Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The Sow's Ear on the Obamaphones - Millions Improperly Claimed U.S. Phone Subsidies

The purely childish, socialist thinking of the anti-American president who thinks funds to pay for all his wish list can just be printed out of thin air. Keep the printing presses running. Capital can just be sucked out of those greedy American industrialists. And when they can't pay anymore, nationalize their assets. They can pay, one way or another, for the big government "investment" in support for more corrupt, unproductive programs, "green" scams and give-aways for government encouraged, poverty and laziness. This makes up the thinking of the "community pimpanizer" who has no clue about a working economy, except how to devastate it. Getting control over the citizenry through total regulation, including gun control, is primary. It is so sad and dangerous to us all. $2.2 BILLION spent last year on "OBAMAPHONES" is the tip of the iceberg and indicative of how totally irresponsible and corrupt this administration is. m/r

Millions Improperly Claimed U.S. Phone Subsidies - WSJ.com
 By SPENCER E. ANTE  February 11, 2013

The U.S. government spent about $2.2 billion last year to provide phones to low-income Americans, but a Wall Street Journal review of the program shows that a large number of those who received the phones haven't proved they are eligible to receive them.
The Lifeline program—begun in 1984 to ensure that poor people aren't cut off from jobs, families and emergency services—is funded by charges that appear on the monthly bills of every landline and wireless-phone customer. Payouts under the program have shot up from $819 million in 2008, as more wireless carriers have persuaded regulators to let them offer the service.
Suspecting that many of the new subscribers were ineligible, the Federal Communications Commission tightened the rules last year and required carriers to verify that existing subscribers were eligible. The agency estimated 15% of users would be weeded out, but far more were dropped. ...

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