From WiscoDave, this shit doesn't even phase me anymore. The corruption of America's soul is so deep and pervasive, I'm beginning to think the "let it burn" theory is the only way to cleanse it and start over.
'You gonna own it,' he says in O'Keefe's video
footage. 'But if you sell it, you can tell the person that they will have a
phone for every month. Every month for the next year they will have a phone.
They ain't got to worry about [a] phone. There's no bills.'
There are, in fact, bills, but they are
covered by Americans who pay for their own phone service. Both land line and
mobile bills in all 50 states and the District of Columbia include a Federal
Universal Service Charge, a portion of which subsidizes the
program.
That makes the program a handout to both
lower-income Americans and the companies that supply the phones. To many on the
political right, the enterprise has been twisted beyond any semblance of its
original purpose.
Like industry leader TracFone, which has
received more than $1.5 billion - including $440 million in 2012 alone - to
provide phones to 3.9 million recipients, StandUp and Terracom behave more like
corporate titans than good Samaritans.
TracFone is owned by Mexican multibillionaire
Carlos Slim Helu.
Stand Up Wireless's parent company, Global
Connection Inc. of America, has collected more than $38 million for its
subsidized phones. The company itself is owned by Milestone Partners, a venture
capital firm based in Radnor, Pennsylvania.
The Oklahoma-based TerraCom Wireless has
harvested a total of $168 million for its participation across 23 states. Its
self-described 'sister company,' YourTel America, Inc., has reaped nearly
another
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I own a TracFone. On my third, actually. The individual phones are cheap enough as to be disposable if necessary(the only reason I'm not on my 4th is because if I'd smashed the 3rd as a demonstration, I would have lost all the contacts in it... I should still fix that...) and if you don't do much calling it's one of the best deals I've found.
But it's on my dime.
Have to make sure everyone has a phone, can't collect your data if you don't have one.
Well, if we had the courtesy to allow them to microchip us it would make their job a lot easier.
Sarc-gasm///!
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