Lol...do the racists even know how the Lifeline program works?
O'Keefe didn't buy Obamaphones, he bought Motorola TracPhones, available at your local KMart for $8.97, and handed them out, thus padding Carlos Slim's pockets.
Gracias, Gringo!
But I'm glad O'Keefe is hangin' wit his bros, chillin
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/okeefe-shocked-to-learn-goods-are-fungible.html
I’m not really sure what this adds to the store of public knowledge about the Lifeline program. In a free market economy, it is possible to sell or exchange goods and services for other goods and services. You can take your free phone and sell it. You can do this with any government benefit. You can do it with money of any kind. Moreover, the task of preventing people from buying drugs falls on law enforcement, not on other social service agencies, who are not in a position to ensure that any benefits are not ultimately transferred toward illicit ends.
If you give money to, say, James O’Keefe, he might use it to commit burglary or other legally questionable behavior. And yet, now that he is off probation and can travel without permission from a judge, a U.S. attorney, and a probation officer, we generally let O’Keefe have stuff, out of the perhaps naïve assumption that it will not be used to finance illegal activity.
O'Keefe didn't buy Obamaphones, he bought Motorola TracPhones, available at your local KMart for $8.97, and handed them out, thus padding Carlos Slim's pockets.
Gracias, Gringo!
But I'm glad O'Keefe is hangin' wit his bros, chillin
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/okeefe-shocked-to-learn-goods-are-fungible.html
I’m not really sure what this adds to the store of public knowledge about the Lifeline program. In a free market economy, it is possible to sell or exchange goods and services for other goods and services. You can take your free phone and sell it. You can do this with any government benefit. You can do it with money of any kind. Moreover, the task of preventing people from buying drugs falls on law enforcement, not on other social service agencies, who are not in a position to ensure that any benefits are not ultimately transferred toward illicit ends.
If you give money to, say, James O’Keefe, he might use it to commit burglary or other legally questionable behavior. And yet, now that he is off probation and can travel without permission from a judge, a U.S. attorney, and a probation officer, we generally let O’Keefe have stuff, out of the perhaps naïve assumption that it will not be used to finance illegal activity.