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Are Cell Phones a Civil Right? In Penn., Apparently Yes

The state of Pennsylvania says having a cell phone is a civil right.

That’s according to an obviously opinionated report from the New York Post:

Recently, a federal government program called the Universal Service Fund came to the Keystone State and some residents are thrilled because it means they can enjoy 250 minutes a month and a handset for free, just because they don’t have the money to pay for it. Through Assurance Wireless and SafeLink from Tracfone Wireless these folks get to reach out and touch someone while the cost of their service is paid for by everyone else. You see, the telecommunications companies are funding the Universal Service Fund to the tune of $4 billion a year because the feds said they have to and in order to recoup their money, the companies turn around and hike their fees to paying customers. But those of use paying for the free service for the poor, should be happy about this infuriating situation, says Gary Carter, manager of national partnerships for Assurance, because “the program is about peace of mind.“ Free cell service means ”one less bill that someone has to pay, so they can pay their rent or for day care…it is a right to have peace of mind,” Cater explained.

But phone companies may not be exactly on board with providing these services. An article from the San Francisco Chronicle says providers just want the government to reduce fees they pay to make phone services work in remote, especially rural, areas.

Some, naturally, like the idea. One Pennsylvania website devoted to the free cell phone agreements explains who could benefit from the new phone plan and how to find out if you’re eligible:

The fact is, a lot of Pennsylvania residents could use a little help right now. As of May 2011 the unemployment rate is a disappointing 7.4%. The fact that that is lower than the national average is of little solace to those Keystone Staters who find themselves without a steady income.

Fear not, Pennsylvanians. The Lifeline phone service program can help you get a free cell phone and free monthly minutes, from the government. At least that is one less bill to pay.

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You are eligible if you receive benefits from any of these programs in Pennsylvania:

  • Federal Public Housing Assistance / Section 8
  • Food Stamps
  • Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
  • Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
  • National School Lunch (free program only)
  • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
  • Medicaid
  • State Blind Pension

You may also qualify if your Total Household Income is at or under 135% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines.

Kind of reminds you of Jesse Jackson Jr’s call for free iPods and laptops, doesn’t it?

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  • FreeGovernmentCellPhones.net
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:12am

    You mentioned our website, FreeGovernmentCellPhones.net, in your article as an information source for the program, and linked to our page for Pennsylvania. There are actually 36 states, plus Puerto Rico and D.C. that participate in the program.

    http://www.freegovernmentcellphones.net/states

    You may think that we believe that free cell phones are a civil right. You’d be wrong. While we back the program, with controls, to believe it is a right is absurd. In fact, we wrote an article slamming this idea in our blog on Monday, before Drudge, Beck and others jumped on the story. You can read it here:

    http://www.freegovernmentcellphones.net/is-a-free-cell-phone-a-civil-right

    Look, many people are out of work in this horrible economy, and a cell phone helps people stay in contact with potential employers. They only get 250 minutes (and only 68 minutes in some states), and if anyone tries to text message with them, it eats into the 250 minutes. They are not made for casual users. Anyone abusing the program would run out of minutes in a day. The program is designed for people that really need it.

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    • Biff Marupis
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:31am

      We have the right to “Life, Liberty, and the PURSUIT of happiness” Whether we find that happiness is entirely up to each individual. I’m tired to this government yanking on my wallet to provide perceived rights to others. Get out of our wallets AND our lives!

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    • mils
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:40am

      Biff Marupis
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:31am

      We have the right to “Life, Liberty, a
      **************************
      I agree with you…this is ridiculous. This is just one more example of the “gimme” crap we have going on in our country…Obama wants you dependent on the government, and he’s doing a good job of it…these people need to be in a public ;program that makes them work for the public in some capacity while they take our money.

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    • bubbamoosecat
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:45am

      I once worked as a foreman at a place where my subordinates would have been considered to be “working poor” and qualified for these phones. All of them had high-end phones from the big cell phone companies. When the free cell phone program started, they got these IN ADDITION to their other phones, and gave the free phone to their kids to use.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:50am

      It’s not right that everyone else has to pay for it. It’s that simple.

      There is no justification for stealing from others to support yourself.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:51am

      @bubbamoosecat

      Exactly. People have no respect for that which they do not earn.

      This group is teaching people a very dangerous lesson. Shameful.

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    • highcarry
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:56am

      then do this. make it a rule that in order to get this free phone and minutes, they have to record all job contacts with it and provide it monthly. this could give you the opportunity to show us all how wrong we are.

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    • USAMama
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 11:03am

      Amen Smithclar! I also worked with a girl who had a very similar situation, except she lived in OH and claimed to live in PA under a friends address. Cost of living in OH is much cheaper, but PA has better benefits. Her kids were on PA Chip (children’s health insurance program) even tho our company offered benefits. She got food stamps, WIC, housing benefits etc. Her boyfriend lived with her unmarried and they had 2 kids (which they got benefits for) but of course the gov’tdidbt know that. He made very good $. They both drove new cars while I got to work in a clunker that broke down often and I would have to get rides from friends or family. I volunteered for overtime, worked holidays etc just for the time and a half pay because I needed it. She refused to work a minute past her schedule because, and she said this, if she made too much money it would effect her “benefits.” her kids were in state subsidized daycare while my husband and I had to stagger shifts and rely on family because we couldn’t afford daycare even with both of us working. She openly bragged that her boyfriend asked her repeatedly to marry him but her answer was “what do you think I am, crazy? If we got married I’d lose my benefits!” It really is frustrating to be an honest worker and watch these cheaters live the life on YOUR dime!!

      My sister in law also moved here 3 yrs ago from GA cause she was young and had a baby out of we’d lock and PA had better benefits, but after 2 yrs she married & mov

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    • knockered
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 11:19am

      Just continue to take away the need to better yourself and we will become like all those other nations that sit back and cry about their miserable lifes. Why bother to better yourself when the government will make it easy for you. Just look at all the low income people, most have no motivation to better themselves whatsoever.. It’s becoming a sorry state of affairs in this country.

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    • Ronko
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 11:26am

      Damn it PA, it’s not a right to own a phone, nor is it a right to own any phone in the USA. It‘s not in the Constitution and until it is then it’s not a right.

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    • PossumRoadkill
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:06pm

      Thank you for clearing that up. For some reason, I just don‘t buy what you’re selling in your comments. In my state, I pay taxes on my cell phone bill that goes towards this kind of program. I also pay taxes on my land line phone for them to have a land line phone. I also pay taxes on my phone bill and my internet bill (separate companies) to provide them with internet service. All of this on the backs of me and other people like me. I feel very lucky to have a job, but I have not had a COLA in 5 years. My insurance rates at work and for my 11 year old car have gone up every year. Every utility bill I have has gone up every year. The food and other products have gone up every year. I am just above the poverty level and if these Federal programs and Obama economy keep up, I will be at the poverty level pretty soon. So I ask you, where is my damn free cell phone? Where is my free ride on everything? Why does our Federal Government seem to think that everything is now a civil right if it’s a “poor” person. They live in a nicer house and drive a newer car than I do because my taxes are paying everything else for them.

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    • Wishkah
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:32pm

      you still do not seem to grasp the concept that you are taking without permission from others to be able to give to the few who have not EARNED it. That is just plain socialism. It would be completely different if you were able to do this from voluntary donations…. but you don’t .. you steal from others.. which is the deffinition of taking without permission.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:40pm

      99% of the users of section 8 have no desire for a job. The thing that it keeps them in touch with is their dealer. And I again get to pay for it!

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    • Brizz
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:51pm

      Help for those who need it and stimulus for drug dealers, pimps, prostitues, and flash mob violence.

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    • oohisis
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:53pm

      I understand the justification system you are using for this program. HOWEVER, IF people need help to this degree, than there should be a fund or an option for those who pay for their phone service to contribute to it. Perhaps companies could have the option to contribute to it with the pitch of possibly finding an employee in the future. Don’t really care how it is done..but charity is the route to go. Not through another program that is not going to be managed. We already spend as a country over 4 BILLION a year just paying people to oversee and to regulate such programs and companies…IT all has to go till we can figure out who is truly worthy of help. There are way too many people who will take anything for free even if it means taking out of the hands of a handicapped child (because they don’t see, therefore don’t care how their actions are hurting others and this country).

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    • Seabee79
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 1:20pm

      FreeGovernmentCellPhones.net

      I live in Pa and see your stupid ads on TV all the time for this program. to think having a cell phone will help people get a job is crazy.
      How the hell do you think people did it in the 50,60,70,80,?????? the employer called their home phone. nuff said. I am god damn tired of paying for everyone else in the freaking world to have something.
      You freaking progressive communist douche bags should do us all a favor and leave the country.

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    • My Two Cents
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 1:44pm

      Take your free to anyone but the guy who is paying the bill phone and go pound sand.

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    • me85
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 1:44pm

      Owning a cell phone is not a right it is a privilege. Owning a house is not a right, having cable or the internet is not a right. The only right we have is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We are created equal, doesn’t necessary mean we will stay equal.

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    • jokar
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 1:45pm

      I lived without a cell phone for plenty of years (because I couldn’t afford it) and got along just fine. I also didn’t have cable or Wii or a plasma tv for the same reason….which plenty of these families seem able to afford. I work with them so I know.

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    • Joan of Snark
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 3:09pm

      This is absolute b.s. Many of us do not have things like a cell phone because we can’t afford to pay for one. But because we work hard and pay our own way somehow progressive liberals think that means we can afford to also pay for the poor choices of others.

      B.S.

      B.S.

      B.S.

      Your cell phone, your Viagra, your mortgage and anything else is NOT my problem.

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    • RepublicAnn
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 3:12pm

      If the people are out of work, they’re sitting at home and they can use their home phones.

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    • TPaine
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 4:10pm

      WHO is paying for these phones? Welfare is supposed to be only for those who need it. Just like your cell phones. I can’t afford my cell phone, but I manage to squeak out the minimum (T-Mobile, pay-as-you-go, $15 at a pop and only for emergencies), so can I have one of your free phones? You say it’s not a right, and then tell us that everyone has a right to keep in touch. WTF is it?

      Now I want a free cell phone, and free cable and a Wi-Fi connection, and a free Kindle… You just don’t get it, do you? I‘m paying for someone else’s free phone because I’m not a leech.

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    • johnannegalt
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 11:00pm

      LOL! What a JOKE. I think I just vomited in my mouth. Please, have a dose of common sense, I’m offering it up in two sources, for free!

      Read Atlas Shrugged

      or read http://markamerica.com/2011/08/02/what-sort-of-freedom-do-you-seek/

      Your own twisted way of thinking not only enslaves you, but the rest of us. I’m ready to throw these dang shackles off.

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on August 5, 2011 at 12:20am

      Don’t try to reason with these people–it just infuriates them, like smiling at a gorilla. They think the display of teeth is a sign of aggression and dominance.

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    • kravitz
      Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:31am

      There have been full page ads in the newspapers for months…..who pays for that? There are radio and TV ads promoting these plans. Again, do we full- pay subscribers pay for that too?
      You forgot to mention….for an additional payment by the subscriber of only 20 dollars a month….they can get UNLIMITED minutes and texts. They can keep their phone numbers too! So obviously, they already have phone service if they can keep their phone numbers. DUH??
      I can’t afford unlimited text and minute plans myself….and I work 7 days a week.

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    • IIIcorp
      Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:56am

      This should not be a Federal program, but a state program. Why should my tax money pay for a luxury like a cell phone for anyone? I am already having my tax money paying for people that don’t want to work, women with 4 kids and 3 different fathers. When do people take responsibility for their own lives and actions? I have no problem helping the infirm and elderly, but the young, capable of work (any job) people need to step up.

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    • doodad
      Posted on August 5, 2011 at 11:40am

      Yeah, ok. I bet the program, like every other gubment program goes primarily to women and minorities, whether they are “needy” or not. This lousy gubment states that you are a “victim” if you were born with the correct naughty bits and/or a definable amount of melanin. In other words: “Not fo’ you, crackah-ass-crackah man!”

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  • pavnvet
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:12am

    What is worse is these phone companies are advertising on radio and local TV for business. It makes me want to barf….I use only about 200 minutes a month for a family plan so my 88 year old mom has a cell phone and Verizon charges me $84 a month…so some bas**** who has no shame, can talk for 6 hours a month to his drug dealer or other out of work buddies? Fine, give them a phone that can dial 911 and that is it…And, who keeps track of when these low-lifes aren’t eligible anymore? How much do you want to bet, they will have lifetime service???

    We are truly losing our minds in this country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I can remember as a young kid, we couldn’t afford a phone. Then as things got better we had a party line and we finally arrived when we were hooked up with private line. But,my dad paid for it!

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:53am

      I got a flyer on my door that anyone receiving SSI or Welfare could get a free phone (but they would have to pay for the texting, not included in the package). I had to wonder if it would have a GPS chip in it so the government could tell where all the welfare recipients were. I wasn’t paranoid until this administration. and it‘s not because he’s black, but because he’s a marxist.

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    • SECUREOURBORDERSNOW
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 11:36am

      Exactly a phone that calls 911 only. Another “redistribution of wealth” taking from me (live in PA and I will be contacting my legislators) and redistributing it to those who just sit back and wait for government assistance to roll in. Disgusting. Vote all D’s out in 2012. Anybody but Obama, 2012.

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    • 4blackhorses
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 7:06pm

      PAVNET,

      I hear ya on that buddy. I’ve got 150 minutes a month on mygreatcall cell. The cost is reasonble, about $20 bucks a month. Keeping within those minutes not so reasonable as I just barely creep over the amount and charged 30 cents for every minute. The next plan up is 400 minutes at $40 a month, a plan that is more than I can use. Naturally they don’t have one in betwen, say a 200 one.
      I switched to a cell to get away from the exhorbitant fees the land line I was using was charging me.

      If these free cells were even available in my state, I did the math. I’d be ineligible simply from the yearly Social Security income I draw as my “income.”

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  • ProudTeaPartyMember
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:11am

    Sometimes, there are no words to express my disgust.

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  • smithclar3nc3
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:01am

    If cell phones are a CIVIL right that means everyone qualifies for a free cell phone. The ACLU argued and won that cable is a CIVIL RIGHT as well. Soi that means everyone is entitled to free cable…..
    Civil rights are The rights belonging to an individual by virtue of citizenship, especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
    Every citizen is entitled to anything deemed a Civil right

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:14am

      This is absolute lunacy. We have been given the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. No one ever said you would achieve happiness. This give away crap has got to stop. No one needs to be entitled to free anything. The more free stuff the government gives away, the more enslaved we all become.

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  • inexiletill2012
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:00am

    So to should be free cable service. After all they need to know of “emergencys” and while we are at it lets give them free public transportation also. And lets move unemployment benifits to 3 years.
    OR
    quit giving away the farm !

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  • helena
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:58am

    Hey, don’t objective too strongly, we, ourselves, may be in the same situation if this economy keeps on tanking the way it is now.

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    • Spock
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:29am

      Better buy yourself lots of black shoe polish!

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    • USAMama
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 11:15am

      That’s the goal, then we can all be so “privileged”. I’ve seen the section 8 housing around here, drug dealers on every corner, gun shots ringing out through the night, little kids (even toddlers) running around dirty and barefoot with no adult in sight, a park that they can‘t even play in cause it’s full of drug dealers, urine and used condoms…. no thanks!! I would pitch a tent in the woods before I would live there!! Unfortunately if Agenda 21 continues this will be the life for everyone as they move us out of the suburbs and rural areas and close off all forests.

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  • stpppim
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:24am

    As collectivized rights grow individual rights shrink.
    If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of the right to their own life.
    Why are we sitting back and accepting this cannibalism as MORAL?

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  • Larissa
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:24am

    You can get a free land line here in KS if you have any of the services listed. Yet, once the phone company has you listed they keep calling & trying to get you to sign up for “other” services. A young lady I know has a learning disability & doesn’t know a scam, she ended up owing over $300 for the extra services.

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  • Kerri g
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:22am

    This makes me sick. I grew up poor. No free breakfast or lunch at school. I was lucky to get anything at dinner time. No free or reduced houseing or help with untilities, no food stamps, no cash, no cell phone, We didn’t even have a phone, we didn’t have gas which ment no hot water.
    Now all of a sudden cell phones are a civil right? Owning a home is a civil right? This is all crazy. If the govt. deems something a civil right that means the tax payers pay for it. These things are not a civil right. If they want a cell phone get a damn job.49% of Americans pay no federal taxes. We need to redefine poverty in this country. There is no excuse for people to be on welfaire benefits for more than 3 to 5 years. That is plenty of time to earn your GED and get certified in a job skill or a two year or four year college degree on a studen loan or pell grant. If you are liveing off of someone els and you are not doing anything for yourself. Set up house keeping under the nearest bridge. You don’t deserve my money or my help.

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    • Spock
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:27am

      Hey, if you are the right color have 5 or 6 kids with no father the sky is the limit. I work my a s s off daily and still cannot afford the luxuries that the government hands out to these parasites.

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  • Hiswill
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:14am

    You know that the majority of the poor DO have cell phones and they are paying for them themselves. Now they will drop their plans and get it for free. Come on! Enough of the “give me train”. You can get a Net10 phone for $15.00 a month. Is there no end to entitlements? Free food, free rent, free healthcare, free childcare, free education, utilities assistence. Why go to work!!

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    • palrider1
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:12am

      That’s obummers goal – why go to work (high unemployment), overload the system and collapes it (run it over the cliff). This economic terrerorist becomes our first mullatto dictator under his new marxist system. With Spooky dude (soros) eventually getting his new world order marxist system under un.
      Who are the real terrorist?

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:09am

    Personally, I think celphones are a WRONG! Everyone is on them all the time. We are becoming more and more isolated from one another as human beings and are being moved into a horrible, non-caring society. “Watchale!”

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    • notsofast
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:18am

      Agree, with this addition to your comments. They are rude. It used to be, at least the people called you on them. then if they didn’t call you they at least text you on them, now they ignore the texts.

      Cell phones are a LISTENING device and a TRACKING device. The only way that you can disengage the “FOLLOW ME CELL” is to take the battery out. And if I am wrong, in the future, you will not be able to take the battery out without going to a store to have it replaced. Long live big brother!

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:06am

    The title has it all wrong. If something is a civil right, that means the government must stay out of it. True with healthcare, true with cell phones. These things are indeed civil rights, and the government is unconstitutionally interfering in everyone’s rights to these desires in life. Obamacare is illegal. Free cell phones are illegal. Feeding the poor is the same as taking food away from the formerly not poor, and making them poor too, making two mouths to feed. It is cruel what big government allies do to us. They have no problem taking every liberty away from us and telling us they are doing us a favor.

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:04am

    What a load of b0llocks! What’s next? 60″ plasma TVs and free cable as a civil right????

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  • Vechorik
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:04am

    The Feds already give free cell phones. I know several people that have them. They said they got them from “Safelink” https://www.safelinkwireless.com/Safelink/ It includes 250 minutes per month.
    Why does PA have to duplicate the “free program” that already exists?

    I have the same question regarding all “free programs.” There are hundreds of programs, benefits, checks for “the needy.” It’s a quagmire of paperwork and waste. If a person is poor — they need help — period. All those give-away programs should be combined into one big ball with everyone using ID cards — toss in VA, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and ever other government give-away.

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    • MacAodh
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 6:20pm

      you need to rethink your position alot, and find out how this crap really works. I worked for 45 years and paid for everything I get, along with probably your parents so think a little before you start throughing out all of that crap about us getting something we did not pay for. Quit a lot of us have paid and paid and paid some more. So leave me out of your sophmoric rant, and get it right. A lot of people get paid out of Social Security that never paid into it like SSI and others that can buy into the system, and then that moron in the White house goes and cuts the amount paid into SS by 2 1/2 % for a year that will really help if SS is in such trouble what an idiot. The amout paid in should have been raised by 2 1/2%. In Calif were 20 billion in the hole and the state admits that 11 billion is due to illegals since they admit to 11 its probably twice that, so what is the anwser? for all state and county workers to take a pay cut, and unpaid manditory days off and increases in the amounts workers pay for benefits. Maybe we could just kick the illegals out, oh yeah thats right you might have to mow your own lawn.

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:02am

    free my butt, we all are paying for these freeloading,lazy morons, what next a car is a civil right,and x-box, this crap, universal fees are nothing more than stealing and the government is the biggest thief.

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    • let us prey
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:06am

      Nothing like shared sacrifice. The sacks are getting heavier each day common.

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  • Garbageman
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:58am

    Pennsylvania is not the only state this program is running in. New York and North Carolina are two others that have implement it. There is at least one other state in which free cell phones are available. New York also provides 3,000 dollars towards the purchase of a vehicle or towards repairs for a vehicle to those on social service.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:06am

      i can’t afford my own cell phone bill, house note,car note,gas bill electric bill and they want me to pay for some free loading lazy no good for nothing, to have every thing for free, this is communism, they will not help me, because i have a job and i am the bad guy because i am sick and tired of paying for some else to get crap for free.

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    • Kurty C Wipe
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:12am

      Using cell phone kills young lad.
      http://www.ktvz.com/news/28746776/detail.html

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    • sobernic1982
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:39pm

      $3000?!?!?!?!? Please tell me you’re joking……..

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  • Grapesofwrath
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:56am

    OH Come On!! What else do we have to pay for!

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:55am

    Same thing in liberal Mass for years now. I remember laughing at the AD on TV!! “Are you on welfare? Then you qualify for a free cell phone…. call this toll free number OR go ONLINE to…” HAHAHA YOU are so poor you can’t afford a phone, so go to your expensive COMPUTER with EXPENSVIE INTERNET access and get one FRE! hahahahaha

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  • tower7femacamp
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:51am

    Government terrorists destroy entire Rawesome Foods inventory
    The warrant also states that “various samples of any food products present may be taken for laboratory analysis.” But this, of course, is not what happened at all. Instead of taking a few samples, the government terrorists from the LA County Dept. of Agriculture poured all the milk down the drain, then stole all the vegetables, fruits, cheese and eggs and loaded them up into a truck and drove away, leaving Rawesome Foods completely empty.
    Government terrorists destroy entire Rawesome Foods inventory
    The warrant also states that “various samples of any food products present may be taken for laboratory analysis.” But this, of course, is not what happened at all. Instead of taking a few samples, the government terrorists from the LA County Dept. of Agriculture poured all the milk down the drain, then stole all the vegetables, fruits, cheese and eggs and loaded them up into a truck and drove away, leaving Rawesome Foods completely empty.
    http://www.naturalnews.com/033224_Rawesome_Foods_search_warrant.html

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:51am

    Being able to talk to someone on a cell phone is a civil right? Please don’t try to use the “emergency” argument. You can take any functional phone that has not been activated for years, dial 911, and it will connect to a 911 operator. This is giving people free cell phones with minutes to use to talk to their friends or anyone else they want to talk to. They can use it to order pizza if they want. Cell phones are handy and I usually have one with me where ever I go, but I PAY FOR IT MYSELF. I don‘t not see how having a cell phone is anyone’s “right”, that someone else should pay for a convenience, and what I find most disturbing is that anyone in their right mind could conceive that it is some sort of civil right to have one.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:07am

      It’s the nanny state run amok,I see tv commercials all the time for FREE phones of course paid for by the few remaining taxpayers.It’s just like president Reagen said “when government expands liberty contracts”.It’s a simple concept any normal person with an average iq can comprehend,sadly we have a lot of people who are just stupid and lazy and want the government to take care of them.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:50am

    “Free” can only be applied to what the Taker Class is doing. For the Giver Class, you are not free to refuse to give to the Takers. Legalized Theft is the motto of the DEMOCRAT (Taker) Party.

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  • Ron_WA
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:50am

    Civil right my @ss. A part of modern life & a convenience absolutely but I think you can still not only achieve your civil rights but more importantly your inalienable rights of life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness w/out a cell phone

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  • mikee1
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:50am

    According to the dummycraps and their rino enablers, yes, they are. If they are not stopped, they will take everything the real WORKING-CLASS HAS AND GIVE IT TO THE RULING CLASS AND THEIR DEPENDENT MINION CLASS, COMPOSED OF ALL THOSE WHO DO NOTHING, CRIMINALS AND THE GENERALLY BRAIN DEAD.

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  • tower7femacamp
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:48am

    Cell phones yes Raw food a BIG NO !

    (NaturalNews) The recent act of government-sponsored terrorism against Rawesome Foods in Venice, California was authorized by a woman named Michelle LeCavalier. She signed the warrant which stated that she believed there was property at Rawesome Foods that was “used as the means of committing a felony.” (What, the raw cheese? Did someone cut the cheese and cause a silent-but-deadly felony nuisance?)

    The warrant goes on to state that the law enforcement agents should search “all rooms, attics, refrigerators, freezers… purses, wallets, briefcases and vehicles of both James Stewart (Rawesome Foods) and Sharon Palmer (Healthy Family Farms).”

    The warrant also grants them the permission to inspect, copy and even seize all computer files, video camera files, audio recording files and all the data of all computers.

    Additional items to be seized, as described in the warrant, include:

    • Any evidence of “interstate transportation” (so they can charge these people with felony FEDERAL crimes).

    • All membership agreements of their current members (customers); this way they can intimidate customers, too.
    http://www.infowars.com/photos-from-rawesome-foods-raid-prove-government-agents-illegally-stole-entire-inventory-of-buyers-club/

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  • one years food ration like glenn says
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:47am

    “the program is about peace of mind.“ Free cell service means ”one less bill that someone has to pay, so they can pay their rent or for day care…it is a right to have peace of mind,” Cater explained. Umm How about just not having a cell phone ? It’s not a friggin necessity .. Geez , I bet classwelfare loves this idea. Probably has his bags aready packed to move to PA.. lol

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