So what is up with Obamaphones?

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Homebrew
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So what is up with Obamaphones?

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Why should people be given cell phones?

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The original idea was to give people in remote areas with no means to pay for a phone line access to emergency services via a system managed by the phone companies which didn't cost the taxpayers a cent.

Somehow, over the last 30yrs, it's morphed into a multi - billion dollar program giving cell phones to mostly inner city folks in exchange for votes.

It's all Reagan's fault, though. Just remember that.
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Now it's "Safelink" - with 1000 free texts. In case you need to text someone in an emergency.

People must have been dying right and left before texting was available.
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The Obama supporters need them so they can tell each other how to get more free stuff, cheat on voter registration, avoid work, get accepted in gangs, find the dirtiest rap lyrics, locate whites to kill and otherwise continue to be fine, upstanding citizens.
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