young man replied, "Yes, this is my new 'Obama phone'".

She asked him what an "Obama phone" was, and he went on to say that, "Welfare recipients are now eligible to receive" what he described as (1) a FREE new cell phone, and (2) approximately 70 FREE minutes of air time every month.

Needless to say, I was a little skeptical about his answer, so when I got back home, I 'Googled' it, and lo and behold, he was telling the truth.

This was what I discovered:

SafeLink Wireless is a government supported program that provides a free cell phone and airtime each month for income-eligible customers.

In other words, your tax dollars are being distributed to a wireless phone provider to provide welfare recipients with free cell phones and airtime.

I don't know about you, but as for me, enough is enough. We are $14 Trillion in debt, Congress is balking at continuing unemployment payments to those who want to work, and Congress is increasing the dole-out to dead beats.

The ship of State is sinking, and it's sinking fast. The old concept of getting ahead through hard work has flown out the window. It has been replaced by Obama's and Congress' idea of "Hope and Change." The country has changed all right, changed to "Why should I work for it, when I can get it for free?"

[Collected via e-mail, October 2009]

Here's another Obama program that we taxpayers are footing the bill for.

I had a former employee call me earlier today inquiring about a job, and at the end of the conversation he gave me his phone number. I asked the former employee if this was a new cell phone number and he told me yes this was his "Obama phone." I asked him what an "Obama phone" was and he went on to say that welfare recipients are now eligible to receive (1) a FREE new phone and (2) approx 70 minutes of FREE minutes every month. I was a little skeptical so I Googled it and low and behold he was telling the truth. TAX PAYER MONEY IS BEING REDISTRIBUTED TO WELFARE RECIPIENTS FOR FREE CELL PHONES. This program was started earlier this year. Enough is enough, the ship is sinking and it's sinking fast. The very foundations that this country was built on are being shaken. The age old concepts of God, family, and hard work have flown out the window and are being replaced with "Hope and Change" and "Change we can believe in."


Origins: Imagine for a moment what your life would be like without a phone, corded or wireless. How would you contact emergency services if there was a fire or a serious injury? How would you contact a potential new employer, or keep in touch with a current one? How would you contact your utility company about a power outage, or a doctor about your sick child? How would you keep in touch with your loved ones and your community? In this day and age, telecommunications services are a real necessity, and not being able to afford them is a real liability.

Those types of questions prompted the Federal Communication Commission to implement the Lifeline benefit program for income-eligible consumers in 1984. That program had two parts: Lifeline Assistance, which
provided discounts on basic monthly landline telephone service at the primary residence of qualified telephone subscribers, and Lifeline Link-Up, which provided discounts on the initial installation fee for landline telephone service at the primary residence of qualified telephone subscribers.

As cell phone usage has increased and cell phone service fees have dropped, the Lifeline program has been expanded to include wireless technology. Prepaid cell phone companies have spun off government-approved subsidiaries (such as Safelink Wireless, Assurance Wireless, and Reachout Wireless) to specialize in providing Lifelife-covered telephone services to qualifying participants.

From that basic framework, rumors like the ones encapsulated in the Examples cited above have circulated, claiming that "the Obama administration created a program to give free cell phones paid for by taxpayer money to welfare recipients." All the elements of such statements are erroneous or exaggerated:

* The Lifeline program originated in 1984, during the administration of Ronald Reagan; it was expanded in 1996, during the administration of Bill Clinton; and its first cellular provider service (SafeLink Wireless) was launched by TracFone in 2008, during the administration of George W. Bush. All of these milestones were passed prior to the advent of the Obama administration.

* The Lifeline program only covers monthly discounts on landline or wireless telephone service for eligible consumers. It does not pay cellular companies to provide free cell phones to consumers, although some cellular service providers choose to offer that benefit to their Lifeline customers.

* Lifeline discounts are not available only to "welfare recipients" — these programs are implemented at both the state and federal levels, so qualification criteria can vary from state to state, but in general participants must have an income that is at or below 135% of the federal Poverty Guidelines, or take part in at least one of the following federal assistance programs:
o Medicaid;
o Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Food Stamps or SNAP);
o Supplemental Security Income (SSI);
o Federal Public Housing Assistance (Section 8);
o Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP);
o Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF);
o National School Lunch Program's Free Lunch Program;
o Bureau of Indian Affairs General Assistance;
o Tribally-Administered Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TTANF);
o Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR);
o Head Start (if income eligibility criteria are met); or
o State assistance programs (if applicable).

* The Lifeline program is not directly subsidized by taxpayer monies. It is paid for out of the federal Universal Service Fund (USF) through a fee assessed against telecommunications service providers, who may or may not pass those costs along to their customers:
All telecommunications service providers and certain other providers of telecommunications must contribute to the federal USF based on a percentage of their interstate and international end-user telecommunications revenues. These companies include wireline phone companies, wireless phone companies, paging service companies and certain Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers.

Some consumers may notice a “Universal Service” line item on their telephone bills. This line item appears when a company chooses to recover its USF contributions directly from its customers by billing them this charge. The FCC does not require this charge to be passed on to customers. Each company makes a business decision about whether and how to assess charges to recover its Universal Service costs. These charges usually appear as a percentage of the consumer’s phone bill. Companies that choose to collect Universal Service fees from their customers cannot collect an amount that exceeds their contribution to the USF. They also cannot collect any fees from a Lifeline program participant.

The costs of administering the Lifeline program have increased greatly with the move towards cellular telephone services, leading the FCC to approve a comprehensive overhaul of the program in January 2012 intended to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.

A number of web sites touting Lifeline benefits and imitating the look of government web sites have sprung up on the Internet, but those sites are privately operated ones created to promote the sales of cellular services and have no official connection to the federal government or the current presidential administration:
By 2010, Virgin Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, i-Wireless, Head Start, Consumer Cellular, Midwestern Telecom, Allied Wireless, and others had free phone plans. That's why you can find all these "free cell phone" websites that look kind of shady, like Obamaphone.net or FreeGovernmentCellPhones.net. In 2011, the FCC said that these carriers were "fiercely competing for the business of low-income consumers by marketing ‘free’ phones." TracFone spokesman Jose Fuentes [said], "We’ve had a lot of fly-by-night companies come in." Fuentes estimated that more than 1,700 wireless companies were part of Lifeline. Between 2008 and 2012, the number of people with Lifeline phones grew from 7.1 million to 12.5 million. These companies may be fly-by-night at providing cell phone service, but they are pretty good at marketing, and as the rush of merchandise tied to his inauguration showed, Obama's name seems to move product.

Read more at snopes.com: Free 'ObamaPhones' for Welfare Recipients

consumers may notice a “Universal Service” line item on their telephone bills. This line item appears when a company chooses to recover its USF contributions directly from its customers

hey dumb fuck !!!!we are talking about the tax payer being taxed for it;... if the company charges everybody a price for it how is that a tax, dumb fuck???? . its a cost of doing business with the phone company ... if that phone company can write it off, then you aren't charged for it ... you aren't taxed for it ... how is that being a taxed

 

[S.J.]

i said you were taxed for it and you are not taxed for it ...

wtf???

 

[billyerock1991]

I do love the way he butchers the English language.

you would know proper grammar if your life depended on it !!!! when you ass holes can't refute a post, you go for spelling and grammar ... I haven't mispelled anything .. I haven't use any improper grammar ... but you love to think i did ... go fuck yourself SJ the boards loser ...

OMG, this is hilarious. You misspelled "mispell"! (along with 5 other grammatical mistakes). What a fucking idiot!!! You are every bit as stupid as you look. ROFL!

really??? point them out if you can, dumb fuck!!!!

 

[billyerock1991]

Yet we give free cell phones for low income .. He tells the middle class to give up stuff for his agenda and we are giving people free the stuff he told us to give up. How is this fair ??Obamacare's too expensive for ya? Cancel your cable, peasant! | The Daily Caller

and your point being????