Swing state. People getting government subsidized cell phones, which they call “Obama Phones” and explicitly connect to their vote in November. A million of these “Obama Phones” are on the streets in Ohio alone, double last year’s number.
All coincidental, I’m sure.
The program in Ohio cost $26.9 million in the first quarter of 2012, the most recent data available, versus $15.6 million in the same timeframe in 2011. Compared to the first quarter of 2011, the number of people in the program nearly doubled to more than a million.
Growth could cost everyone who owns a phone. The program is funded through the “Universal Service Fund” charge on phone bills — usually a dollar or two per bill — and the amount of the fee is determined by the cost of this and other programs.
A growth of $100 million in this program could result in an increased fee of a few cents on the average bill, according to officials from the agency that administers the program. The total cost of the program nationwide was $1.5 billion in 2011, up from $1.1 billion in 2010.
Growth in the program is fed by the 2008 decision to extend it to prepaid cellphone companies, which get up to $10 every month that someone is subscribed. The number of cellphone companies offering the service in Ohio grew from four in 2011 to nine currently, with seven more awaiting approval from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
Obama’s just redistributing cell phone service, from people who are paying for it, to people who aren’t.
Obama’s policies have cost thousands of coal miners their jobs in Ohio. But Obama’s policies have also put nearly a million “free” phones into the hands of Ohioans.
You do the math.
This is how you buy an election despite espousing policies that have killed jobs in a vulnerable industry in a swing state. Romney can pose for photos with all the laid off coal miners in the state every day from now to November 6. There are just more Obama Phone users than there are laid off coal miners in Ohio.
The Obama Phone users need the coal miners to keep mining, to power their “free” phones. But what are the chances that they’ll make that connection on their own?
ObamaPhone: Proving Romney was right about the Democrat-loving 47%.
You realize that the “ObamaPhone” program started under Ronald Reagan.
Please continue with your explanation. Has the program changed at all since its inception?
Will you blame free broadband internet for hammock net leeches on Reagan as well?
I see that demorat operatives are being soundly defeated on threads across the nation.
don’t try your crap here.
Plenty of people on this site argue that all this stuff is just happenstance, and that people who think that elections are manipulated and bought are conspiracy theorists.
When it comes to Alinskyites, there aren’t any coincidences. And nothing happens that they haven’t at least tried to twist to their advantage.
I keep saying the things we know about are the least of our problems. There are dozens, perhaps thousands of things, big and small, going on that we don’t have the slightest idea about (like putting leftists in the polling companies). This cell phone thing is a case in point.
It took a lot of time and effort by a lot of leftists to get a million phones in the hands of “obama voters”. You work to support your family and put bread on the table. But there are thousands of full-time leftists whose every iota of work is dedicated taking over the country, permanently.
What? You are telling me that you can’t just wave a magic electricity want to create power. Somebody better tell the people driving electric cars too. Common sense, pass it on.
*Glenn Miller music intro*
Don’t work this weekend, Sailor-man and PJM Commentators. The race is over. Think instead about Texas and seceding.
*Tommy Dorsey music exit*
Free stuff is fair and I want my Obamaphone too, plus lots of other good free stuff. It’s only fair, and being treated at least as fairly as anyone else is my constitutional right.
However, before I will vote to reelect President Obama, I want a promise in writing that he will use his stash to give me what I deserve. Otherwise, I guess I’ll just have to vote against him.
what you think you deserve, or what He thinks you deserve?
Why, what I think I deserve, of course. He probably thinks I deserve lots more, such as free birth control and abortion stuff, but I’m too old to worry about that. Once I get what I need and therefore deserve, I’ll be happy to listen to any of His further offers.
expect mass telephone calls and/or messages to Obama phone users from their benefactor or his vice president, etc.
in the country would amount to 57,000,000 users, which is a whole lot of people with one of ‘em.
to fill out and get one of those phones, and did fill most of it out, but I balked for a couple of reasons, the first being I figured they could locate me anytime and anywhere if they felt like it, and I’m sure they’re keeping tabs on recipients with random checks and maybe even eavesdropping just to test it out. The other reason was that they wanted me to give them the last four digits of my Social Security number. I called up a contact number on the application to ask whether I could leave my SSN’s last four digits out, and told them I didn’t see why they needed them. I added that I was also afraid that someone could manage to get my whole number from those digits. I was told not to worry, and became even more suspicious when the guy kept urging me to go ahead and apply. I think he was sincere himself, but I said to myself the hell with it, if I feel I need one I’ll get a cheapie by myself. But to tell the truth, I think everyone who has a cell phone, no matter how fancy it is, can be tracked through it.
We can force you to get one if we so choose, and don’t you forget it.
Homeland Security Agent #*****4733
Well, Chief Betrayer of the SCOTUS DID give the demonrats the path to do whatever they consider for the general welfare under the taxing authority….
Where’s my phone for being alive and black?
– my bread! Gimme my circus! Gimme my cell phone!