Poor in Colorado may get free phones TracFone Wireless wants to give cellphones to Coloradans who receive public assistance. By David Migoya The Denver Post POSTED: 07/15/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT
Thousands of low-income Coloradans reliant on public assistance could get a free cellphone under a plan before the state Public Utilities Commission.
If approved, the plan by TracFone Wireless in Miami would make Colorado the 17th state it has settled into with free cell service for the indigent, a form of wireless welfare that proponents say taps into one of the last untapped markets for the telecom technology.
"Our hope is to have it up and running by September," said Jose Fuentes, TracFone's director of government relations. "Historically, it's a very underutilized service, and we'd like that to change."
The program is a twist on Lifeline, a long-standing federal subsidy that provides low-income families with a break on their land-line telephone bill in order to ensure emergency 911 service.
In Colorado, it's called LITAP — the Low Income Telephone Assistance Program — and is available to anyone receiving aid from any of six welfare funds: Colorado Works Assistance (TANF), Supplemental Security Income, LEAP, Aid to Needy Disabled, the Old Age Pension Fund and Aid to the Blind.
Statewide, about 65 percent of those eligible participated in Lifeline last year. ...............>>>>................>>>>.............http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12838433
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
maybe its a plot the track the recipients whereabouts via GPS and the 68 min is an excuse to do it still seams expensive to me
Being the conspiracy thinker that I am......that's exactly what I thought!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
dangerous.....maybe,,,just maybe,,,,all the folks that think getting things for free is good even if they can afford to pay for them (because they just looooove $$ so much), they will all gather at 'the place' and then the government will nuke 'em..... take it to the bank and get the votes......they still win....politics as usual.....
government objective: prevent anarchy and chaos.......the only problem is they always leave out logic and reason,,,opting for 'the quickie'......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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