Re: Another Government give away

[JoeRaisin <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

mleuck wrote:
> On Nov 20, 12:16 pm, JoeRaisin <joeraisin2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Some folks work hard in order to afford luxuries such as a cellular phone.
>>
>> But now, if you are lazy and prefer to live on the government dole
>> (perhaps for a span of multiple generations) that's no reason you can't
>> get in on modern technology.
>>
>> Now (as of September this year) if you are on Medicaid, live in public
>> housing of get food stamps, you can get a free phone (provided by
>> TracPhon - which is not a new program) and the government will be happy
>> to pay for over an hour of talk time every month (which IS new).
>
> Won't happen, like the flu vaccine the government will botch the
> distribution  of the cell phones causing months if not years of delay

Government has nothing to do with the phones - those are given out by
TracPhon.  The government just pays the monthly bills.  TracPhon has
been doing this on their own for a while.