A very interesting story on a site I can’t say that I’ve ever been to before: The Center for Public Integrity. The headline: “Phone fund for schools, libraries riddled with fraud.” Apparently the Universal Service Fund is supposed to be used to help schools and libraries get online. Every year, $2.25 billion go into that program. But more and more, a good chunk of that money is lining the pockets of executives and not being put back into schools or libraries. Let’s see…$2.25 billion divided by 50-states equals $50 million. Put that into the general school funding for the states. It won’t entirely fund schools, but it will certainly help.
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Also this USF is for those people who are low income in a high cost area, so they wont have to pay their phone bill, so they come to me to make up the difference, I imagine that’s how it works on medical assistance as well, med assistance pays abt 25% of the bill and the rest is supposed to be written off ,however ,thats were we come in ,the hard working,”stupid” middle class, they will make up the difference on us. Like we dont have put up with the high cost in our area, are we printing our money in the basement or something???, we have to go out and earn it, which has increasinly become unpopular among the newer generation. The nerve of the phone company to ask me to make up the difference for those who are low income, (mostly by choice), while their executives are living it up. yuk