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Re:The FCC is stopping 9 companies from providing subsidized... by jacobolus on Friday February 03, 2017 @11:14PM (#13565610)
There are some folks cheating the system like those right-wing militia ranchers who “adopt” dozens of orphaned children and then make them do hard labor, while collecting state support for it.
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Re:The FCC is stopping 9 companies from providing subsidized... by enraged_camel on Saturday February 04, 2017 @02:12AM (#13566038)
This sounds about as real as the "welfare queens driving Cadillacs" myth.
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Re:The FCC is stopping 9 companies from providing subsidized... by jacobolus on Saturday February 04, 2017 @04:48AM (#13566416)
e.g. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/get-the-government-s-han...

Obviously this isn’t a widespread problem though, and should be dealt with on a case by case basis.

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