such bull if they want to give someone somthing give it to someone thats doing good for themselfs and not some one that does not even pay taxes or even have a job. i think its bull that there going to get free cell phones and not even pay a dime. such bull i work my butt off to help pay for someones phone cause they wont get off their ass and find a job. who ever come up with this needs to find a real job,and for the ones that oked this get off the crack please.

I refuse to allow my parents to pay my cell phone bill. That fifty bucks monthly is bought and paid for by me.

Good for you Eddie. Not many young guys out there know what it’s like to feel like a man because you stand on your own two feet.

As to this program.

It’ll be great for us teachers to contact low income parents…as long as we remember to make our phone calls to parents in the first 5 days of class.

Anyone so shiftless as to need a welfare cellphone is going to burn through their minutes in the first 5 days of the month. I say tis because in one town where I worked there was a huge spike in pizza delivery and shoe sales at the first of the month, and a lot of people asking for help by the 15th.

Did this nonsense start under Bush or Obama? Either way its wrong. These folks need to work for what they get. I bet if they had to pick up trash to collect these benefits – they would find a job.

Because I have a sense of dignity.

I refuse to allow my parents to pay my cell phone bill. That fifty bucks monthly is bought and paid for by me.

it actually feels good.

If the poor don’t have cell phones how will they be able to call for pizza and meth?

Collect.

Look I disagree with the policy as much as you but saying all the poor are fat lazy methheads is foolish. These are rough times and just because someone is in need does not make them delinquents.

I can almost understand the purpose in this,even if I disagree with the method, in order to have a job you have to have a phone with which to be reached. That is why poverty is such a cycle, once your homeless you will find it near impossible to overcome homelessness without help from somewhere. In order to have a job you need an address and a phone so they can contact you.

Now I think perhaps a better way to do this would instead of cell phones subsidizing cord phones which are cheaper on average.

It should also be paid for with taxes not by raising the price of the cell phone bills.

I’m still on the fence on the issue as a whole. On the one hand a phone isn’t needed to survive…on the other in order to have a job you need to be able to be contacted.

The democrats raise taxes, hyper-control the decisions of others, and call it distributing the wealth. Meanwhile, some businesses raise fees, hyper-control the decisions of others, and call it corporate responsibility while hailing lowered taxes . It’s the same earmark/lobbying game that is redesigned and relabeled to be palatable to each applicable audience.

I have what is considered “low” income, but I’m not on welfare, so I purchase the economy plan and budget my income to pay for a no bells & whistles plan. I don’t complain and whine to the government that I don’t have texting or call waiting. There is a difference between need and covetousness. The Bible says, “Be content with such things as you have for He Himself has said I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Let me guess, in exchange for the free phones, the companies and government buy the rights to leer into and share your private information, calling habits and keywords? It’s a distasteful lab-rat pellet.

When a government or business oversteps its purpose, then quality and true choice (aka freedom) go out the window.

But how does subsidizing cell phone use for the poor fit into that equation?

It’s called securing the votes. Maybe by 2012 we’ll have cell phone voting and you sure wouldn’t want to bite the hand of the one who pays for your phone bill, would you?

If the poor don’t have cell phones how will they be able to call for pizza and meth?

Why work when you get everything for free?