Free Cell Phones for the Poor

[DVINNY]

Sapper,

your letter would be perfect. I like that.

Sadly, I saw a commercial for this very program yesterday. I think I lost a month off my life, but other than that I took it OK.

 

[Dleg]

I can't believe this is real. I;d like to hear the rationale behind this, but I can't imagine any good reason to spend taxpayer's money on cellphones for the poor. I don't even have a freaking cellphone, simply because I have deemed it an unnecessary expense in my current situation. I seem to be doing just fine without one, too.

 

[DVINNY]

Dleg,

I seriously watched the commercial saying "if you already receive government assistance like welfare, medicaid, blah blah blah then you probably qualify for this government sponsored program"

^ it made me throw up in my mouth a little

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Thanks to this thread, my Friday has just been ruined.

Then my work here is done!

At our place everyone gets one so you have no place to hide if they want to find you.

I've turned down jobs that require beepers or cell phones. Life outside of work is mine.

 

[Road Guy]

why not "Free Yachts for the middle class"

 

[Chucktown PE]

Yeah, my boat is really not doing too good. I have had it outside and uncovered all winter. Part of the deck is rotten and needs to be reinforced. I don't even want a yacht, just a new 23' center console, w/ T tops, and twin 150 Hp 4 cycle outboards, GPS, depth finder, and trim tabs. Where is the gubment program where I can sign up for that?

 

[csb]

I've got a work cellphone...that tends to get left places when it's crappy battery runs down.

I like Sapper's letter. I'd love to see the response.

 

[McEngr]

I've got a work cellphone...that tends to get left places when it's crappy battery runs down.
I like Sapper's letter. I'd love to see the response.

Wow. Now it's not even if you're conservative or liberal; or republican or democrat. If the money is paying for stupid people to stay in their stupid position in life, then neither should be for it.

Why the government feels the need to be a charity organization is beyond me - especially of this luxury.

 

[csb]

You know, I really thought about this this morning. I was thinking, "Why doesn't the government give me a cellphone?" and then I thought about how I could never accept it, because I didn't feel like I had earned it. That's the big huge difference in some of these instances. I don't think I deserve everything I want from the government. I pay taxes for a few services, but there has got to be a point where I step in. I worked at a ranch for awhile where we got room and board, but on days where we were off, we didn't get fed because it was "You don't work, you don't eat." Fair enough. I used to be kinda for higher taxes for the wealthy, but that's just putting me in the same boat as welfare folks who want free phones from my money.

Argh. eb.com has me thinking again...

 

[Capt Worley PE]

I wouldn't take it either csb, as I wouldn't have earned it.

My sister went on WIC when she had her first kid. Didn't need it, but she qualified and heard, "well, you might as well take advantage of it, you're paying for it" so many times she felt like she had too. Didn't do it for her second kid. She said she just felt wrong taking something she didn't need that others were paying for.

I wish a lot more people felt that way.

 

[DVINNY]

It's a feeling that you are born with. Even in High School, I hated asking my parents for money. I usually tried to leverage my cash by mowing lawns, shoveling snow, etc.

I had a paper route for a while, and some other odd jobs.

I hated asking for $$ since I was young.

 

[Chucktown PE]

Same with me DV (kind of). My brothers and I are all very independent. My dad told us from the time we could understand that by age 18 we would either be in college making A's and B's (and he would pay) or out of the house and paying rent with no help whatsoever. None of us ever tested him on it. My brothers in law however would still be sucking on the *** if it were acceptable. I've finally gotten my wife to stop accepting crap but my in-laws still pay both of their car payments and one of their house payments. I think they feel guilty that they don't give us **** or something.

And I didn't know your sister was married to a GnR guy?

 

[Capt Worley PE]

That fire was unreal. I've seen a lot of reports and raw footage on it. Some major changes in the IBC because of it.

 

[McEngr]

You guys bring up an excellent point about even accepting the phone. If one feels "entitled" to the free phone, then there's no telling what other things they feel entitled to either. I would even go so far as to say that one could, and probably more often than not, feel entitled to things that don't belong to them. I believe there's something that occurs in the mind and heart that says, "I will take all I can." It's not American.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

You guys bring up an excellent point about even accepting the phone. If one feels "entitled" to the free phone, then there's no telling what other things they feel entitled to either.

I think that's true. You get conditioned to accept something and you start to feel more stuff is owed to you. I'm probably not explaining it too well.

 

[chaosiscash]

and then I thought about how I could never accept it, because I didn't feel like I had earned it.

You'd never make it as a fed subcontractor.

 

[Chucktown PE]

Kind of like stem cell researchers. They get that first government grant and then they get conditioned to expect that they need another.

 

[csb]

^ OH NO HE DIDN'T!

 

[FLBuff PE]

^ OH NO HE DIDN'T!

Oh, yes he did. I thought you were familiar with Chucktown.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Oh, yes he did!