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OK...I guess I missed the memo...but exactly WHEN did a cell phone become a necessity, and not a luxury, that MY tax money is paying for so someone can have one???? 

I saw a commercial for SafeLink Wireless, advertisinig FREE CELL PHONES for if you are low-income, receive SSI, food stamps, etc.  I checked out the website, and sure enough, there it is!!!  You and I get to pay for cell phones for others!!!

So again, exactly when did they become a necessity?????  We already provide housing, give them tax refunds when they don't pay taxes (earned income credit),  welfare checks, etc, etc, etc....So when does it stop?????  Tennessee and Florida are the first states to provide this, with more being added. 

Don't get me wrong...I don't mind giving a hand up (not a handout like the Libs enjoy), but really, WHEN DOES IT STOP???  I know hard working people that don't have/can't afford cell phones, yet their taxes are now paying for others to have them!!!!

https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/h
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ADeltonian read my blog view my photos
Oct 7, 2008 | 5:57 PM

Acutally they are refurbished cells and are programmed only to call 9 emergency and nothing else.

FlaNative read my blog view my photos
Oct 7, 2008 | 7:20 PM

According to the website, they get free minutes each month, which they can rollover!!!!

FlaNative read my blog view my photos
Oct 7, 2008 | 7:23 PM

Lifeline Assistance is part of a program that was created by the government to provide discounted or free telephone service to income-eligible consumers. To help bring you this important benefit, SafeLink Wireless is proud to offer Lifeline Service. Through our Lifeline Service you will receive FREE cellular service, a FREE cell phone, and FREE Minutes every month! SafeLink Wireless Service does not cost anything – there are no contracts, no recurring fees and no monthly charges.

Any Minutes you do not use will roll-over. Features such as caller ID, call waiting and voicemail are all also included with your service. If you need additional Minutes, you can buy TracFone Airtime Cards at any TracFone retailer Walmart, Walgreens, Family Dollar, etc). SafeLink Airtime Cards will be available soon.

ADeltonian read my blog view my photos
Oct 7, 2008 | 8:04 PM

Well thats a load of crapola giving them free minutes.

Another bleeding hearted democrat giving away hard earned taxes again.

hwayoutaline read my blog
Oct 8, 2008 | 6:58 AM

I checked this out and you are right, UNFREAKIN beleiveable, Why don't we just give them gas cards and pay the insurance too? Better yet let's just buy the car for them also!

toddt read my blog
Oct 8, 2008 | 8:58 AM

Good news.....you only qualify if you already have good experience in milking the system i.e. must be on medicaid, free school lunch for kids, low income housing etc. etc.

This program is for the professional milkers and the lady who wont stop having babies and the illegals!!!!!!!!!!!

They cant get a job but they need a cell????

TM6068 read my blog
Oct 8, 2008 | 9:20 AM

that is crapola, as someone posted. If OBama gets in office, that's just the tip of entitlements...that he'll give to nondeserving illegals and his "middle class," which translates to unemployed, system milking freeloaders.

TM6068 read my blog
Oct 8, 2008 | 12:33 PM

What's really going to be bad...is when we have to press 1 for english, 2 for spanish, or 3 for farsi....thanks to muslim obama

FlaNative read my blog view my photos
Oct 8, 2008 | 1:25 PM

And the salt in the wound is not just a free phone with free minutes, but they also get caller ID, call waiting, etc!!!!!

Just the drug pushers appreciate the gov't giving them a free phone to do business....

NOBSHERE read my blog
Oct 9, 2008 | 6:21 AM

Wrong Deltonian... My cleaning lady got one, works just like mine that I PAY for!

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Born and raised in Tampa, I'm a 5th generation Fla Native and proud of it! My mom raised 6 of us by herself, in a time long before welfare and food stamps. She worked 3 jobs, which is probably where I learned my work ethic and my distain for people who are too lazy to work and "expect" their welfare checks and food stamps year after year, generation after generation! I spent over 20 years in the Air Force, going in during Viet Nam and leaving after Gulf 1, and have a son currently in the Army preparing for deployment to Iraq. The loves of my life are my wife, kids, grandkids and the Harley (not necessarily in that order, but don't tell the wife, kids or grandkids)!! When not working on my second "career", I ride with a group called the Patriot Guard (patriotguard.org), attending the funerals of our heros who gave their lives for our freedoms. Most in our organization use our "personal days" or "without pay" to attend with permission of the family, and are proud to do it!! This group started because of people such as those at Westboro Baptist "Church" who began protesting these funerals with signs such as "thank God for dead soliders". NEVER AGAIN!!! Yep, I'm a right wing, conservative redneck. I don't like people using abortion as birth control. I think the ACLU is the worst thing that ever happened to this great country. I think 99% of the lawyers give the rest of them a bad name. I promise that if you come into my house in the middle of the night you will be carried out and buried. I think no one should be on welfare for more than 2 years during their life I don't think I should have to pay to support your kids fathered by someone whose name you don't know. I think every county should have a jail just like the Sheriff in Maricopa County AZ with tents and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I don't care if what i say offends you. I think illegals should be put on a bus and taken back across the boarder. I don't think I should have to press 1 for English. I think you have the right to burn our flag, but I promise you won't be successful if I'm around and don't care if I get sent to jail while your left-wing, liberal, Michael Moore, Rosie, Alec Baldwin America haters cheer!!!! I will PROUDLY go to jail to protect HER!!! If we disagree here, that's fine. You have to right to be wrong. I don't take it personal and hope you don't either. Land of the free, BECAUSE of the brave...

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