Massive Fraud In Obamaphone Program

[RV ME]

The Polyticks have learned and learned well that once "The Government” "gives" someone something it can’t be taken back.  Never mind if it is unsustainable (Social Security, Obummercare, welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, ET. Al.), a polytick can’t risk being thrown off the gravy train by doing the right thing.  Even though every one of these “giveaway” programs are wrought with fraud and abuse, they must continue.  Worse than the bad parents that give their children everything (except perhaps discipline), the polyticks 0use oth0er people’s money for the same purpose.  With the same results.  And I find it quite telling that the polytick McCaskill can’t blame the citizens that are defrauding all of us who actually pays a phone bill, but rather blames the blames the phone companies.  RV ME

 

Massive Fraud In Obamaphone Program

By Rick Moran

 

The scandal-plagued  program initiated by President Obama that provides phones and internet service to poor people is beset with massive waste, fraud, and abuse, according to a three year study by the General Accountability Office.

 

The government watchdog conducted the review at the behest of Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill. They found that 36% of participants were probably not eligible to recieve the benefit.

 

Breitbart:

GAO investigators sampled the program’s population and found that it had been paying for nearly 6,400 phones for people whom the government has listed as deceased; another 5,500 people were enrolled for two phones, and another group of people couldn’t prove they were eligible to receive their free phone.

 

“A complete lack of oversight is causing this program to fail the American taxpayer — everything that could go wrong is going wrong,” McCaskill said in a statement. “We’re currently letting phone companies cash a government check every month with little more than the honor system to hold them accountable, and that simply can’t continue.”

 

Originally conceived during the Reagan administration, Lifeline was initially meant to provide poor people with a phone in case of an emergency or, as time went on, to apply for a job.

 

Administered by the Federal Communications Commission, Lifeline requires telecommunication companies (At&t, Verizon, Sprint) to pay a percentage of their voice service revenues into a pool called the Universal Service Fund that is administered by an independent nonprofit company called the Universal Service Administrative Company. Telecom companies pass on the cost of their contributions to consumers, whose monthly bill includes a “universal service fee” charge.

 

The three-year GAO investigation found that the program has put away more than “$9 billion, as of September 2016 outside the Department of the Treasury in a private bank account.”

 

A spokesman for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who had already put the dubious program under review, said the “GAO report confirms that waste, fraud, and abuse are all too prevalent in the program.”

 

“Chairman Pai looks forward to working with his colleagues to crack down on the unscrupulous providers that abuse the program because every dollar that is spent on subsidizing somebody who doesn’t need the help by definition does not go to someone who does,” Pai’s spokesman added.

 

President Reagan started the program at a time when there were no smart phones and few cell phones. The idea was to get the big telephone companies to supply land line phones to the poor for emergency use. Since no taxpayer money was being used for the phones themselves, it seemed to be an acceptable partnership between the government and private businesses.

 

But like almost all government programs, this one got out of control. The explosion in wireless communications made it ridicuously easy to defraud the companies until today, nearly 2 in 5 participants in the program are not eligible.

 

Ultimately, the government is responsible for the administration of the program. The FCC has been lax in the past in oversight, but with a new chairman dedicated to rooting out fraudsters, that's going to change.

 

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/07/report_massive_fraud_in_obamaphone_program.html

[markb57]

ok, Remove Social Security from your list. That is NOT a govt sustained program. You and your employer contribute. It is only in trouble because congress stole it from a secure trust fund and dumped it into the general fund and spent.

[md11fr8dawg]

Exactly Mark, SS and Medicare are programs paid for by the deductions from your paycheck and thus are EARNED. The rest of this socialist crap is welfare pure and simple at the taxpayer expense. It is NOT the PolyTicks money, so they don't care how much is spent or how it is spent as long as they get re-elected and stay in power. And the welfare recipients are nursing that government *** for as much as they can, with very little or no intention of getting off the gravy train. 

[nstoolman1]

50 minutes ago, md11fr8dawg said:

SS and Medicare are programs paid for by the deductions from your paycheck and thus are EARNED. 

 

This is true except for the low life who figured a way to get a Dr. to get them on a disability ticket and draw money they haven't earned or contributed to. We knew a guy that at the ripe old age of 19 went to a Dr. and declared himself a pedophile and was able to convince the right people he would not be able to keep a job. He was put on permanent disability and drew $2000 a month. That was in 1983.  21 years later he died of drugs an alcohol. 

[RV ME]

3 hours ago, markb57 said:

ok, Remove Social Security from your list. That is NOT a govt sustained program. You and your employer contribute. It is only in trouble because congress stole it from a secure trust fund and dumped it into the general fund and spent.

 

2 hours ago, md11fr8dawg said:

Exactly Mark, SS and Medicare are programs paid for by the deductions from your paycheck and thus are EARNED. The rest of this socialist crap is welfare pure and simple at the taxpayer expense. It is NOT the PolyTicks money, so they don't care how much is spent or how it is spent as long as they get re-elected and stay in power. And the welfare recipients are nursing that government *** for as much as they can, with very little or no intention of getting off the gravy train. 

 

43 minutes ago, nstoolman1 said:

 

This is true except for the low life who figured a way to get a Dr. to get them on a disability ticket and draw money they haven't earned or contributed to. We knew a guy that at the ripe old age of 19 went to a Dr. and declared himself a pedophile and was able to convince the right people he would not be able to keep a job. He was put on permanent disability and drew $2000 a month. That was in 1983.  21 years later he died of drugs an alcohol. 

 

If I and my wife die in a tragic car crash and my children are all adults, what happens to all the earnings I was forced to send to Washington?

 

I will agree that Social Security was sold as your individual earned investment retirement account, but every polytick who has come down the pike knew it wasn’t so.  Even SCOTUS has ruled you have no right to those funds other than what Congress grants you, and that is subject to change with the polytickal winds.  The “pact” made with the polyticks (devil?) has been revised and amended multiple times in order to keep up the charade, and always to the detriment of those who actually earned it.  The “bonds” used as markers are unlike other bonds in that they have no market value, again other than what Congress ways they are worth.  And since the cost of paying off those bonds are not included in the budget / debt, does anyone really believe they will be repaid?

 

I will somewhat agree that you pay into the “retirement fund” through payroll taxes, but your employer does not pay half.  Again, the polyticks success in framing the terms.  As someone who is self-employed I do pay both halves of the tax for myself.  But as an employer must calculate the total cost of an employee including SS and Medicaid (and insurance, 401K match, unemployment insurance).  The employee may not look at these taxes as part of their salary, but in effect the polyticks just have the employers paying half of your taxes without you ever touching the money.  As an employer I would rather pay this money to the people working for me, not send it to Washington.

 

As NS pointed out, the “retirement” program has morphed into a “disability” program ripe for the scamming.  Obummerphones has a 40% fraud rate, at minimum.  I submit that would not be unusual for any government “giveaway” program, and that is now what SS has become.  Just another wedge the polyticks can use to keep us divided / in line.  Once given it can’t be taken back.  Proof being every election cycle one polytick accuses another of taking away your social security.

 

When my father and I were cleaning out my grandfathers basement after he passed, I found a photo of FDR signing the SS bill he had framed and saved.  I asked my father if I could keep it and he asked why.  I told him it is a great hope of mine to have this picture displayed alongside a picture of the President who signs the bill ending SS and bringing an end to this error.  I really have no expectation of this happening, but it is genuinely what I want.

Edited July 2, 2017 by RV ME

[divemaster5734]

4 hours ago, markb57 said:

ok, Remove Social Security from your list. That is NOT a govt sustained program. You and your employer contribute. It is only in trouble because congress stole it from a secure trust fund and dumped it into the general fund and spent.

 

3 hours ago, md11fr8dawg said:

Exactly Mark, SS and Medicare are programs paid for by the deductions from your paycheck and thus are EARNED. The rest of this socialist crap is welfare pure and simple at the taxpayer expense. It is NOT the PolyTicks money, so they don't care how much is spent or how it is spent as long as they get re-elected and stay in power. And the welfare recipients are nursing that government *** for as much as they can, with very little or no intention of getting off the gravy train. 

 

1 hour ago, nstoolman1 said:

 

This is true except for the low life who figured a way to get a Dr. to get them on a disability ticket and draw money they haven't earned or contributed to. We knew a guy that at the ripe old age of 19 went to a Dr. and declared himself a pedophile and was able to convince the right people he would not be able to keep a job. He was put on permanent disability and drew $2000 a month. That was in 1983.  21 years later he died of drugs an alcohol. 

 

40 minutes ago, RV ME said:

 

 

 

If I and my wife die in a tragic car crash and my children are all adults, what happens to all the earnings I was forced to send to Washington?

  And since the cost of paying off those bonds are not included in the budget / debt, does anyone really believe they will be repaid?

 

I will somewhat agree that you pay into the “retirement fund” through payroll taxes, but your employer does not pay half.  Again, the polyticks success in framing the terms.  As someone who is self-employed I do pay both halves of the tax for myself.   As an employer I would rather pay this money to the people working for me, not send it to Washington.

 

 Obummerphones has a 40% fraud rate, at minimum.  I submit that would not be unusual for any government “giveaway” program, and that is now what SS has become.  Just another wedge the polyticks can use to keep us divided / in line.  Once given it can’t be taken back.  Proof being every election cycle one polytick accuses another of taking away your social security.

President who signs the bill ending SS and bringing an end to this error.  I really have no expectation of this happening, but it is genuinely what I want.

 

Got that account letter the SS sends out stating how much I have paid in over my life. Was a little shocked to see my "contribution" was over $210,000. 

I'm still years from being "allowed" to draw a tiny portion of it, sincerely doubt I'll live long enough to even see half, and that doesn't include the interest accrued had I been able to deposit into even a lousy 1.5% ira.

Instead I get to watch videos of people who have 10 or more "o" phones, enough to be able to tuck a phone in their scarf and walk around a mall or grocery store talking to someone the entire time. All they do is swap phones when one runs out, and they never run out of minutes.

I wonder if they get a new phone with every separate welfare application that is approved.

 

As for the rest of the comments, I can't help but wonder. How long before a  politician's mind starts to lose perspective? 

They are playing with fake money, "sold" to the USA by a banking cartel, they get an unlimited supply, anytime, so how long before it really doesn't matter to a pol which "account" they use, as long as they can keep the American People believing in the value of the USD, they will keep exchanging it for their sweat equity, and the rest of the world will continue to crave the "American Illusion".

We all know the USD is NOT money, it is a currency. It is fiat.

Life for us has been rigged long before any of us were born.

If we learn to generate enough currency, we can live a decent lifestyle, but that is ONLY if we are able to send our masters a sufficient cut of the take.

Even then, we never actually "own" anything, we are allowed to occupy a home, mortgage or not, until a time we can't pay the government tax, or, the government decides they want our home, and then they can just take it.

We are allowed to live the illusion for as long as it pleases our masters.

 

My point is, until we can force the core transition, from a debt note to intrinsic value money, or even actually there gold certificates, we are all just playing a game designed to keep us busy while a very few who spend their days stealing the globes wealth can finally effect their end game, by eliminating 80% of the global population, and living eternity on earth as our rulers.

 

I honestly am starting to lose hope.

For every scumbag politician that is caught there are 1000 more, each eager to take their place, and will happily abuse their power to abuse and destroy the lives of trusting humans.

We already know how  the failed experiments called socialism and communism play out.

There's a lot of work before children are even given a fair shot at life by learning the truth in school, minus mind rotting special interest.

Even then, it will take a generation..