I guess by now, everyone has heard about the "welfare" cell phones that our gov't is handing out to low income persons. Well, the company that is providing the service is obviously gigging the gov't in every possible way.

I got a package in the mail the other day. When I opened it I found a brand new Keocera cell phone with 250 free minutes each month. I called the company to ask what the deal was. They confirmed it was a gov't funded "welfare" phone. I asked them why I received one and they said that I had applied, I did not! I asked them to send me a copy of my application and they said they couldn't find it. Now I ain't rich, but my wife and I live pretty darn comfortably. There is no way in heck that I should be getting any type of assistance.

It chaps my hide that our tax dollars are giving a bunch of shiftless low lifes free cell phones to begin with. But, the fact that there obviously isn't any oversight in place as to whom they send the phones, really steams me! I'm sure the company that is supplying the phone service is getting a fat gov't check for every phone that is activated. Why else would they randomly mail out phones? Even worse, the company isn't even an American one, it's a division of Virgin mobile!

I'm done ranting now, I feel a little better. Anyone else been sent one of these phones?