Who needs phones more than the dead?
Remember the ‘Obamaphone’ lady?
The Obamaphone Lady, who as far as we know hasn’t been otherwise identified, is a middle-aged black woman with a loud, gravelly voice. She exuberantly explains why she supports President Obama’s re-election: “Everybody in Cleveland [unintelligible] minority got Obama phone! Keep Obama in president, you know? He gave us a phone!”
The ‘Obamaphone’ program is more officially known as the ‘Lifeline’ program, subsidized phones for the ‘disadvantaged’ at taxpayer expense.
Who’s paying for it? You are. When you see various fees on your bill like the ‘Universal Service Fund (USF) Fee’, that’s the cash you’re paying out to subsidize the Obamaphones for welfare queens and other people who don’t want to work.
Every time I’m in an urban center, it doesn’t take long for me to spot the ‘Free Phone’ and ‘Free Health Care’ stands at streetcorners, at Walmart and in pharmacies.
But at least you’re also paying for Obamaphones for the dead.
California obtained millions in federal funds to cover phone and internet service for 94,000 dead people, a new report from the Federal Communications Commission has revealed.
The state took in $3.8 million between 2020 and 2025 through the federal Lifeline program, which spends nearly $1 billion annually to subsidize phone and internet service for low-income Americans, according to the FCC’s inspector general.
Of the 116,808 deceased individuals in opt-out states, roughly two-thirds (77,446) died after they were enrolled, the report stated.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr would like to bring out the dead, but Democrats are protesting the move claiming that it will make it harder for more welfare queens to get Obamaphones. --->READ MORE HERE
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr accused California Gov. Gavin Newsom of “misleading the public” after the state denied wrongdoing in a federal investigation that found millions in taxpayer dollars were paid out for phone lines tied to dead people.
California obtained millions in federal funds to cover phone and internet service for 94,000 dead people, a new report from the FCC revealed.
“For one, California’s response says that people simply passed away after they were enrolled. But the IG’s advisory specifically identified the tens of thousands of people that were enrolled after they had already died,” Carr wrote in a post on X.
Carr’s comments came after Newsom posted “The facts!” from the California Public Utilities Commission, which said people sometimes die while enrolled in the federal Lifeline program and cited the FCC report as showing most deaths occurred after enrollment.
Carr said that response only raised more questions.
“California says that ‘any improper payments largely reflect lag time between a death and account closure,’” he wrote. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
+++++FCC’s Carr, Newsom Clash Over California Payouts to Dead People+++++
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