Jack,

I was unaware of the FCC involvement is why I posted the message or didn't 
you catch that part?

Phil.
K0NX




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zach Shifflett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Obama phones and the FCC


>I shouldn't even  respond to this message, as I don't want to feed
> trolls and spark debate on the list.  However, this being a ham hobby
> list, I'm not really sure how or why this post would be applicable
> here.
> I'm not making a political statement here, or saying I'm on one side
> or the other of this particular issue, but we're all just here to talk
> radio, blindness issues, and generally rag chew.  This seems, at least
> to me, to be a bit devisive.
> Just my two cents.
> Zach, KK4RUZ
>
> On 6/19/13, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>    =20
>> text of forwarded message follows:
>>
>>   From: Hand In Hand <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>   SOURCE: =
>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2343377/I-dont-care-Hidden-camera=
>> -catches-wireless-company-employees-passing-Obama-phones-people-say-theyl=
>> l-sell-drugs-shoes-handbags-spending-cash.html
>>
>>   =20
>>    =20
>>   Tuesday, Jun 18 201312PM 80=B0F3PM82=B0F 5-Day Forecast
>>   EXCLUSIVE: Hidden camera catches wireless company employees passing =
>> out 'Obama phones' to people who say they'll SELL them for drugs, shoes, 
>> =
>> handbags and spending cash=20
>>     a.. The 'Lifeline' free-cell-phone scheme cost $2.2 BILLION last =
>> year alone, all of it from fees added to the phone bills of paying =
>> customers=20
>>     b.. The biggest beneficiary other than low-income consumers is =
>> billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, whose TracFone has collected $1.5 BILLION =
>> to date=20
>>     c.. One company told MailOnline it will fire a salesperson who =
>> laughed uproariously when a woman said she would sell her phone to buy =
>> shoes=20
>>     d.. Conservative firebrand James O'Keefe sent undercover actors to =
>> pose as 'Obama phone' seekers aiming to sell the goods; no one turned =
>> them down=20
>>     e.. Legislation in Congress would remove the cell phone component of 
>> =
>> the program, which launched in 1984 and covered only land lines until =
>> 2008=20
>>   By David Martosko In Washington
>>   PUBLISHED:02:01 EST, 18 June 2013| UPDATED:07:22 EST, 18 June 2013
>>    =20
>>   'If you're interested in learning -- wanting to know how much the =
>> phone's worth, [I] recommend you go to any pawn shop,' this Stand Up =
>> Wireless worker told conservative activist James O'Keefe's undercover =
>> plant. 'They'll be more than happy to tell you, OK?'
>>
>>   Undercover video shot in May by a conservative activist shows two =
>> corporate distributors of free cell phones handing out the mobile =
>> devices to people who have promised to sell them for drug money, to buy =
>> shoes and handbags, to pay off their bills, or just for extra spending =
>> cash.
>>
>>   The 'Obama phone,' which made its ignominious YouTube debut outside a =
>> Cleveland, Ohio presidential campaign event last September, is a project 
>> =
>> of the Federal Communications Commission's 'Lifeline' program, which =
>> makes land line and mobile phones available to Americans who meet =
>> low-income requirements.
>>   Lifeline was a $2.19 billion program in 2012.
>>
>>   Recipients most commonly demonstrate their need by flashing an =
>> Electronic Benefits Transfer card to verify their eligibility for =
>> welfare payments, or by bringing tax statements to a phone provider.=20
>>
>>   The phones' legitimate purposes include poverty-level job applicants' =
>> use as contact numbers for job interviews and emergency contacts for =
>> children of single parents.
>>
>>   But when James O'Keefe, whose Project Veritas is a perennial thorn in =
>> the side of progressive policymakers, sent an undercover actor into a =
>> Stand Up Wireless location in Philadelphia, the man's stated purpose was 
>> =
>> to buy drugs.
>>
>>   'Once you guys give me this phone, it's my phone?' he asked an =
>> employee inside a Philadelphia brick-and-mortal Stand Up Wireless =
>> location. 'I can, like, sell it and stuff?'
>>
>>   'Whatever you want to do with it,' the worker replied.
>>
>>   'So I'm [going to] get some money for heroin,' he offered.
>>
>>   The employee coolly responded, 'Hey, I don't judge.'
>>
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>> text of forwarded message ends:
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