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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So Obamaphones were meant for the poor in an emergency...

Meanwhile, they get a free phone and 250 minutes a month. Who has 250 minutes worth of emergencies a month?

It's like dialing for dollars for TracFone and other companies involved in that boondoggle called "lifeline".... but but but hate big telecom.

It's insanity.

250 – Number of free minutes offered to program participants in most states. (California, which so often leads the way in so many things, now offers Obama Phone customers unlimited talk and texts).

1999 – The year the Lifeline Assistance program began offering subsidies on home phones.

2008 – The year Tracfone handed out the first free government cell phone in Tennessee.

200,000 – The population of Puerto Rico is approximately 4,000,000, but in 2012 the Federal Communications Commission estimated that 200,000 of Puerto Ricans had fraudulent Obama Phone accounts.

10,000,000 – The number of households on Food Stamps that qualify for an Obama Phone but do not yet have one.

13,000,000 – Current estimated number of free cell phones subscribers.

214,000,000 – The number of dollars the FCC says it saved by cracking down on Obama Phone fraud, waste and abuse in 2012

400,000,000 – The number of dollars the FCC says it saved in 2013.

1,384,000,000 – Estimated number of Obama Phone dollars to be saved in 2014 if FCC effort to curb fraud, waste and abuse is achieved.[/quote]

Please cite reliable sources for this. [/quote]

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