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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBWAHAHA! RW radio has been epic hysterical! Here's the latest!
Some white woman calls into limpball's show, tells him they key to the GOP understanding Hispanics is to recognize there's two types of Hispanic voter. My ears perked up, cause I knew a gem was coming. So, here's the two types of Hispanic voter:
1) Those who earned the right to vote, work hard, have family and religion values, and always vote republican.
2) Illegal immigrants who always vote Democratic.
Oh, yes, I'm SURE that 10 million Latino votes for Obama were voter fraud.
I'm not worried about GOP peeling off Democratic voting Latinos, if that's their "outreach".
spinbaby
(15,090 posts)The illegals who voted for Obama are all here to collect welfare and free cell phones.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)I've asked before in another thread, what is the deal about the cell phones. Keep seeing this but have no idea where it comes from.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Posted on October 29, 2009, Updated on Nov. 5, 2009
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 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 its hardly new.
How It Works
SafeLink Wireless, the program mentioned in the e-mail, does indeed offer a cell phone, about one hours 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, thats $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 worlds 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". 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.
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/the-obama-phone/
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)President Obama for a program which began under gwbush as well as ignoring the facts.
Like I said above: idiots.
Edited to add: Thank you for the info =).
spinbaby
(15,090 posts)It's called "Lifeline" or something similar and is intended to be for emergency use and for job hunting and such. The program started under Clinton for land lines and now also subsidizes cell phones. The right has spun that into "Obama gives free phones to black people and illegal immigrants."
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)dwilso40641
(198 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)don't want to look at.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)A program started by Reagan to provide low income people with phones. Expanded under W to cell phones. Obama didn't stop the program, therefore he's to blame for it. These people are insane.
denverbill
(11,489 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)incapable of accepting facts.
mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)an african american woman who was caught on tape saying she got an Obama phone. The woman was describing the Government service for Seniors and Low-incomee citizens to 250 minutes of free cell phone service. These services are provided by Safelink,assurance and a couple other companies. This service was started under the Bush Administration. The woman in the tape doesn't know how she got it she just knows Obama is in office and she has a phone. But the right wing folks keep playing the tape over and over and refering to Socialism, and government Welfare. Which in turn means, the black people are getting free stuff from President Obama. Got it??? Here's the video
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)calico1
(8,391 posts)I was born in NY to Puerto Rican parents so I would be a citizen anyway even if I hadn't been born on the mainland.
I have worked at least part time since the age of 16.
I vote Democratic.
I think it's hilarous how Republicans think almost no Latinos here are actual citizens.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Hell, I'm here in the deepest of Mississippi, and *I* had the good sense to vote Obama, drag my neighbor who also votes liberal to the polls, and try.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)eating my tuna salad sandwich with Vermont cheddar cheese sandwich and laugh my ass off.
We showed them in epic numbers who we want running our nation, and it isn't Rush .
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Limbaugh no doubt played right along with that theme without missing a beat.
"Yeah one day one of those illegals will be running for President."
OMFG
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)They've cultivated this crop of misfits, encouraged them, told them that they were the "real Americans" and now they're stuck with them. It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of assholes.
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)place...
Riiiiiiiight.