waste, fraud and abuse, we re talking about the life line program that gives free cell phones to people who don t make enough money. stuart varney joins me now from the fox business network. this started back in 1984 to help poor people with land lines. it morphed into cell phones in 2008 and the cost of this program spiraling out of control. we re not saying we don t want to help poor people, but there is a tremendous amount of waste and fraud going on. $2.2 billion a year is spent on 6 million free cell phones. this is a system, a program that s riddled with waste and because. but wait, you think that s bad? you re paying for this. you re paying for these free cell phones. you think that s bad? wait til you hear this. we re going to extend the free cell phone program to free high gretchen: why?ree broad band. a survey found 36% of those people who are not hooked up to broad band couldn t afford it.
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