The Government Cell Phone: Exposing the free cell phone for the poor scam

March 11, 2009 · 1,156 comments

Today we ran the story of Michelle Obama serving risotto at the soup kitchen down the street from the White House. She was surrounded by poor people frantically snapping photos with their cell phones.

If you’re anything like us you wondered, how can the poor afford cell phones? The monthly bills on these things can eat you alive. Is there a free government cell phone service we didn’t know about?

Free Government Cell Phones from Safelink Wireless

free government cell phone from safelink wireless

Hello? Hello? Can anyone hear us complaining about this outrageous abuse?

We were tipped off to the Safelink Wireless website. But please be warned that if you visit this site you are likely to walk away pissed off. Here’s what it says:

“SafeLink Wireless is a government supported program 
that provides a free cell phone and airtime each
 month for income-eligible customers.”

“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.”

“Your exact benefits, including the number of free Minutes you will receive, depend on the state you live in.”

Free cell phone from Safelink Wireless: how to qualify

“The process to qualify for Lifeline Service depends on the State you live in. In general, you may qualify if…

  1. You already participate in other State or Federal assistance program such as Federal Public Housing Assistance, Food Stamps and Medicaid. OR
  2. Your total household income is at or below 135% of the poverty guidelines set by your State and/or the Federal Government. AND
  3. No one in your household currently receives Lifeline Service through another phone carrier.
  4. You have a valid United States Postal Address. In order for us to ship you your free phone you must live at a residence that can receive mail from the US Post Office. Sorry, but P.O. Boxes cannot be accepted.

In addition to meeting the guidelines above you will also be required to provide proof of your participation in an assistance program, or proof of your income level.

Un-freakin-believable. Outrageous. Shocking.


The way we read it, this Safelink Wireless program gives you a free cell phone, free monthly service, and free minutes. You qualify even if you make 35% more than the designated “poverty” level or if you’re already getting additional freebies from the government. And we see nothing that indicates you have to be a legal resident of the United States to qualify.

The site is also available in Spanish, leading to the not-too-unreasonable conclusion that a significant percentage of the free cell phones applicants conceivably could be, may be, might be undocumented aliens.

And, for God’s sake, we don’t even want to know how many of those filling out a Safelink application are currently stiffing a bank on a mortgage they never really qualified for in the first place.

We think we’re going to have strokes. Would someone please call 911 on their free cell phone?



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American Citizen August 12, 2010 at 10:11 am
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The truth behind the sham-scam is the FEDS are providing the phones; they get to tap your phone without a warrant; GPS it to follow you and use the evidence they get to prosecute any one they “think” committed an alleged “crime” (which is a broken rule, regulation or code created by the legislature to enslave ALL Citizens).

So I dare you to enslave your self into signing that “adhesion contract” (when only one party certifies under penalty of perjury) that binds only YOU and not THEM to agree to prosecuted for its hundreds of thousands of color-of-laws they changed and recreate every day.

And if you do, it’s no one’s fault but yours. You agreed when you signed their voter registration contract subjecting you to follow their color-of-laws since you agreed to represent them (they don’t represent you) hahahaaaa the jokes on all of you United Slaves of America… called “citizen of the United States”

NOT US Citizens of our States of the Union that the Prez addresses at the “State of the Union” Address, hahahaaaa you’ve been duped,, hahahaaaa

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JesseJames August 28, 2010 at 5:34 am
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There are countless uninhabited island all over the world. Please go there before you and your crazy friends blow up another federal building.

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American Citizen August 12, 2010 at 10:24 am
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So how many adhesion contracts have YOU signed? Let’s see
Social Security Administration Form SS-5?
Voter Registration?
Driver’s License form? MV-44 in NY.
Marriage License? and you thought you wedded in Holy Matrimony, haaaahahaa
Birth Certificate for you kids? hahaaa
Certificate of Title for your car? haaahaha You gave them the Title; it’s called the Manufactures Certificate of Origin <— that your real title.
Selective Service? hahahaaaa
And last but least; but the most dangerous…
W-4 for your job and the reaccuring Form 1040, HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhahahaaaaaa grab the tool bag because you're so screwed up

That's why your pay is taxed, you get parking tickets and moving violations; child service tells you how to raise your kids and the State probates your stuff when you die… and by the way, those are not your kids; you gave them to the State when you signed their Birth Certificates, ahahaaa, YOU did it all your self when you signed forms you didn't have to… The constitution states it in the contract clause. You can't be forced to sign an agreement

So now you are wondering, "OK mister know it all, if that's true how do I fix it?"

EASY; CREATE AN AFFIDAVIT REVOKING YOUR SIGNATURE AND CANCEL OR YOUR OBLIGATIONS, DUHHH.

I would start with the Voter Registration and work my way backwards if I had one… anymore, see, it's simple. Stop complaining and start filing the right forms, and I'd do as many as I can within a week….

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DamnStraight August 28, 2010 at 9:37 am
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Thank God for U American Citizen:Someone on here has their head screwed on straight…and Knows the Real Deal….not the bullshit they put on the nightly puke..I mean news…And as far as the Safelink phones go, they don’t come with cameras…So..how do “poor people” get camera cell phones? Here’s a few novel thoughts: They might not have always been poor(Hmm..really? record unemployment, foreclosure crisis), and u can get a basic camera phone for 50 bucks or less.

Final thought on Safelink phones..besides the excellent information American Citizen has already provided…Their call center is in Guyana West Indies…LOL..shockingly true…not even the Government wants to hire Americans to work their American “handout”

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Chelle August 12, 2010 at 11:09 am
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Safelink is a joke. I attempted to get my father (who is in an assisted living home and has to call family to get rides for things) one of these phones. First the website said his address and ss didn’t match, then the guy on the phone, “ma’am I am just a tech support guy, I don’t know of another person or number you can call to get an application mailed or faxed to you”. What a joke. After 10 tries with the number they give and it being automated and hanging up on me I tried another one I’ve heard of. Assurance through Virgin Mobile. I got right through and the application got to me in 8 days. It’s been a life saver for him many times. The assisted living place has one phone for all of the residents to use and there is always a line for it or they all just give up. None of them have any income because the state takes it all once they are in a place like that so they have to rely on other means. He had a cell phone we were all paying for and none of us (his kids) can afford to do that. This phone works great indoors and out and doesn’t seem to drop any calls and gives him 200 free minutes a month. I suggest trying them out so you don’t lose hair by pulling it out trying to get safelink. It’s just not worth it.

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Mandieechulaax3 August 18, 2010 at 8:33 pm
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JesseJames August 28, 2010 at 5:39 am
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Sounds like spam to me! And if your father is in a crappy assistant living home, take him home and take care of him yourself…you know the way GOOD families once did. You can take a short nursing assistant course and you will get that money that goes to that home. sorry…this comment is for Chelle’s August 12, 2010 at 11:09 am post

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iowamom September 7, 2010 at 12:55 pm
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Why do feel it necessary to slam this person for having her father in assisted living ? It isn’t always possible for someone to care for a parent in their own home. There are several reasons for this including accessability. I’m quite certain that you do not know their situation therefore does not qualify you to judge them. By the way have you ever had to care for an elderly parent? Doesn’t sound like it.

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angie August 14, 2010 at 8:43 pm
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safelink is great iv had mine for 1 year and it works i did not have to sign anything. thank you safelink

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Dan August 15, 2010 at 2:45 am
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The safe link program is proably just a trial run.Something to try out on poor people.I can see a day when they government takes over all cummunications.Everyone will get a govt cell phone.That way the govt can monitor it’s citizens every word and action.I could be wrong. proably just another wastfull program.One shouldnt get mad at those accepting the phones.you give something for nothing.Peope are going to take it.Not meI dont want the govt cell phone Govt already completely controls and manipulates the mediaWhy do you think Tom Brokaw now spends most of his newscast reporting on dumb stories like,The Octo Mom and Bradgalina.Because he is no longer aloud to report real news.They dont even talk about the wars anymore.Why?because if they did americans would get pist and maybe protest.like they did in vietnam.the vietnam war was covered by the media. these wars arent.that way americans dont think about it. were to busy being fed reality tv programs and texting to think about 2 waRS THAT ARE DRAINING OUR ECONOMY and killing thousands of people.Its all to keep us safe dont you know?fighting 7000 miles away from home keeps us safe from terrorist.yet they leave the mexican and canadian borders wide open for anyone to come in.Its obvious we are not in iraq and afgahnistan to protect us and keep us safe.If they were really one bit concerned about terrorism they would secure our borders.Not invade countries half way around the world.we are there because we want their resources.Has nothing to do with keeping us safe.Sorry for my rant

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amber m August 16, 2010 at 2:03 pm
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The safe link program is proably just a trial run.(double space)Something to try out on poor people.(double space) I can see a day when they(the) government takes over all cummunications (communications).(double space)Everyone will get a govt (government)cell phone.(double space)That way the govt (government) can monitor it’s citizens (citizens’) every word(s) and action (s).(double space)I could be wrong. proably(Probably) just another wastfull(wasteful) program.(space)One shouldnt(shouldn’t) get mad at those accepting the phones.(double space)you(You) give something for nothing.(double space)Peope(People) are going to take it.(double space)Not me(.) I dont(dont’) want the govt (government)cell phone(.) Govt(Government) already completely controls and manipulates the media(.)Why do you think Tom Brokaw now spends most of his newscast reporting on dumb stories like,The Octo Mom and Bradgalina.(double space)Because he is no longer aloud (allowed) to report real news.(space)They dont even talk about the wars anymore.(space)Why?because(Because) if they did americans(Americans) would get pist (pissed)and maybe protest.(space)like (Like) they did in vietnam(Vietnam).(double space)the (The)vietnam war (Vietnam War) was covered by the media. these (These)wars arent(arent’).(double space)that (That)way americans(Americans) dont think about it. were (We’re)to busy being fed reality tv programs and texting to think about 2 waRS THAT ARE DRAINING OUR ECONOMY and killing thousands of people. (double space)Its all to keep us safe dont (don’t)you know?(space)fighting (Fighting)7000 miles away from home keeps us safe from terrorist.(double space)yet(Yet) they leave the mexican (Mexican)and canadian(Canadian) borders wide open for anyone to come in.Its obvious we are not in iraq(Iraq) and afgahnistan(Afganistan) to protect us and keep us safe.(double space)If they were really one bit concerned about terrorism they would secure our borders.(double space)Not invade countries half way around the world.( double space)we (We)are there because we want their resources.(space)Has nothing to do with keeping us safe.(double space)Sorry for my rant

PLEASE LEARN HOW TO SPELL! YOUR IDEAS BORDER ON PARANOIA.

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DamnStraight August 28, 2010 at 9:45 am
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Typical…instead of gaining knowledge on the topics covered amber m decides to whip out her virtual red pen….Ur a joke…spelling/grammatical errors b damned!…probably a product of the American public educational system

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iowamom September 7, 2010 at 1:06 pm
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And just where were you educated that makes you superior to the rest of the country. I recieved public education as did my children who are now a doctor and a lawyer. Sorry you feel it necessary to tear others down to make yourself feel better. You must be very unhappy. Misery loves company. A little something I learned in the public education system.

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Ms. Cookie August 19, 2010 at 10:01 am
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Don’t think that they are doing this out of the kindness of their hearts.. These phones have (GPS) tracking devices in them. They can tell where you are at all times, who you’re talking to and whatever you’re talking about. It is said that most crimes are committed by poor people, you’ve heard that right!!! With that said, who would qualify for these phones??? POOR People.. Can you see the connection. I hope so, don’t be duped. I wouldn’t be surprised if they could see inside your home or wherever you happen to be with this phone. BEWARE

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iowamom September 7, 2010 at 1:08 pm
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Paranoid Much ??

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tim August 19, 2010 at 1:03 pm
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I applied for one of your free call phones and have yet to receive it. Could you check your records and send me a phone please?

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Earnest Wright August 20, 2010 at 2:14 pm
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Saftlink Phone I Sine Up

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Earnest Wright August 21, 2010 at 2:47 am
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I Am Apply For Free SaftLink Phone Send It To xxx xxxxx Way Street Hawkinsville, Geargia 31036 My PhoneNumber Is 478xxxxxxx Think You ERrnest Wright

Ernest, we redacted your contact info since it was a public comment. – admin

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chris a kletting August 21, 2010 at 8:31 am
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I have a disability and am on disability and I desperetly need a cell phone my address is 112 apr. 12 5 ave. N.W. altoona Ia 50009 thank you

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chris a kletting August 21, 2010 at 8:33 am
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I AM DISABLED AND NEED THIS CELL PHONE MY ADDRESS IS XXX APT.12 XXXXX AVE. N.W. ALTOONA IA.

Address redacted, we are not Safelink Wireless

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Mememe August 21, 2010 at 1:57 pm
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go to the safe line website and apply….this isn’t how you do it….on this site.

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Mememe August 21, 2010 at 1:55 pm
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Safeline is NOT Government Funded….so get off your high horse and remember some companies do care (even tho I’m sure they use it as a tax write off). If you check the site it tells you this is not a TAX or GOVERNMENT PROGRAM you just have to qualify for a government program to get it. Thanks Trac Phone. My family will rest a little easier knowing he can contact us if he’s away from home and needs us. His directional intuition isn’t as good as it use to be, heck he’s 78 years old.

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JPT August 22, 2010 at 12:59 pm
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Attention! You will send to me the free cellphones which are so required!

Hello and welcome to die!

Dear American Pig F*ckers,

My name is Mohamed Kaboom. What has come to the attention of me and the jihad sleeper cell I operate is that IHTM is to now give out the free cellphones which the swine American tax payers must then finance. Allah willing this will continue until you all have no money- wasting it all on the cellphones- and then must submit to Islam and beg for salvation.

I write you now, unholy mucus of men that you are, to say I need my free cellphones right away. Send the good ones too: No cheap made in China crap for me! Made in Korea is fine, America losers! They are to be used as the detonator for bombs. Just so you American fools do not expect to get return on deposit for the tax payers who dole out for this, I tell you now. One time use only. Then they are as mangled and useless and your economy under Obama.

The bombs will go off at the convention center for the women and child expo. No worries my American cattle… After the site is leveled there are plans in place to build the new victory Mosque on the site. My allies in destroying the great, smelly Satan which is America call this new building a ‘monument to tolerance’. This is true! It is!

This shall be a monument to your being so fu*king stupid as to tolerate your being blown up by us! A great monument indeed! To do this- we need the detonator or as you America’s call it: Welfare Cellphones.

I hear that the phones are for the infirm and the poor and disabled. Give us the phones anyway, American Dogs! I assure you that as a strong Muslim male I am not weak, disabled nor infirm. I can chase down a Jew for twenty miles on camel back! The smaller ones, those children types, are easier to catch but I chase them too. It is what we call Arab version of ‘civil rights’. You have the right to run Jew! We catch you though! Obama will then have a sit down with Iran and listen and give into our one-sided demented demands and call that progress. All happy times!

I am very fit and proud of it. Sure the cellphones are for the supposedly sick and ill. I am a healthy Muslim! Every morning I wake up and beat my wives for at least 45 minutes. They get cocky and wear the late fall niquab when it is only summer. Dumb bitches! As it says in the Holy Qur’an I beat them with a stick and that is fine. Very good cardio! Tops kicking them up and down the steps of the temple- or as you Americans call it: Stair Master.

Poor? Cellphones for the poor? We Muslims are not poor! After all it was not our financial center that got blown up by airplanes. Laugh with me! American rats, LAUGH! It is funny Muslim joke! The New York Times editors get it and chuckle along, why not you?

Don’t worry- you say the phones are for the disabled and broken? I and my brothers in the Great Allah are strong and healthy. There will still be many of hurt and crippled and then disabled children and women after the blast. Hell, plenty of dead ones too! That makes then the great opening for your media to turn around and say it was your fault and that you deserved it. The bigger the pile of the deal American children and women, the larger the blame on America and therefore there must be something America did to deserve this. Yes? Of course so! America cockroaches! Your being non Muslim is crime enough! Obama says the USA is a Muslim nation- then die with honor for Allah when we kill you!

So we must get the cellphones soon! These bombs don’t just set themselves off! Tell that to your troops on our oil soaked Holy Land! They know! Those scum coming in and bringing this logical Democracy and whatnot! We have laws- crazy and old religious zealot ones. They are a bit crude, yes, still… They work fine. By the way, how is your precious Democracy and Constitution? Ha! Praise Obama! They will not last too much longer… Sharia law for every body soon!

Sharia law for him, and him, and her and that weird motherfu*ker in the corner, and him and that child over there and that guy and Sharia law for her and for those two… Everybody loves it! That…or they die; either way it is a productive weekend.

I sit around in my sleeper cell with the others, Jaffar, Omar, Barney Frank, Aban, Ali and the others and we see the media doing what we have not even gotten done yet! Praise the Liberal Media! May Allah make their deaths slightly less painful. Still bloody and awful, but just a bit less painful.

We watch the CNN and the MSNBC and are in awe. I say to Hazim, “Hazim! Take the notes! We are supposed to hate America. We have been at it for a long while. Look! Look Hazim! They on the American TV hate America even more them we do! Write the notes down on how to better hate America, Hazim. We study and hate America more- at least as much as they do! That is the goal, remember it well!”

Hazim tries to write it all down. Allah be praised… Hazim is a little, as you say, slow. He is a good boy. Hazim killed a Jew when he was only 14! He can’t be all that slow. That old Jew bitch put up a good fight though. Hazim just needs- how do you say- the magic screen Obama has… Yes, teleprompter!

Hazim with a teleprompter? That is some standup for you! Bill Maher look out! Hazim will take your “F*ck America and Americans are so stupid! Now pay me $100 to come see my show and hear how stupid you are America” routine and make it spicy like the lamb meatballs! Good times!

So- we need the cellphones for free. NOW!

Send them to:
Honorary BHO Sleeper Cell c/o
Mohamed Kaboom
123 Fake Street
DC
66669

We need them soon or else you will have to wait to die! Just as when Obama sees one of our leaders, he instantly bows- we like to instantly get to the blowing up women and kids part. We are busy- wives don’t beat themselves and you think letting a bread grow large is a process that just happens? No! We need to get the normal work done so we have more time to spend on the important matters.

Death to you all soon!

Your not so friendly and on longer on the DHS watchlist local terrorist (since Obama says that would be profiling)

Mohamed Kaboom III
(my father and brother Mohamed Kaboom the First and Mohamed Kaboom II never did get that whole ‘wait until you are on the bus full of Jews and then hit the trigger’ detail. Third time is the charm!)

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sciquest August 23, 2010 at 6:19 pm
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“If you’re anything like us you wondered, how can the poor afford cell phones?”

OK, since you asked, I will tell you. Prepaid cell phones are very cheap now, like $20. My first cell phone was one of these plans. The phone was $20 and came with the first 20 minutes free and I only used around 200 minutes a year (about $100 if you shopped around) for emergencies or if I needed to be reachable.

Prepaid minutes are expensive per-minute compared to monthly plans but this is the cheapest way to have your own phone number and at least an employer has a way to reach you for that job you applied for. A bare bones prepaid cell phone can be cheaper than a landline, and doesn’t require a deposit – another couple of reasons why the poor might favor them.

And, gosh, get a grip. This is just a offshoot of the Lifeline telephone program that has been around for decades. If you qualify for Lifeline, you can get cell phone service instead of landline, which if you move frequently as low income people often have to, a cell phone is far more practical than a landline.

If you want to understand the Safelink/Lifeline program, you can read the facts firsthand here:
http://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/benefits.aspx

Or you can not read it if you prefer to stay all worked up and enraged for no good reason.

I would remind you all that basic phone service, whether a landline or cell phone, isn’t an extravagant luxury anymore, but rather a nearly essential tool for functioning in our society. That’s why even poor people buy them if they can.

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JPT August 24, 2010 at 7:06 am
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@sciquest

This just in via cell phone txt alert: Point missing poster is missing the point. The point is clear yet, after much effort, remains missed. Get the point? Well then, let us get on point (so it does not have to be missed)

Instead of ‘free phones for the poor’ with the justification that they are now ‘cheap’, how about… Jobs for the poor people. Wait- letting the poor work and earn? How is that going to be?

To enable the poor to real get aid and help themselves is done in what way?
It ain’t by free phones- it is gained byFREE MARKETS! Get it? Free enterprise and not free technology.

Let the economic climate be one where the poor can work and earn and then buy their own goods and technology. Giving out high tech, modern handouts is still just giving out handouts.

Sciquest, you make a busted argument that many liberals seem to like to make but fail to see the flaw in:

As you pointed out:This new welfare ploy is part of an older, preexisting one. Wow! So new technology used for an old, outdated and still flawed program is taking over the former old technology! Great! It is still a costly- for the tax payer- giveaway with no benefit show for the effort.

New lipstick on a fat and old pig! Look, cell phones are modern technology- land lines are not. Next up is Wifi! Have about “Safe Fi” free wifi for the poor. After all wifi and broadband is getting cheaper and cheaper all the time- make it ‘free’ (taxpayers get the bill) and just give it away. That is the newest technology after all; might as well toss that in.

Yes, government inertia means the same old welfare model will always have the newest,shiniest goods and ‘freebies’ put into it’s distribution chain without changing the system. So it was land line service then and now it is cell phone service? Who cares- the operation guidelines are what is at fault. When do we get new and updated versions of those?

Next up is the crap argument that the poor use the free tech giveaways for economic empowerment. All business people raise your hand and say how much business you can get done on 100 minutes total a month. Enough to go from poverty to prosperity? No!

Enough time (100 minutes) to waste and f*ck off with personal use and nothing more? Sure…

There in lies the flaw- the program en masse costs the tax payer big bucks. A 1000 + hands outs get very costly- and the real number of give outs is greater then that. At the personal level (those who get the phones) what is given is not enough to really do some good if the aim is to give business tools to the poor.

The other revelation is that while some poor might really try and use the phones as a part of their job goals- the small amount of minutes the small amount of data usage is not enough to (as stated before) make the phone a business tool. Maybe those people would make enough to not be totally impoverished but then they just move up one step and become ‘working poor’ and get trapped at that level. So what was the point of the expensive pork giveaways?

The job climate is not addressed so the limits are the same. Look at what happened to the third world with all the micro loans. People went from being totally broke to now being ‘hand to mouth’ broke. Not real progress made and many of them went into greater debt (and then failed when they could not repay those new loans) to try to escape that new level of poverty and then slipped back down into having nothing! Nothing but wasted time and effort that is…

Real escape from poverty comes not from free phones but – as I wrote before- from free markets and markets that are open enough to offer jobs at many levels and markets have true increased earning power built in which leads to social mobility and not a welfare trap that has near permanent reliance on handouts as it’s drive.

So? End the program! It is lose/lose and fail/fail all around. Unless the aim was to give free goodies (tax payer funded) to the poor as a way to get them to vote Democratic… The whole scam to bride people with the tag line “vote for me and I will give you more ‘free’ toys”. That seems to be the real agenda.

True conservatives are fully against programs like this. Libertarians wants small government so there is not room in a downsized government for pork programs like this to exist. So the liberals are the ones who seem to want to keep this bulls*it train on track and steaming ahead…

Ring! Ring! Phone call for you, sciquest! Now do you get the point?

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Jon August 24, 2010 at 12:35 pm
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OK– I’m a die hard liberal but this crosses a line! How quickly we slip from democracy to absolute socialism! Even in socialist governments in Europe I don’t think we would see this kind of thing! How the hell can this happen?

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hayley thibodeaux August 25, 2010 at 6:51 pm
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NEED A PHONE.DONT HAVE ONE

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hayley thibodeaux August 25, 2010 at 6:55 pm
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glen king August 26, 2010 at 11:01 am
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request free government tracfone and free government minutes address XXX reynolds avenue rising sun md 21911 po box 329

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janice e robinson August 27, 2010 at 5:18 am
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Dan August 27, 2010 at 6:55 am
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I wouldn’t take one of those gov phones if you paid me to.And I qualify for one.Im disabled and need govt assistance(food shelter clothing ect,Im very gratefull for what i get.I dont take more then I need.cell phone prog makes america look like a bunch of spoiled brats in the eyes of the world

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Sandy August 30, 2010 at 8:56 am
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Geesh… Safelink/Tracphone pay for the phones – they give them away. It does not come out of taxes. Same reason you get free samples in the store… “try my product.” The cost is minimal for Tracphone and the bet is that those who receive the phones will reload them for extra minutes which =’s cha ching for Safelink.

Same reason Tmobiile/Verizon give phones away, except you have to have a contract. Only part the government has to do with it is if your on some sort of assistance it is easier to get approved because it is assumed your low income. Do not have to be on assistance though.

No, do not have one, I have a cheap pay as you go for emergencies only. Spend about $5 a month.

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michelle August 30, 2010 at 9:09 am
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i need this phone

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Linda Lindsey August 30, 2010 at 3:57 pm
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please send me agovernment track phone

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Linda Lindsey August 30, 2010 at 4:01 pm
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please send me a government track phone as soon as possible i do receive government assistance with getting food stamps

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Bruce Wiles August 30, 2010 at 7:08 pm
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If you nutts could spell, mabe someone would read your conservative, better that THOU comments. Too bad America listens to your crap. Grow up!

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lashonda Spralling August 31, 2010 at 5:22 pm
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I would love i get a free phone couse its hard its been hard for me to ghrt any thing free for my slef and i and know how or why see i and a good nice steww kind loving preson i dnt mean no hram to and or any one i an a people preson and i just need this so if some thing bad happen to me me see in my life thime a lot of bad thing been happen to me and noe i still dnt get aswners form any one so plz it will mean a lot to me and some one sold a phone that mean the world to me so that why i am writing this and i dnt have anyone that care be side me and eddie larmbert but he anit pick up the phone in a LONG TIME.

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joseph schleifer August 31, 2010 at 6:53 pm
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Hi I would like to get A goverment phone Im on low income

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joseph schleifer August 31, 2010 at 7:13 pm
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Hi my name is joseph and Im on afix income and I cant aford a cellphone.I would like to know if Im qualified or not.I would like to get a new cell phone so If I needed I could get a hold of my doctors .I have been in the hospital for 30 days and I could not make any telephone calls If I woulld of had the phone I could of made phone calls.I realy need a cell phone cause I am a heart patient and I also have asma and I take medince that cost a lot of money.well thats my comment thank you, sincerly yours joseph.

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fedup August 31, 2010 at 7:18 pm
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What the eff has happened with this site? Why are all the mooches suddenly of the opinion that this clearly ANTI-FREE CELL PHONE blog is the place to register to get one? I am subscribed to new comments, but am about to drop it because I’m sick of all the “po me, i needz a fone 2″ wankers.

Some Shaprton/Jackson coalition probably told’em they smelled fresh meat over here. Ruined the comment section…

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amber m September 1, 2010 at 8:18 am
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While it may be an anti-free cell phone blog, I do think that a lot of education, on both sides of the fence have occured. And fedup, I do agree with the sentiment about why are people on here asking for to be signed up for the Safelink. I really don’t get that either. And I just writting ignorant, with bad spelling, grammar, and little if any sentence structure.
But, we can’t not infer someone’s race/ethnicity/color/religion. So elluding to someone of these individuals as black, is wrong. (referencing you Sharpton/Jackson coalition comment) And just to go on the record, color isn’t the issue, and if it were, I know more white people, than people of color, who are use “the system”, to get something for nothing.

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fedup September 1, 2010 at 8:31 am
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I don’t want to paint too broad a brush, as there are many minorities who are more successful than I will ever be.But, one cannot ignore the facts. The lower 9th ward… what is the overwhelming ethnicity? The recent mobbing by 30,000 people in Atlanta looking for section 8 subsidized rent… what is the overwhelming ethnicity?

When Sharpton and Jackson catch a whiff of anything even remotely racially biased, they will pounce (even extort) on businesses and government about how the ‘poor’ black are being cheated. These two men have done nothing but enable the status-quo, and reinforced the stereotypes of urban blacks. A tool used to keep people down, weak, and dependent? Give them free stuff to pacify them. Then, when they have to get up off their duffs and WORK for themselves, they cry foul that they’re victims.You saw it with Katrina, now in Atlanta, Detroit, and other largely black urban areas.

There is dumpster here in our industrial park that is surrounded by about 100 stray cats every morning. The owner of that particular business tosses out food to them every day. Word among the cats has spread, and it is quite a site to see. Many are so fat, you can barely see their legs. I should take a photo and post it. The cats are happy so long as they’re fed. They’ve now forgotten how to work/forage for their own food. Should the owner ever stop feeding them, it would be a crisis.

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amber m September 1, 2010 at 8:27 am
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While it may be an anti-free cell phone blog, I do think that a lot of education, on both sides of the fence have occurred. And fedup, I do agree with the sentiment about why are people on here asking for to be signed up for the Safelink. I really don’t get that either. And are just writing ignorant, with bad spelling, grammar, and little if any sentence structure.
But, we can’t not infer someone’s race/ethnicity/color/religion. So eluding to someone of these individuals as black, is wrong. (referencing you Sharpton/Jackson coalition comment) And just to go on the record, color isn’t the issue, and if it were, I know more white people, than people of color, who are use “the system”, to get something for nothing.

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amber m September 1, 2010 at 8:27 am
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There is something wrong with the edit on this forum.

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Marty Walker September 3, 2010 at 1:38 pm
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You get one guy who complains professionally like American Citizen, then the other government conspiritors and 9/11 freaks all proclaim gloom and doom to all.
Safelink has been a reliable service to this retired Vet. You can’t lie on your app. It will easily found you out.

Choose today people wether to be a follower of gloom seekers or just be happy and thankful for the use of a phone.

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JPT September 5, 2010 at 2:10 am
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There is no prophecy of gloom and doom will ill omens for all. There IS a dislike of Government pork when the ‘service’ provided is one that is better suited to have people pay for that service (and get to have a better one) themselves.

If they cannot afford to pay, then it is an issue of the economy which must be addressed. Government Pork is for certain a big factor in the economy being crappy: Do nothing hand out programs cost a lot and are used to bolster the cry of ‘we are spending more money so we, the Government, need more money by pushing higher taxes and seeking more control of the markets in a way that funnels more money into our programs’.

Stop spending money on wasteful government programs and there is less need for the big taxes and for the crippling of the free market in a way that vents revenue back into wasteful Big Government instead of letting that money be with the people who earn it and let it grow the economy from that change in possession.

My Dad is a Nam vet. Two of my good pals are Desert Storm vets. Six others I hang with are Afghanistan and/or Iraq vets. Every last man has a cell phone (one has two actually) that they themselves pay for in full. Why are you special? Just asking.

BTW http://www.jitterbug.com

Don’t tell me you can’t afford that! That is even better the the Pork Phone you have now.

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JPT September 5, 2010 at 2:18 am
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This thread is a meme- pure and plain. 8-)

It shall never die and will be a running gag endlessly showcasing all those who are confused enough to think this media criticism site gives away free phone.

All it needs is now to go viral…

Just so you know:
A meme need not be useful, informative nor noble by any means; a chain of ongoing stupidity is a meme all the same. Methinks that chain shall only grow longer and longer and longer…

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dzh September 6, 2010 at 8:33 am
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safelink is worst phone ever!!!! It always asks you to hold for long long long time without solving your problem. If you like to hold a phone for hours, you apply safelink. the people to contact in safelink are very poorly trained. They don’t know how to do business at all. Their English is very hard to understand. Cheap company.

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JPT September 6, 2010 at 2:27 pm
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Um… You get what you pay for.

(Or what the guy next to you pays for with this tax dollars)

Free cell phones for the poor must be the social obligation now; thanks Dems! I guess that moral responsible of freebie tech hands outs does not apply to quality customer service for the poor too…

At least not until the next tax hike…

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Michael September 6, 2010 at 9:54 pm
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Whats nice about this is one who is disabled and cannot afford a cell and stuck on the highway or somewhere that they are stuck,car down and can call either 9-1-1 or someone to help them as they have conditions which may put them in danger,extreme heat,cold or medical reaction that came onto them out of the blue.Point is, they have access to help should they need it, instead of sitting there going oh what am I going to do, putting them more at risk by many scenarios.Disabled people have to get out too if they are not severely disabled.They still have dignity and want to accomplish things the best they can of their ability.While of somewhat diminished capacity, they still fight on, something the abled take for granted and have no idea until they get to that town.Then, only then they can relate and their eyes opened.The disabled already live in that severe town of Painville USA.So dont think for one minute you know how they feel.If you had just one week visiting that place yourself you would even go out and buy a cell phone for someone else.Because then you would understand.The disabled arent picky, theyre glad to get whatever they can that helps them to get to the end of their day, painlessly and safely.This may not be all that but its offered and a first step in the right direction.

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JPT September 7, 2010 at 12:19 am
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime- Confucius

Mike, I read your post and have a minute to spare before doing something else. You get a reply! Lucky you…

Your sentiment is a cute, warm and steaming pile of superficial BS. You profess ersatz compassion for your fellow man (generic liberal tripe) without understanding the blessed nature of hardship and of the opportunity within such a circumstance. This will be clear enough at the end of the post.

Permit me to share:

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A woman, holding her cripple child closely to her bosom pushed her way though the crowd.

At the front of the eager mass of gathers sat the great master- endowed with many powers, ones all humans do posses but few seek to develop due to the discipline and effort needed- and his disciples next to him.

Many had come to see the master and have him work his ways. The master was renown for his ability to set bad fortunes right, to heal in a full miraculous manner, to know of the past as well of that which is about to happen and to do much more.

Others had begun the encounter by asking questions and asking for aid of the master. The master would oblige those who he chose to and his results were incredible.

Interrupting the affairs, the woman barged up to the master. The disciples stepped between him and her so she could walk no farther.

“Please- there are others who are ahead. Kindly walk back” spoke one disciple.

The woman stood firm. She had locked eyes with the master. The master stared back calmly, meeting and holding her gaze.

“Please. Stand back” the disciple requested once more.

“Are you a fraud!?” her voice was loud and forceful.

An angry accusation cum question was shouted from the woman’s mouth with out any prior warning.

“Are you?!” once more was it asked by her loudly.

The crowd was set a titter by this breach of what was the normal course of events for the master’s appearance. No sane person dare to question the credibility of the master. There was now a real tension building, mixed in with the excitement from the gathering to see the master.

The disciple looked upset and fired back at the woman. “How dare you speak in such a way! Do you not know to whom you talk? Do are not know of all which the master has done?”

The eyes of the woman flashed and burned and she held the gaze of the master. Her warrior like stare was met and gently held by the patient eyes of the master.

“See my child” spoke the woman. “See how he is ill an deformed and crippled.”
She held out the babe for the master, as well as all on lookers, to clearly see. “If you are who you profess to be- heal my child. Make him whole and healthy!”

This was a plea as much as it was an angry challenge. The woman held her vicious gaze, her eyes were now tinged with a small amount of sorrow.

The master looked back at her with a peaceful expression. The master then spoke clean and plain.

“No”

The crowd shifted about and noises could be heard from the different gathered people.

The woman stood defiant and yell back at the master “FRAUD! You are a foolish fraud and a fake!”

The master was not phased. He looked back at her gently.

There was rage in the woman’s voice, blended with a look a disappearing hope. Her eyes began to moisten.
“Lying fake! You cannot do it! Who are you?! You are a joke of a man and an imposter!”

The woman turned part way to face the crowd “Why do you come to him!? I have exposed him as a fake! He is nothing! LEAVE HIM! He is a joke who cannot help those who need it most!”

The disciple was fast to step in at this point and confront the enraged woman. “You cannot say such things! The excellence and power of the master has been shown more times then most men could remember clearly enough to count. Why do you not leave? Trouble making does no good for you!”

“What does this master claim to do?!” fired back the woman. She did not move an inch.

Jumping to the defense the disciple spoke “The master does the work of goodness. This is clean and plain.”

“Liar! What is good about refusing to heal my sick baby?!”

“The master has refused you. Go now and leave. That is all for you to do now.” the disciple was firm.

“Fraud!” the woman yelled “Who do you serve? What can you do?! You are a thief stealing the hearts and attention of the crowds who stupidly flock to see you. You devil! You fake!”

She turned to the masses gathered and made a upsetting scene. “You all! You are sheep! You gather here to see a fake and a con! This man is no master! This man is an evil liar!”

“The master serves the will of god and does that is good and proper!” the disciple was now upset and looking to block this woman’s rants with counters.

“God?!” yelled the woman “You speak of god? There is no god!”

Venting on more the woman raised her voice “What kind of god could or would let my child be born in this state!? He is racked by pain all the day, he is sick and wretched and his life is to be filled with misery that no one could imagine! My innocent baby- filled with a life of pain and endless torment! Why? What god does this!?”

The crowd was on edge now. Serious issues and confrontation looked to be at hand. The disciple seemed thrown for a moment and did not know how to respond to this woman. The master sat calmly and looked on.

“You! And you…” her eyes locked on the master once more

“The great master?! Heals the sick? Sets matters right? Aides those in need? HA! You are a fake!” she bellowed.

“You are leaving now! Come!”

The disciple had heard enough and grabbed the woman by the arm and began to pull her aside. The crowd reacted and there was an electric intensity at hand.

“Fake! FRAUD!” yelled the woman.

“Stop”

A voice spoke out. The word was not said in a loud manner but the impact was forceful and immediate. The crowd fell still.

“Let her go” the master again spoke.

“But master… I…” the disciple half protested and half apologized.

“Now”

“Yes master” the disciple released his grip on the lady.

“Forgive him.” said the master “He is goodhearted yet very emotional. His intensity is very much akin to your own”

The woman was a bit confused for the moment. She did not know was was to next happen, nor did the hushed crowd.

“Heal my child!” It was as much a command as a request from the upset woman.

“I said before and I now repeat: No”

The woman was moved to anger “Do you mock me! You fake!” She was also now very sad and looked to almost cry “What of him?” she held out her baby “Will you mock him!?”

“No” the master said calmly. “You need to go”

“Fake! You are a sick con! You are the devil!”

At that the disciple jumped in with words to push against hers. “The master is good and kind! Do not defame him with such foolishness!”

“He cannot heal my sick, poor, innocent baby! He is a fraud!” her feelings were emoting as was her anger.

“The master has healed thousands! His skill and power is of such might that you cannot even know of it in a wild dream woman!” fired back the disciple.

“Lies! He cannot heal my sick child and that is all the proof that is needed to show who your fraud of a master is!” she shirked

“He can heal who he chooses. He is the master! Go!” the disciple was firm and raised his voice.

“Can you heal my child!?” the woman turned and looked at the master with fire in her face.

“You need to go” the master spoke plainly.

“Can you heal my child!? You cannot! Fake!” she yelled once more, using up most of the energy she had left in that outburst.

“I will take her away master! She has done enough to upset this event” the disciple moved to grab the woman again and guide her away.

“Wait”

The crowd was on intent on seeing what the master was about to do. The master spoke up “It was not of any need to share this. You, woman, are as stubborn as you are emotional. If you wish to hear it then I will tell you. Your choosing is your matter”

“Can you heal my child?”

“I can heal your child and make him whole and well as easy as I sit here and breathe”

The crowd was excited! They were surely to see a great miracle today!

Confused and tired the woman held out her twisted child to the master “Please… heal my child!”

“No”

“Will you not heal my child!? If not for me then for this innocent soul, born into a prison of suffering that is his flesh!?” the woman’s voice cracked of desperation and emotional need.

“No” the master looked stern.

“Why?!” the woman sobbed.

“It is not your business to know. Still, I shall speak and if you wish to hear that is your matter.”

The crowd pressed in- not wanting to miss a word. All the disciples too were now very alert.

“The baby you hold in your arms now has lived before. He was a man and that man was a judge.”

The woman listened fully. The master went on “The judge was a cruel and wicked person. Such delights he found in giving unfair and vicious sentences to those who did not deserve them. He was the cause of much pain and torment in a wicked manner. He was to be born once more into the body he now has as the way for him to know what it was that he did to others and to know the wrong of it in the most personal of ways.”

The woman sobbed “If this is true…I do not care! So, heal my son! So what of matters in times past! He is a baby… My son… Look at him now! Heal him… Please…”

“I could heal you son with ease. I put my hand out and pass it over him and he will be made right and healthy”the master shared.

“Yes. Yes! Then do it!” the woman perked up and held out her sickly child once more.

“To do such an act would be a great injustice. Your son was born who and how he is as a result of the love from god and the law of karma both at work. His life will be one of pain and illness. It will be hard and not at all joyful. He is bound to it.”

“Why?!” her anger returned in part. “Why have it be so!?”

“He is bound to this body. There is a great lesson that is for him to learn and to grow through. How cruel would I be to remove the lesson from him and deny him the way of gain and growth which his karma and the love of god have given to him?”

The woman held her child and was silent.

“He is bound to how he is. You are bound to him as well. It will not be a gentle life for you as you go and care or him and move though the years. That is your path in life too: For your past and the retention you carry within you.”

The woman looked off into space as she held her child to her

“This is not good. Do not think this is ill nor bad either. It only is what is so. Your fortune will change in life many times with great intensity to each change. For bad or better it not for you to know beforehand. It is all for him and for you to live.” The master shared the laws of life plainly.

“He is cursed… I am too, cursed…” The woman moaned.

“No” the master corrected “You will go now. You will live out your lives and take the outcomes of the course of your living. This is of a benefit for a greater good. A good which you can and will know, one that you have not prepared yourself to understand”

The woman turned and still holding her child began to walk back through the crowd with tired and heavy steps.

The master spoke. He did so in a way that the departing woman could not hear him yet his disciples could.

“The life of the child is his own. The life of the woman is her own. How things must start have been fixed- how things end is not given. The outcome is that which they make of it now. The lessons set up for them can be avoided or met and gain can come or failure can come. Such a hard debt to bare… To not pay the price is not available as a choice. Still within him and within her is a treasure- one worth more then all the desirable material goods found in the world. If they walk the path and grow, the treasure is one which shall transform them and then shine over and transform others too with it’s blessing.”

The woman walked slow with a drained sense of being about her. She held her child in her arms and moved back away from the master to the road which lead out. The crowd parted aside as she moved forward past the masses of people. No one looked at her and she moved, holding her baby, head down and she left the gathering and the master.

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Well Mike…

Not every poor cripple is evil. The poor and sick were not all Hitler in a past life either.

Life is about cause and effect and learning from lessons. We as men set up life lessons to meet and learn from and gown from. Should we fail- we get to repeat the lesson until we learn.

The goal is to better oneself and one’s circumstances. Hand outs given do not produce these effects; they let people postpone the lesson and not work through it.

Spend the next year of your life and read of the biographies of the greatest men. The common thread that made the normal men or even the good men into being great is how they had to deal with hardship and how each learned and improved from those self given lessons. Then those men past the test: The test of life!

So the poor and sick can be given scraps (digital tech scraps in this case) and look to have their self made issues ‘taken away’ or then can rise up and better themselves and gain the greatness that life can give to them.

That which is given is valued less then that which is earned. Change the system so that the poor and broken can have greater access to earn what they need/want and do not hand them tidbits like they are mere dogs getting kitchen scraps who should be super happy for getting those tidbits (AKA you are a condescending f*ck for looking at the poor that way).

I respect a poor person or a cripple enough to know that the man or woman can do fine and honest work and earn a buck. I don’t profess some false charity and BS ‘compassion’ that says I get to feel good by looking down at another as some poor defect of a person that needs a handout as their way to get by.

Of course being the one who is giving hand outs, like ‘free’ phones, and defending those who give out those ‘free’ phones (paid for by others work) makes you feel like you are just and decent and a swell guy uh? So does telling others to ‘walk a mile’ in someone else’s shoes uh? Sorry to disabuse you of that feeling… Logic and reality keep popping in to ruin the moment!

Fu*king Liberals! LOL!

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Michael September 7, 2010 at 4:30 pm
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JPT you are a COMPLETE idiot.I was talking about me in that but trying to make others see I have to drive and am fighting to keep up in your “abled world” As mentioned since you havent been here you know absolutely nothing about what I have to face.Im not a liberal I speak from “being there “I often wonder what would happen if I get stuck somewhere with no method to contact anyone, just sit there and die I guess according to you.Youre about the most ignorant and I do mean that with sincerity about most things.You sputter at great lengths about this and that and accuse me blindly of your brand of ill without knowing what I have had to put up with.I can only wish upon you to be as I have had to face and then speak you bilk.You respect no one liar.You are whats wrong with the country and deserve all thats coming to you and dont believe me but its coming spawn of satan.You have no clue of hardship.I mentioned the good of having to be avle to contact help in an emergency but you oh no you have to twist it and offer spouting of lunacies that you dont even know what your talking about.If I ever met you Id climb out of this wheelchair and do my best to beat you into the ground but wait youve done that to yourself because even a blindman can spot your ills a mile away.You have NO compassion and by my own sweat of which I used to work 17 laborious hours per day I freely gave to those in need, something you couldnt understand.Everyone needs help and it seems your is mental.They have facilities for that by the way and it is free.So dont worry, your day is coming and I personally cant wait for bile like you.If ever there was one to call a fool, it would be you.ASSHOLE

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JPT September 7, 2010 at 8:46 pm
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Confucius Say:
“School boy who fool around with school girl during wrong period get caught wrong handed.” True wisdom!

I love you too Mike… :-D

Always playing the victim of life eh? I hear that a lot in dealing with people I meet from my volunteer work. But that is not any business of yours so that is all I will say.

Before he died of health effects, one of my better friends was bound to his wheelchair for over half a decade. The difference with him and you though is that he was not a whining bitch.

Life is so big and scary and tough- uh Mike? Actually you have been given all you need to learn what you must and grow from those lessons.

I can’t know what it is like to be you? Objectively of course I cannot. You are some screen name on the internet. You put up with so much and have such a hard lot in life… So what?

How can I ever know hardship and difficulty? You know not of what I myself have been through or not. I will not tell you either. Ha, ha! So get a life and get over it.

I am the ‘spawn of Satan’, a liar, a demon etc **Yawn** Heard it all before… Boring…

“Everyone needs help and it seems your is mental.They have facilities for that by the way and it is free.”

Thanks doc! I respect you learned opinion! BTW nothing is ‘free’ in case you did not get the message. People pay one way or the other.

Sounds to me like you have your ‘free’ phone but you are paying for it by being a bitter soul who likes to wallow is self pity and plays the victim. That and you prize, is some masochistic manner, your ‘hardship’ in life. Crying because you have no shoes while other men have no feet…
That is a very high and needless price to pay for your ‘free’ Government phone…

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Michael September 8, 2010 at 7:37 am
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Thanks JPT No sense argueing or debating with diahhrea such as you,Youre never going to understand as mentioned before.Youve managed to curse yourself and within a year or less you will join the ranks.Enlisted by design.Life isnt big and scary.Ive beaten more items than you can ever.I dont have a phone and cant afford one.Im not a whiner, where the hell did I whine?,I simply see you begrudge me finding a way to contact for emergencies but since you can only sympathize with your buddy, you dont know how he feels.Your a moron of the highest caliber.Youre a goverment treasonist and an oppressor of the people, its obvious.If you were in Iraq Id say friendly fire wouldve claimed you.No loss there.Hoo Rah ! Sounds to me though you are of a young age and unable to be an adult.Too bad you couldnt switch places with your mobile buddy.In my saying Im glad a service is provided to help with emergencies since fighting for your dumbass in a far away land.I find regret in service for at least one individual, you.Ive paid my high and needless price for your ability to rant on forums such as this.Maybe youd like Sharia law better, go live there and rant.Im not bitter because of my condition, only regret it had to be for someone like you.If youve heard all the words youve been called,there must be some validity to it.No worries,Im not going to come back to argue with diahrea mouth like yours.GO ahead rant make yourself look like you trying to be smart and only the smart ones will see through your ill.Im not going to waste anymore time than I have on you as you are not worth the weight of a finger to type.In a year or so when you join the ranks of the disabled,I hope you receive the full brunt of how others treat you and may the pain be 7 times over, so you can mouth then and remember your former ways.Think it wont happen and scoff now? Haha I remember You scoff at everything and disbelieve.You must be from conspiracyland.I think your a preaching closet radical Muslim.Sights are on you.No worries I wont be back to this site of bile where you seem to hang out.Lucky you.See you in the wheel world dummy.

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JPT September 8, 2010 at 2:31 pm
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Best to you pal. :lol:

Learn to use the space bar. Seriously.

Aside from that your mind, while warped, seems to at least process information. You should be able to find some work and then be able to buy a cell phone for your ‘emergency’ needs.

If you have enough time to type vicious threats back to strangers on the internet, you are not in such dire straits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZxVC0GB838

Nice to know you can still get worked up and pissed off over WORDS uh? You are weird… Your self control must have died long before your legs did. Hint: Be funny next time if you want a future reply from me.

I don’t look down on your because your legs are not working. Nor do your get ‘mercy’ or ‘sympathy’ out of the gate; I don’t know you so why should I pass those states on? You are just some prick on the net. I respect you enough to not put kid gloves on and to treat you just like anyone else who talks out of his or her ass. Enjoy the parity.

Just be happy you are in the USA with your ‘disability’ Here the trains and buses are all wheelchair accessible and every McDonald’s, per one example, or shopping center lets you roll up to the counter and then into a handicapped accessible bathroom. In many counties around the globe I have stepped off a plane into, such a basic standard of living does not exist; you’d be left to rot (sadly). Count your blessings and then work to make your life something that you want it to be instead of carping.

Hell even my new Kohler kitchen and bath fixtures (though not the selling point for why I wanted them) are ADA compliant as sold. That means they were built not just for able body people put for those with handicaps as well. That is just how many goods in the USA come now- no extra cost. And you still moan?

BTW Kohler Vault FTW. Get one and you will love it (ever body and not just this guy).
http://www.us.kohler.com/onlinecatalog/newproducts_detail.jsp?section=1&prod=Vault%20Kitchen%20Sinks%20-%20NP

I have the K-3821-4 sink with the K-6665-BN Water Filter Faucet and the K-10433-BN Main Pull Out Faucet… Amazing! You will not be disappointed.

Note the ADA labels all over the place on the line up:
http://www.us.kohler.com/onlinecatalog/product_result.jsp?module=Kitchen Sink Faucets&category=4&subcategory=32

Poor Mikey- he is the first person in the world to have hardship and the world within the USA is not set up in anyway to meet the ‘needs’ of one like him. Oh wait- it totally is.

Again, use the space bar. The longest key you see when you type, at the bottom of the keyboard, that is a rectangle: Press it some time! You can work up to the return key which lets one make paragraphs at some later lesson.

I enjoy your threats and toxic venom Mike. Good show! Still, do something more productive with your time.

Also, as I said before, get a Jitterbug
http://www.jitterbug.com/

You pay for it and then your ‘emergency’ needs are solved. Amazing how more solutions exist then real problems do, uh?

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fedup September 8, 2010 at 7:54 am
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I wonder how well programs like this will work once austerity measures kick in in the USA – like they have in Greece. Very soon the media will move away from breaking news reports about Paris Hilton’s purse, NFL blacked out games, and other fluff. I don’t know what the black swan event will be, but it’s coming at lightning speed.

Stop what you’re doing. Take a deep breath. Look around, and soak it in. Enjoy the peace and tranquility. This is the calm before the storm.

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