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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: RMF who wrote (61308)1/18/2013 8:18:31 PM
From: greatplains_guy2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
The free cell phones are paid out of the Universal Service Fund. It was started several years ago to ensure that rural people had access to land lines. Obama identified that Republican voters were benefiting so he switched the program to give free cell phones to uneducated inner city people to make sure that his constituents were the beneficiaries.

The long and short of it is simply that charity whether private of government distorts markets and generally makes the situation worse. When we send food aid to help in draught stricken lands it underprices local producers which makes them uncompetitive and keeps distorting the local market which makes the problem last longer rather than self correcting like free markets tend to do. Now there is something profound for you to chew on.
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