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« on: December 04, 2011, 06:56:06 PM » |
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Last week the parking lot of a local fast food establishment was packed with people standing four abreast all the way around the building. I thought man they must be have a good sale. When I got closer I saw a large trailer with a sign on the side that said "FREE CELL PHONE WITH MINUTES TO ALL THAT QUALIFY". The line was steady ALL day! Cell phones are not how I want the Government to spend my tax money! Locals are calling them "Obama Phones". My butt is still chapped.
Steve
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resembalance to the first. - Ronald Reagan
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asprince
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« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2011, 07:06:12 PM » |
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The money comes from a back door tax "universal service fee". http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/the-obama-phone/Steve |
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resembalance to the first. - Ronald Reagan
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kathyp
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« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2011, 09:53:51 PM » |
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i'd bet anything that this is another ACORN administered project and/or done through the state. bet she voted for Obama too.
oh...and you probably want to thank that democrat controlled congress that has oversight and funds these things?
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"Nay, it [this constitution of government] must perish, if there be not that vital spirit in the people, which alone can nourish, sustain, and direct all its movements. It is in vain, that statesmen shall form plans of government, in which the beauty and harmony of a republic shall be embodied in visible order, shall be built up on solid substructions, and adorned by every useful ornament, if the inhabitants suffer the silent power of time to dilapidate its walls, or crumble its massy supporters into dust; if the assaults from without are never resisted, and the rottenness and mining from within are never guarded against. Who can preserve the rights and liberties of the people, when they shall be abandoned by themselves? Who shall keep watch in the temple, when the watchmen sleep at their posts? Who shall call upon the people to redeem their possessions, and revive the republic, when their own hands have deliberately and corruptly surrendered them to the oppressor, and have built the prisons, or dug the graves of their own friends?
– Justice Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," Volume II, Chapter XIII: Mode of Passing Laws, Sections 900-901, pp. 364 (1833)
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kathyp
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« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2011, 10:13:23 PM » |
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ok, it was the 1974 congress who did the program and that congress was....wait for it.....democrat. in addition, the 1974 congress did the initial program that was the.....wait for it.....Housing and Community Development Act which was updated under the democrat 1994 congress and called the Community Reinvestment Act....which led to....wait for it.....the housing collapse!!
man, that bush guy was just evil.
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"Nay, it [this constitution of government] must perish, if there be not that vital spirit in the people, which alone can nourish, sustain, and direct all its movements. It is in vain, that statesmen shall form plans of government, in which the beauty and harmony of a republic shall be embodied in visible order, shall be built up on solid substructions, and adorned by every useful ornament, if the inhabitants suffer the silent power of time to dilapidate its walls, or crumble its massy supporters into dust; if the assaults from without are never resisted, and the rottenness and mining from within are never guarded against. Who can preserve the rights and liberties of the people, when they shall be abandoned by themselves? Who shall keep watch in the temple, when the watchmen sleep at their posts? Who shall call upon the people to redeem their possessions, and revive the republic, when their own hands have deliberately and corruptly surrendered them to the oppressor, and have built the prisons, or dug the graves of their own friends?
– Justice Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," Volume II, Chapter XIII: Mode of Passing Laws, Sections 900-901, pp. 364 (1833)
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BlueBee
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« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2011, 10:20:05 PM » |
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And the outstanding Republican President in 1974 with veto power was……???
"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican." Dan Quayle.
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Scadsobees
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« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2011, 10:25:01 PM » |
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Actually, the "Universal Service Fraud" was an Al Gore invention. I guess he needed it to push his other invention, the "internet".  My butt's not only been chapped but had eczema about that one for years and years . To the point that I cut my phone service to a minimum even then they kept expanding it. |
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kathyp
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« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2011, 10:51:04 PM » |
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and the democrat president in '94 when they doubled down on the program was?? i know it's loads of fun to blame everything on bush especially when there is such a loser in the WH right now, but the fact is, i can't even blame obama for all the crap that's gone on the last 3 years. obama just got very lucky to have had such a majority in congress the first 2 years and was able to do damage with congressional blessing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93rd_United_States_Congresshere is the makeup of the '74 congress. as i recall, the super majority was almost never required at that time. maybe someone remembers better. and the '94 congress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/103rd_United_States_Congress |
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"Nay, it [this constitution of government] must perish, if there be not that vital spirit in the people, which alone can nourish, sustain, and direct all its movements. It is in vain, that statesmen shall form plans of government, in which the beauty and harmony of a republic shall be embodied in visible order, shall be built up on solid substructions, and adorned by every useful ornament, if the inhabitants suffer the silent power of time to dilapidate its walls, or crumble its massy supporters into dust; if the assaults from without are never resisted, and the rottenness and mining from within are never guarded against. Who can preserve the rights and liberties of the people, when they shall be abandoned by themselves? Who shall keep watch in the temple, when the watchmen sleep at their posts? Who shall call upon the people to redeem their possessions, and revive the republic, when their own hands have deliberately and corruptly surrendered them to the oppressor, and have built the prisons, or dug the graves of their own friends?
– Justice Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," Volume II, Chapter XIII: Mode of Passing Laws, Sections 900-901, pp. 364 (1833)
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