“Phone Stamps”: Food Stamps Now Come With Free Phones
The food stamp program is in fact a food card program. To keep things efficient (and anonymous), welfare clients are issued their own debit cards for food. The stores get the digital money instantly.
This is now costing taxpayers $75 billion a year.
But add to this another $2 billion. Why? Because people on the food card program are eligible to have a free cell phone.
The general public does not know this. But even if they did, they would not protest. The voters are so completely guilt-manipulated that they will not protest, no matter how big the welfare state gets. We are way beyond the point of no return. The bills keep rising.
The federal government’s free cell phone program is called Lifeline. You are eligible if you get Medicaid, food cards, Head Start, and other federal programs.
Think of Lifeline as “phone stamps.”
It has been around for over 25 years.
You pay for it: the “Universal Service Charge” that is added to your phone bill.
Since 2000, the program has been booming.
In 2008, there were about 7 million participants. In 2009, this went to 8.6 million. That year, payments went over $1 billion. It is now growing fast. It’s around $2 billion now.
About 10% of the phone stamp people are ineligible. In some states, it’s twice this: Alabama, New Hampshire, and West Virginia.
The FCC is considering upgrading the free phones to smartphones.
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Published on June 15, 2012. The original is here.
Three months later, this video was posted on YouTube.
It went viral. It has been viewed by 9.8 million people.
This program was originally ridiculed by Republicans as the Obamaphone program. But it is now accepted by Republicans. It is no longer controversial. It is considered a legal right. The program is bigger and better than ever. There is even a website that tracks the latest news on the program: www.Obamaphone.com.
Every welfare program becomes acceptable to Republicans within one Congressional election cycle. Democrats know this.
Get ready for 2021.