Can you get Safe Link cell phone/pre paid if you are on WIC benefits card?

by Hryck.

Not sure. I live in New York. The card on the back says its for food stamp, Medicaid, and Fleeting help. I heard from the safe link if you make less 26 Grand a year you could be eligible for it. They give a free phone plus I reckon it said you have to be food stamps or some sort of Government help or you dont have to be on them not 2 sure. If you saw the Safe Link commercial you would know what I am talking about. And plus what do they mean by free monthly airtime?.

Answer by qtmama
I don’t live in New York, but I live in a state everywhere low-income individuals qualify for a free cell phone and pre-paid minutes. It’s a different cell company than the one you mentioned above, but I’m sure its different in each state. I work for WIC and a lot of my clients have the free phone and plot. Call the phone company for details.

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A WISCONSIN UNION PROTESTER TAKES A QUICK BREAK TO RESUME HIS NATURAL POSTURE


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February 23, 2011
The View from Wisconsin
By Frank Burke
For those outside the state to fully appreciate the significance of what is happening in Wisconsin, it is necessary to know the local biased situation over the past decade.

To conservatives and to many moderates, the capture of the governorship, the state senate and gathering, two House seats, and the Senate seat formerly held by Russ Feingold, produced a feeling that can only be described as liberation. The total Democratic control that accompanied the Doyle handing out resulted in a climate that in its fiscal, officially authorized, and ethical lapses was extraordinary even for a state as politically eccentric as Wisconsin.

Often cited as the state that produced both Bob La Fallotte and Joe McCarthy, Wisconsin politics has generally trended to the populist/liberal. Milwaukee was the first major city to elect a Socialist, Emil Seidel, as Mayor (1910). He was succeeded by another Socialist, Dan Hoan, who led the longest continuous Socialist handing out in U.S. description. (Appropriately, a misguided and now deteriorated public works project, renowned locally as the "Bridge to Nowhere," was named for Hoan.)

In recent being, the biased and social structures erected and augmented by Democratic administrations were left largely untouched by Republicans. In his second term, the last Republican governor, Tommy Thompson, embarked on a large digit of wasteful, huge-spending projects that generated higher taxes. Under his aegis, the citizens of surrounding counties were forced to pay taxes to finance the building of Miller Park on behalf of Milwaukee Brewers title-holder, Bud Selig. When Thompson left to join the cabinet of George W. Bush as Secretary of Health and Human Services, his successor, Scott McCallum, had to use Wisconsin’s share of the tobacco settlement funds to take in budget deficits.

While Thompson can be credited for such initiatives as the School Choice Program and welfare reform, his free-spending ways alienated conservatives and paved the way to McCallum’s defeat in 2002, as did the campaign of his libertarian brother, Ed Thompson.

The Doyle handing out quickly became renowned as a tax-and-spend, pay-for-play, juggernaut with small or no sense of fiscal or ethical responsibilities. To take in budget shortfalls, Doyle resorted to the illegal seizure of state funds contributed by doctors to alleviate the cost of medical malpractice. Courts have since declared that the money seized must be repaid. Other irregularities included an attempt by the governor to be converted into the sole bargaining agent with clannish making a bet casinos, and utilizing stimulus money intended for high-speed rail to buy equipment made in Spain. Disregarding massive standard support and a reaffirmation of the Second Amendment by the U.S. Supreme Court, he vetoed concealed carry legislation that would have made it possible for responsible confidential citizens to carry concealed weapons. (Wisconsin is one of only two states that ban concealed/carry.)

Despite numerous instances of extensive election fraud, Doyle resisted any reform attempts and vetoed a bill requiring photo ID. His anti-business stance was evident in refusing to curb the complaint abuse that made the state a Mecca for trial lawyers. Just as numerous film companies were learning the advantages of shooting at Wisconsin locations, he rescinded the tax advantages that were helping to attract them.

Doyle also refused to rein in the DNR (Department of Natural Resources) which has be converted into a quasi-shadow government and extended its power far beyond the scope of its original charter. Most recently, through a combination of junk science and terrible research, it has managed to decimate Wisconsin’s deer herd – a severe blow to one of the primary tourist lures.

Nor was Doyle the only conundrum. Russ Feingold’s defeat was primarily due to his refusal to heed his constituency on the matter of ObamaCare. In news footage of town hall meetings, he could be seen arrogantly laughing at the voters who questioned him. While styling himself a maverick, he continually jumped into line in support of liberal legislation. His most single accomplishment, the McCain-Feingold Act, could not pass constitutional muster.

Wisconsin’s other Senator, Herb Kohl — renowned as "Senator Do-Nothing" — is a multi-millionaire who spent an average of 12 dollars per vote to be converted into reelected.

Perhaps what is most vital and what is not being mentioned in the news reports from Madison is the routine of the teachers in the Milwaukee Public School System; the same teachers who forced the closure of the city schools on Friday. As one of 17 urban districts with a graduation rate below 50 percent, the system is in serious distress. Further, as recently as the 2005-6 school year (the last year for which this data is publicly available), there were over 11,000 calls to police from Milwaukee public schools. For example, the city’s vocational school, Bradley Tech, was thoroughly refurbished and reequipped by The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in memory of its founders. Despite this, it has be converted into a hotbed of violence, gang activity, and narcotics trafficking. When large-extent fights have broken out in the school, students have called their parents by cell phones to have the parents come and join the melee.

The school board, mainly populated by representatives sympathetic to the teachers’ union, continues to raise taxes to finance increased salaries and benefits. On a national level, Obama’s first stimulus wrap included money to finance the construction of more Milwaukee schools, despite the fact that five school buildings now stand empty.

The conundrum has reached such proportions that even Democrats have noticed. Within the last year, it has been suggested that the school system be broken into a digit of regions under separate administrators so as to make the situation more convenient. The public is now awaiting recommendations contained in Governor Walker’s comprehensive budget proposal. The fact remains that the citizens of Wisconsin, and Milwaukee in particular, are aware that there must be significant changes — and that these do not include rewards to perpetuate dysfunctional school systems.

As Milwaukee County Executive, Scott Walker inherited a financial mess made by his predecessor. A strong proponent of not raising taxes, he vetoed numerous bills in an effort to control the County’s finances. Since he has assumed the governorship, he has instituted tort reform, generated a wrap of business incentives to place people back to work, and undertaken steps toward election reform. In any case of the mobs of demonstrators, many of whom come from out of state on the behest of the Obama handing out and its union cronies, the people of Wisconsin enthusiastically support his hard work. They have lived with the alternative for too long.

The combination of past fiscal irresponsibility by both biased parties but most especially by the Doyle handing out, coupled with the entitlement philosophy of the teachers’ unions and other public sector unions, has resulted in the loss of both jobs and population. This has not gone unnoticed by other states that have avidly pursued Wisconsin companies with packages of incentives and tax advantages. Only serious concessions by the confidential sector unions have enabled two of the state’s signature companies — Mercury Marine and Harley-Davidson — to remain. Governor Walker’s valiant struggle certainly has national implications. For the majority of Wisconsin’s citizens, it represents a major step on the long road toward rebuilding, repositioning, and reviving a state that has much to offer

OH AND SEE WHAT THE HEAD LAWYER FOR THE TEACHERS UNION THINKS ABOUT "THE CHILDREN" IT’S ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN RIGHT???

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwxiRXqH_hQ

And it is at our expense since the government is funding it?
What is your opinion on this matter as a citizen of this country?
Why should our tax dollars go to aid illegal aliens when they place themselves into these perilous positions?
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Phone Points Border Crossers To Water
Technology Designed By State-Funded Research
By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press Writer Elliot Spagat, Associated Press Writer – Tue Dec 29, 7:46 pm ET
SAN DIEGO – A group of California artists desires Mexicans and Inner Americans to have more than just a few cans of tuna and a jug of water for their illegal trek through the harsh desert into the U.S.

Faculty at University of California, San Diego are developing a GPS-enabled cell phone that tells dehydrated migrants everywhere to find water. It also pipes in poetry from phone speakers, regaling them on their journey much like Emma Lazarus’ words did a century ago to the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” on Ellis Island.

The Transborder Immigrant Tool is part technology endeavor, part art project. It introduces a high-tech twist to an ancient argument about how far activists can go to preclude migrants from dying on the border without breaking the law.

Immigration hardliners argue the activists are aiding illegal entry to the United States, a felony. Even migrants and their sympathizers question whether the device will make the treacherous journeys simpler.

The designers — three visual artists on UCSD’s faculty and an English professor at the University of Michigan — are undeterred as they criticize a U.S. policy they say embraces illegal immigrants for cheap labor while letting them die crossing the border.

“It’s about charitable water to somebody who’s dying in the desert of dehydration,” said Micha Cardenas, 32, a UCSD lecturer.

The effort is being done on the gov

“There are many, many areas in which each American would say I don’t like the way my tax dollars are being spent. Our answer to that is an in-your-face, so what?” says UCSD lecturer Brett Stalbaum, 33, a self-described news junkie who likens his role to chief technology officer.
ernment’s dime — anThe designers, who have raised $ 15,000 from a UCSD grant and an art festival award, hope to hand out phones for free in Mexico. The phones sell used for about $ 30 apiece. It costs nothing to add the GPS software.

Distribution would be tightly controlled by migrant shelters and advocacy groups to keep them away from anti-illegal immigration activists. The migrants would need passwords to use them.

U.S. authorities are unfazed. The Border Patrol has begun a $ 6.7-billion plot to drape the border with whiz-bang cameras, sensors and other technology.

“It’s nothing new,” said Border Patrol spokesman Mark Endicott. “We’ve seen handheld GPS devices used by smugglers. … We’re just going to have to learn to adapt to any challenges.”

Critics of illegal immigration say the device is misguided, at best.

“If it’s not a crime, it’s very close to committing a crime,” said Peter Nunez, a former U.S. attorney in San Diego. “Whether this constitutes aiding and abetting would depend on the details, but it certainly puts you in the discussion.”
irony not lost on the designers whose salaries are paid by the state of California
EDIT – here is part of the article not posted. Sorry

The effort is being done on the government’s dime — an irony not lost on the designers whose salaries are paid by the state of California.
EDIT – Here is remark by one of the individuals involved – “There are many, many areas in which each American would say I don’t like the way my tax dollars are being spent. Our answer to that is an in-your-face, so what?” says UCSD lecturer Brett Stalbaum

Answer by rightwing radical 1
yes I do. how many terrorist come through the mexican border we will never know.

Answer by fangtaiyang
Developing the phones is not aiding and abetting but charitable them out may be

Answer by Donna
Well (and Kize I am sure you remember me) even I reckon this should not be allowed. This is going just a bit too far.
My question is how are they going to get them to the people who are going to be crossing the desert?

~~Donna~~

Answer by Sci Fi Fan
The lengths that the corrupt government and illegal supporters go through to in order to support illegals is mind blowing! If only they spent as much passion, time, effort, and compassion on all the AMERICAN citizens out of work and in terrible times as THEY spend on the illegals we would be FAR better off I’m sure!

Answer by snowbunny
First of all! it’s not funded by us. These people fund their own projects and if it’s helping keep “human beings” alive, I’m all for it.

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