Another program gives free cell-phones to the poor.
Problem is you're paying for it.
Look at your phone bill. If you see a fee labeled Universal Service Fund....that's the part of your bill that goes to cell-phones for the poor.
Links
Washington Footing the Cell Phone Bill for Millions of Low Income Americans - Yahoo! News
Americans Aren't Entitled to Have Free Cellphones - Yahoo! News
Of course, you dont know the extent of the service that they get, or else you wouldn't be bitching.
Also - not so sure why you'd be against this shit. The Banks all but admit to fraud by signing on, and your alternative is to let them get away with it? This is the Gov'ts alternative to long and expensive court cases. You should be thrilled but Noo000o000o.
It amounts to a shakedown.
Jessie Jackson was really good at those.
Funny you see no problem with the Obama Administration taking this tactic to a whole other level and using taxpayer funds to do it. Seems like a personal vendetta to me. Social-justice and all that who cares that nobody held a gun to anyone's head or tricked anyone into signinmg anything. If been in the lending business. Consumers rip off banks for billions and nobody goes after them. They could care less if their credit is ruined.
The Banks went along with it. Your argument is failsauce.