{"id":186563,"date":"2013-12-19T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/19\/news-from-south-of-the-manson-nixon-line\/"},"modified":"2013-12-19T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T01:05:00","slug":"news-from-south-of-the-manson-nixon-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/19\/news-from-south-of-the-manson-nixon-line\/","title":{"rendered":"News from South of the Manson-Nixon Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US offers free &#8220;lifeline&#8221; cell phone service for the poor.<\/p>\n<p>In Georgia, the powers that be decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/12\/18\/usa-georgia-cellphones-idUSL2N0JX14J20131218\">levy a fee on the free cell phones<\/a>, because \u2026\u2026\u2026 They just want to hate on the poor, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>A Federal Court just told them to go Cheney themselves:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A federal judge has blocked Georgia&#8217;s plan to charge low-income residents $5 per month for cell phone service that currently is provided free of charge.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The fee was set to take effect on Jan. 31 and would have made Georgia the only the U.S. state to charge for the federally subsidized phone service.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;The public interest tilts in favor of providing telephone services to low-income households that otherwise would be unable to afford mobile phones,&#8221; U.S. District Court Judge Richard Story wrote on Tuesday in a temporary injunction that stops the new fee while a court challenge is pending.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Nationally, about 14 million households participate in the Lifeline phone program, according to the Universal Service Administrative Co, the nonprofit organization that administers the program.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The level of hate and evil here is only exceeded by the pettiness shown.<\/p>\n<p>Un-dirtyword believable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US offers free &#8220;lifeline&#8221; cell phone service for the poor. In Georgia, the powers that be decided to levy a fee on the free cell phones, because \u2026\u2026\u2026 They just want to hate on the poor, I guess. A Federal Court just told them to go Cheney themselves: A federal judge has blocked Georgia&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,969,985,1086,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-evil","category-regulation","category-social-safety-net","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}