Nothing — no matter how crazy — coming out of the insane state of California surprises us anymore.
Now the state has announced that it will be giving food stamps to undocumented migrants. Being a food stamp recipient, of course, is one of the primary ways to qualify for the Lifeline free government cell phone program. Since the Lifeline program has limited resources, more phones for non-citizens means fewer phones for American citizens and legal residents. In other words, you.
Absolute madness.
Here are the details from Breitbart.com:
This week, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced a budget deal with Democrat state legislators that includes providing food stamps, paid for by California’s taxpayers, to illegal aliens 55 and older — the first initiative of its kind in the United States.
An executive with the group Nourish California told the Fresno Bee that the policy is historic for the state, saying, “California is once again making history by removing xenophobic exclusions to our state’s safety net.”
This is just such a typical government nonsense. If it sounds good, do it without any regard for the Law of Unintended Consequences. And the primary unintended consequence is that poor, deserving Americans will be denied free government cell phones so that they can be given to illegal aliens.
Expansion of the state’s CalFresh food stamps program will cost California’s taxpayers more than $35 million and about 75,000 illegal aliens are expected to enroll every year.
What they don’t say is that it also means that 75,000 citizens and legal residents will NOT get free government cell phones.
The Law of Unintended Consequences reigns supreme in the formerly great state of California.
Citizens and legal residents get the short end of the stick once again. We would say that we hope the California legislature reconsiders this shortsighted plan, but what are the odds of a politician doing the right thing for once?
Slim and none.
Source: Breitbart
James says
Disgusting. Newsom has to go.
Lisa Anne Carlson says
The source of this is Breitbart?
This explains a lot. Not so fast!
This is meant to feed the sheep 🐑 on the Breitbart Farm. Breitbart is stinky entertainment, not really a credible source of investigative journalism, its definitely not news-not even close! Its a collection of haters, using their ill-gotten wealth and white privilege to fund their radical, self-serving ideas and so called beliefs. Grifting to live a fast lifestyle, one where they don’t really have to work hard doing anything else except thinking up new ways to get others to pay for it. Corporate Corruption; using the mentality of the mobs to fund The Mob Mentality against everyone, including themselves.
You might be a Breitbart believer if you’re into Rush Limbaugh or Ted Nugent. White Supremacist or Evangelical Fundamentalists. Conspiracy Theorists or Q-Anon-ists. Flat-Earthers or Climate Deniers. The Misogynists or Chauvinists. The Hypocrits or Bigots.
The Sophists of Sophistry, be it at Breitbart or at Fox “News Entertainment” or the growing number of Trump’s failures at trying to start radical social media companies. Companies that just never caught on after his people ran out if funds (which he swindled from the same followers). The millions of “subscribers” that paid for any thing founded by the orange narcissist dictator/former *POTUS. Funded by the gullible uneducated groupies he conned. The company he started after hims got mad at Sean Hannity, who stopped bootlicking the day he said “Trump officially has lost his reelection”.
Or after finally getting banned from Twitter. Or after he was permanently banned from Facebook for spreading lies and misinformation 24/7.
Or after getting exposed by or de-bunked by his own people. Or after publicly firing anyone he thought he legally could or regardless of legality, with public assisination of character, the defamation of group or liable of any brand or slander of any authority or government or company. Or after targeting anyone who disagrees with him or everyone who told him no. Or anyone who told the truth about him, he now just claims they lied on him even when they show receipts. He brags about the BEST people he knows and celebrates public wins with them on Mondays but in Friday’s tweets he swears every last one of those ate now just “Fake News”.
Or maybe its the pathological lying. Or the Subliminal public use of Social media messages meant to scare or to intimidate those he can’t face the truth from. Or maybe its the same old blaming everything on everyone, anyone he couldn’t scare everywhere else. Or blame on Obama or on Biden or even on Hilary’s emails.
And the evil little “stable genius” with the tiny man hands, is STILL trying to get away with ALL of it. He’s STILL doing ALL of this, even as I write, despite the fact that (thanks to the Jan 6th Committee and the many other prosecutors and Attorney generals who are currently investigating him and have already served him subpoenas) it appears *45 is FINALLY, VERY QUICKLY RUNNING OUT of options. From the looks
Sorry, I got sidetracked.
The 75,000 phones being “denied” to California residents is a false equivalence, because no one us actually being denied a phone. Source: The State of California Budget.
Lawmakers approved the funds for a program which adds up to 75k people, yes, including undocumented workers but this isn’t at a
truthful also includes other marginalized group s like refugees and people with customs issues, or those with lost passports or legal documents.
But, my point is, this funding was added as a part of the regular budget, not in replacement of anything, but in addition to it. This budget, which pays for and provides services that fund is from ALL legal tax payers and legal residents of California, (including Caucasian residents, but still, for ALL residents, they are still mad about immigration and immigrants because they are POC not white.)
Nothing was actually charged back to tax payers for this budget addition either, it was paid for and entirely funded. There’s always funds there when it’s sourced out of surplus tax revenue, all the money the state collected from people working in the state who had taxes taken out of their paychecks for state income tax, some of whom never file a tax return for a refund and then forfeited.
All the non-residents, undocumented or illegal pay in but forfeited that revenue. The people who have work visas are just one of the sources where this surplus tax revenue is from, but since it’s coming from immigrants and funding immigrant programs, and Breitbart is using people against themselves and making them pay for it, capitalizing by using the media to attract followers using conspiracies, misinformation, lying about groups of people, usually anything with racist inuendo or intentionally just lying about something. Because thats what they do, and they do it because its profitable.
In California, when you apply for SNAP benefits, you must meet low-income requirements and be a legal resident of California before you will qualify and Californians who are qualified for SNAP also qualify for free Lifeline services. Period.
This source, Breitbart, in reality, is a unapologetic collection of racist talking heads leading around a cult of brainwashed followers getting them to do anything the want and give them all the money.
Brieitbart is not credible for anything unless spreading misinformation and opinions with far right-wing views counts- most of it can not be backed up by facts and it’s all a narrative to find them money- in other words, picture Fox News, crossed with a little Jerry Falwell fake Christian eevangelicals, definitely picture team Trump and then picture The Oath Keepers, The Proud Boys. Picture Steve Bannon and picture presidential pardons.
The truth:
In California, anyone approved for SNAP benefits has already met the legal requirements. Breitbart isn’t even trying to act low-key here, but its instead saying they’re against immigrants and it’s not a secret that its because they’re not Caucasian, they’re just not White. Breitbart, is a bunch of self righteous bigots and hypocrites whose income and wealth is sourced by people they can grift into staying stupid. Period.
Free Government Cell Phones says
Make of this comment what you will. We look at it and thank God that we don’t have to live lives filled with so much hate for so many people and organizations.
LW says
Thanks for your comment; I have noticed this website has had a definite right-wing skew for a long time now; I wonder how much they hate that anyone gets a benefit like cell phone service without paying a corporation for it.
Free Government Cell Phones says
Do you really think millions of people are leaving California because they are evil right wingers? No, moron, they are leaving because the state of California has been destroyed by lunatics.
Californians are required to pay the highest state income taxes in the nation and the highest gas taxes in the nation. What was once the greatest education system in the nation is in tatters and its students routinely score at or near the bottom of all states. The state’s infrastructure is falling apart. Its freeways are filthy, covered with more garage than its landfills. Residents must put up with frequent power outages. California is overrun with illegal aliens who undercut the wages earned by legal residents.
I could go on and on and on, but why bother? This comment moderator was born and raised in California back when it was damn near paradise on earth. I got out eight years ago and have never regretted leaving for a moment.
Does that make me a right wing lunatic? You would say yes (without even knowing my politics), but millions of other Californians are voting with their feet. They would say no.
Edward S says
Very Well Said
Free Government Cell Phones says
Thanks. I got a little heated there, but sometimes the morons do that to me.
Bingjames says
Good for you anytime anyone can make a change or completely pick up and move their whole life to another state and be happier and less stress and be comfortable with their circumstances I’m happy for you.More should follow suit but can’t afford to move and can’t afford to stay so that’s why alot are so mad at ones that can do it .I’m not yah for you good 🤞😊
Edward S says
Crazy Times, and my rent is going up $130.00 a month.
Free Government Cell Phones says
Crazy times, indeed. Our waiter at breakfast this morning told us that his rent was going from $900 to $1200. Inflation is a vicious enemy.