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Our current land line service comes with a package and the cheapest version is probably at least as expensive as the cheapest cell phone (plus service) that you can find. So, I call bs.

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Also internet (although, in a pinch, I guess most cells now access internet, email, etc.)

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Don't get your tit caught in the wringer!

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My bill will reform the Lifeline Program and restore it to its original purpose of providing landline services and prohibit Universal Service support for mobile services. Read more at https://wonkette.com/621128...

And do he know why the original purpose was providing landline services? The first cell phone went on sale in 1984 for $4,000. http://mashable.com/2014/03...

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Can't we just send them to workhouses and debtor's prisons again, like the good old days of 19th century London, when America was great?

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And yet, public libraries are where poors often go for internetting job searches.

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I'm willing to go with Morse Code for All.

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Similar to David Duke's.

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My parents' first land line in Southern Oregon was a party line. Their "number" was two longs and a short. The operators name wasn't "Sarah", it was "Mabel."

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"Money well spent!", most Republicans, probably.

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i still have my vic 20 i got fer crimmas in the 80's.

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How dare the president of another country disobey tRump, THE GREATEST PERSON IN THE WORLD EVER! THE NERVE!!!1!!11!!!!!1

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Why do you think that they don't realize that?

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Why do you think Republicans hate them?

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So for poor people in rural areas that aren't serviced by landlines? I guess they just FOAD if they need to call 911 or something.

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Any other country would have had a vote of no confidence or a military coup long before now.

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