House Democrats criticize AT&T’s exclusive Apple iPhone deal

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  3. Who is dumb enough to criticize AT&T’s $175 early termination fee as though every other cell provider hasn’t been doing the same thing since the dawn of the cell phone industry?

    I know! Our elected representatives are that dumb! In fact, they’re the sorriest bunch of losers ever seen together in the same place at the same time.

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  4. I have never been more embarrased to be an American. The greed showing amongst people claiming to be Christian is amazing.

    I don’t know about the rest of you, but some I believe that government restraints on businesses need to take place. People working for minimum wage jobs cannot afford to put gas in their cars to go to work while gas companys are making record profits. These same minimum wage workers cannot afford to pay the tolls on the increased number of toll roads that are going up because greedy Americans don’t want the government to build the roads. My insurance gets more expensive every passing year while my benefits go down. I could go on and on.

    What is your answer to the question “Are you better off today than you were eight years ago?” My answer is that I am worse off today than I was eight years ago even though I have received two graduate degrees in that time. I don’t care that Clinton was with more people than his wife. He didn’t sale weapons to terrorists, he wasn’t in bed with the oil companies, and I was better off back then. The fact that Clinton knew how to actually LEAD instead of following Fundamentalist Christians (who are every bit as dangerous as Fundamentalist Muslims) makes him a far superior President to any recent Republican.

    As far a s Carter goes, he puts his money where his mouth is. He has spent his time since his presidency making this world a truly better place. Most of you are probably spending too much time listening to Fox News to actually research for yourselves.

    I feel sorry for all those Americans who cannot think for themselves.

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  5. @Kit-N
    It’s great when Dems start fighting Dems. Kinda like Al Qaida fighting Iran. (One of their strongest supporters!)

    Maybe SJ will change affiliations now.

    No, SJ doesn’t need to change anything. You do, meaning you need to do some research before posting a bad analogy.
    Al Qaida and Iran are run by rival Islamic religious sects who appear to hate each another. You know, the Sunni and Shiite factions and militias who are busy killing each other in Iraq.

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  6. Ted…

    Bite me!

    And your argument is specious and self-serving and is equivalent to a child saying “How was I to know that juggling the knives would result in me stabbing myself in the foot?”.

    What did illegally funding the Contras – who used to like skinning their opponents and leaving the corpses hanging (little charmers) – have to do with the Middle East? I know that some of you right-wingnuts have issues locating countries on a map, but Nicaragua is a long way from West Asia.

    Oh, and bite me.

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  9. What? Didn’t this guy read the fine print on his previous cell contracts or is the iPhone his first cell phone?

    To read this guy, you’d think exclusivity and early termination fees were new with the iPhone. This just sounds like politicians wanting attention. What a waste.

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  11. I like the quote, MDN. I like the fact that information control can be objective and portray both sides of an issue, as long as they are positive on Apple, of course.

    Time for those politicians to demand more Apple in the government workplace.

    MDN MW = “union”

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  21. it’s amazing greedy people are.

    it’s also amazing to see that many people think that having the government pay for things like, i don’t know, healthcare and such believe it’s wrong. europe is a socialist hell? do you realize we’re 37th in the WORLD in healthcare? 37? that’s pretty bad for the “greatest country in the world.” any thoughts here? any way to dispute that? nope. it’s a fact. we’re not always right and we’ve rarely been anything but wrong the last few years since 2000.

    it’s sad. but, you’re so determined to keep your stupid party lines and make sure that there is still some form of discrimination or segregation in the country that none of it matters. democrats are always pussies! republicans are always greedy old white men! i tend to believe the republican statement more than the other, but i am grown up and educated enough to know when either side is lying.

    gw bush will go down in history as our worst president. make no mistake about it. he has no belief in actual democracy as proven by his actions, ignorance of civil liberties, disregard of the other branches of government, and all his wannabe cowboys and indians games he’s playing. we’re living through hell people. nothing is getting better in this company unless you run a large oil company or make well over a few hundred grand per yer. otherwise, your life is difficult and it isn’t getting easier. under clinton there was a budget surplus! there were jobs! life was moving and progressing. he reversed 12 years of gop fuck ups and wastes of money. now, we’re in the LARGEST deficit ever and in a “war” which has accomplished nothing in an area we should not even be in. and if you’re stupid enough to actually believe that al queda had anything to do with saddam hussein, you just need to crawl in a hole and stop breathing. everyone that presented that evidence has gone back and stated that it was inflated and they basically lied. hmm…you still trust cowboy george?

    wake up, everyone! regardless of which side you may lie, there are problems and no one in the government is really going to fix it yet. it’s a pain in the ass.

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  22. The exclusive right only last for five years. Apple can change which carrier to work with once it is expires. If congress want to take away five years exclusive rights, take away 18 years for patents from pharmaceutical companies and life + 100 years for copyright from movie and music industries.

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  24. It’s posts like these that keep me from taking this site seriously.

    Dear reader: It shouldn’t matter to you what you affiliation is…you all should be pissed that you’re being played a tool by this site into commenting on mindless troll bait.

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