Cafeoutdoors.com: Geez....

Aha, P-Diddy, more information has arisen. Allow me to clarify the "Obamaphone" situation:

The federal Lifeline program provided free land-line phones to the poor under the rationale that folks need them to call 911 (lots of 911-calling in the ghetto). Trouble is, land line phones aren't cool and, well, you gotta own or rent a crib with a wall to plug 'em into - so the program was limited, not too costly, and probably did some good.

The Obama Administration expanded the Lifeline program to give the poor free cell phones and cell phone service - and the program exploded. Well yeah, cell phones are cool and they expedite "commerce" in the 'hood - now you can call your 'ho, your pimp, your drug dealer, and they're oh so handy for burglary and robbery lookouts and getaway drivers.

EIGHT MILLION people are now being given free cell phones and cell phone service by our government at a cost of $200 per recipient per year. I'm guessing about 7,999,995 of them are Obama supporters.

But wait, there's more. The government buys the phones from TracFone, whose controlling owner is "Carlos Slim", the Mexican telecom tycoon and world's richest man. TracFone gets a great deal of money from our government for supplying these phones and services - and how that ties in with the open U.S. border, the Obama Administration's refusal to enforce immigration laws, and drug trafficking from Mexico ...... who knows? Maybe there's nothing dirty there at all, but at the very least why in hell would our government spend this money with a foreign-owned company so the profits leave the U.S.?

Now, TracFone's President and CEO is Frederick "F.J." Pollak, who is real tight with President Obama (surprise!). As reported by Fox: "Pollak has donated at least $156,500 to Democratic candidates and committees this cycle, including at least $50,000 to the Obama campaign. His wife, Abigail, is a campaign bundler for Obama and has raised more than $632,000 for the president this cycle, and more than $1.5 million since 2007. She has personally contributed more than $200,000 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2008." Pretty easy to make big political donations with the U.S. Government dumping billions on your company.

So yes, Obama is giving lots of free "Obamaphone" cellphones to the poor, funded by a surcharge (federal tax) on our phone bills - and that buys him votes. The extorted money, $1.6 billion a year and rising, goes to a company whose President and CEO is one of Obama's major sources of funding. And hey, if our Prez wants any favors for friends and supporters involving Mexico he doesn't have to deal with the weak and corrupt Mexican government - he can call "Carlos Slim".

You can imagine how hard it will be for any politician to undo this program in the future: OMG, he's taking away 911 access from the POOR - think of the CHILDREN!

This deal is so perfectly corrupt you've almost got to admire it. The new Chicago bunch in charge makes Al Capone look like a piker, huh?

Here's the link to the story:

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