Originally posted by SoothfastSince when is telephonic communication a given right in any country?
I'm skeptical, but I'd have to read up on the whys and wherefores.
It is part of the liberal agenda pure and simple.
Plus it makes it easier to contact them to let them know what time they will pick them
up to get them to the voting polls.
Plus the fact that all cell phones are gps trackable.
If you can't afford a tracking device, we'll give you one...free!!
14 Jul 11
Originally posted by FMFConservatives wouldn't go for subsidizing the poor for anything except the essentials: Food, water and shelter.
Dead right. Conservatives wouldn't piddle around with cell phones. They'd go for laptops or something.
Even then conservatives wouldn't subsidize at as high a rate as liberals.
So no, I don't think conservatives would subsidize laptops for the poor. Subsizing laptops for oil companies, now that's a horse of a different color! I think many conservatives in the US would jump at the chance at the government giving even more money to oil companies!
14 Jul 11
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Originally posted by FMFActually they wouldn't piddle around with that either. Earmarks, and/or laws that favor certain groups or industries, are where it's at for Republicans and Democrats alike.
Dead right. Conservatives wouldn't piddle around with cell phones. They'd go for laptops or something.
14 Jul 11
Originally posted by EladarI had Newt Gincrich in mind. Certainly a 'conservative', I reckon.
Conservatives wouldn't go for subsidizing the poor for anything except the essentials: Food, water and shelter.
Even then conservatives wouldn't subsidize at as high a rate as liberals.
So no, I don't think conservatives would subsidize laptops for the poor.
15 Jul 11
Originally posted by EladarThis is small potatos compared to the Federal Government subsidizing oil companies who clearly don't need it!
It's here, at least in Oklahoma. I was shocked to see the commercials on TV. Here's the link:
http://www.gotruewireless.com/?gclid=CLL2kbWX_6kCFRHGKgodrV0kzw
Do other countries take money away from people enable the poor to get cheap cell phone service?
15 Jul 11
Originally posted by bill718So it's OK to waste money on programs aimed at subsidizing cell phone companies because the government wastes bigger bucks in other places?
This is small potatos compared to the Federal Government subsidizing oil companies who clearly don't need it!
No wonder this country is in such a mess. No one is willing to make a bunch of smaller cuts. All we can do is say "we can waste money here because it isn't much".
People with this attitude have no hope of being financially responsible. They are left to believe that they are in debt and simply can't do anything about it. A common attitude today to say the least.