Cons: Should free cell phones aka Obamaphones be renamed Reagenphones?

If you're looking for a job, you gotta have a phone. I pay about $70 a month (Canadian) and couldn't be without my cell phone. There are people that will abuse it, but a knee-jerk reaction against everyone is just plain stupid. The same people have no problem with spending taxpayer cash on building bombs that are useless against al-Qaida terrorists.

Maybe these people have a problem with poor people having telecommunications. If you can't call Rush Limbaugh, you don't truly exist. And that's the way some Republicans LIKE it. They'd prefer poor people to go away.

I'd gladly pay an extra $5 a month on my cell bill, if it might help someone find a job.

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Yes you are partly correct, but Reagan's Program was for a 'Land Line' and only for Local Calls. Plus, the costs involved were in the $20 to $30 dollar a month range per household.

Obamaphones are Cell/Mobile Phones that cost $200 per week per individual, not a household per month.

Back at you: Yes I know about 1985 since I was around at that time (I graduated High School in 1984 and voted for Reagan in 1984). I work with a guy that brags about his Obamaphone all the time. He goes to school part-time. His phone is a Boost Mobile Blackberry clone. I have seen his load-up cards that he gets and they do come from the AFDC, which is printed on them.

What a fool I've been, paying my own phone bill all these years. What was I thinking?! Now that I think about it, I've been a fool for working my butt off since I was 10. That's 47 years of paying taxes. I must be a complete idiot.

Call the phones anything you like. There are a lot of taxes on my phone bill, which I assume pay for phones for the needy. Gosh, I wonder what the needy did before telephones were invented?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9e3dTOJi0o

Liberal policies are bad NO MATTER where they originate from. And the program to get phones to very rural area predates Reagan anyway. The run away, no holds barred, shameless growth of a government program, that's big Zero's doing. So, your question should be, "Is more of a bad thing good when one of my leftist politicians ramps it up?".

No one used cell phones in 1985. LOL!

It's not just cons that think this crap.

I pointed this out the other day to someone and they were blown away that this program started decades ago.

Cellphones weren't even around in the 80's.

Right, because cell phones were so popular in 1985. Might as well call it Alexander Graham Bellphone.

Obama owns the name since he has expanded the users of these freebies 3 fold.