Some people are just ignorant. That lady in the video you posted is proof.
"Obamaphones?" That's just crazy talk.
It should be noted that people who are on welfare or whatnot can actually apply for and get what is basically a "food stamp phone". One of the many fees that these cell phone companies tack on to us paying customer's bills pays for them.
I'm all for giving a hand to people who are struggling to get by and need a little help if they are working to make their life better. But I do understand that for every situation where programs like this can help a person, there's another person like that ignorant lady who just wants to take advantage of the system. We need to fix the system so it can still help people but it can't be taken advantage of, but this is a whole big issue which would need its own thread.
But yeah, it's not like Obama is going down to the DC AT&T store with the white house credit card and then standing on the street corner giving away phones for free on taxpayer money. This kind of crap happens on both sides of the aisle, where the President is blamed for things that go wrong even though he had nothing to do with it the same way he is sometimes given credit for things he had nothing to do with also.
Why are you asking him and not arn who posted the article and picture??
There's a huge difference in struggling to get by and refusing to accept responsibility for your own life. You dont need a phone to remain alive if you cant afford one too bad for you make better decisions. The sooner we cut off these leeches the better. At a minimum we need to assemble the welfare recipients every week to go do things like pick up trash around town to show thanks to those of us who get up early every day and go to work.