Obama Phone Lady as evidence of fraud.... laughable.
I used to sell Lifeline phones into certain carriers back in 2009 - 2012 when I worked with various phone OEMs. I can see where some phone resellers could create some fraud.
But the government is not involved. They merely subsidize the program.
Just to be clear, I was not claiming that Obama phone lady was evidence of fraud. I was only pointing out it was a memorable moment during the 2012 election because that clip was replayed ad nauseam at the time. So I think people call them "Obama phones" because of a fairly successful campaign at pinning their existence or popularity on Barack Obama (where this woman credited her free phone to Obama), and this particular video clip was shown quite a bit at the time.
The fraud remark in my comment was about the other news video I linked and also a link to wikipedia. Free phones and phone plans are really, really low on my list of things I care about in terms of examples of bad governance in the US.
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It was a relatively memorable moment of the 2012 election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio
I had a note in this comment on fraud, but it looks like there was probably a consistent pattern of waste/fraud for a long time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund#Waste_a...). There were some proven accusations of fraud in 2012 as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY4cy95VFes
Obama Phone Lady as evidence of fraud.... laughable.
I used to sell Lifeline phones into certain carriers back in 2009 - 2012 when I worked with various phone OEMs. I can see where some phone resellers could create some fraud.
But the government is not involved. They merely subsidize the program.
Just to be clear, I was not claiming that Obama phone lady was evidence of fraud. I was only pointing out it was a memorable moment during the 2012 election because that clip was replayed ad nauseam at the time. So I think people call them "Obama phones" because of a fairly successful campaign at pinning their existence or popularity on Barack Obama (where this woman credited her free phone to Obama), and this particular video clip was shown quite a bit at the time.
The fraud remark in my comment was about the other news video I linked and also a link to wikipedia. Free phones and phone plans are really, really low on my list of things I care about in terms of examples of bad governance in the US.