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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tRidiot" data-source="post: 1992061" data-attributes="member: 9374">^^^^ THIS!Actually, you know who we should really be mad at over the whole phone issue? The VENDORS! I do not know what the .gov is paying per line that is set up, but my parents are in the cell phone industry and there have been several of their vendors who have completely dropped out of the retail market JUST to focus on "Obama" gov't phones. They are making a KILLING at picking up cheap, crappy, beat up ugly old flip phones and foisting them as "freebies" onto the welfare crowd, while charging the .gov top dollar for them all.I am sure it is a set fee for them to set up the lines, and they get reimbursed at a fair rate for the phones... as if they were decent phones. But the ones they're giving out are absolute SHITE! And then these folks walk into my folks' store trying to sell them their gov't phones, since they don't need them and they've got an iPhone or Android-based smart phone already on another account. Seriously folks, this happens EVERY day, MULTIPLE TIMES per day. Of course, my parents won't buy the phones, because they are crap, but it points to the whole root of the problem.Sooooo... tell me why someone who has it rough enough to be on gov't assistance and qualify for a "free phone" can afford somehow or other to have a high-end phone with a data plan on a private account? I realize maybe someone gave it to them as a gift, or someone else is paying the bill (baby-daddy, grandma on a pension, etc.), but seriously? Why do we need to provide these people with phones??? When they already have one and have no intention of giving up their high-end phone and plan, and only want to try to sell the gov't phone for $10 to anyone who's sucker enough to buy it???Once again... America has the wealthiest "poor" in the history of the world.</blockquote>

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