Sounds good to me, whiners

You ever notice payphones on your trips to the land of endless pavement, movie theaters and shopping malls galore?  Turn the pages back about ten years and think about whether or not you remember a payphone just about anywhere you look.  Now think about today.  You probably couldn't find a payphone to save your life.  And why is this?  Because now that everyone and their mother has a cell phone that they can yap all day on, why would you need a payphone?  You don't.  According to this article at Anchorage Daily News, ACS is sending all of their payphones to the junkyard.  The state doesn't like this and is trying to stop it.

With pretty much any phone provider that you go to offering the 'lifeline' service, ANYONE can get a cell phone.  This is ridiculous.  You're on welfare- you qualify.  Then you get all of the features that I pay big dollars for and you only have to shell out $1 per month.  What a f*ckin bargain.  Then you can go buy your booze or drugs all you want.  I don't know if this is a state or federal program, but if this program was pulled- I bet you'd see a huge surge in payphone usage, State of Alaska.  Pull this program and I bet everyone and their mother would have to ditch that cell phone with unlimited minutes and texting and resort to using a payphone. 

The State of Alaska would like public input on whether these phones are needed or not.  What a waste of time and money.  ACS has already said that they are working with some communities to slap in some public use phones.  I'm assuming that these are phones where you don't have to plop quarters in.  I'm sure that communities that feel unsafe without these payphones can get some kind of a deal going where there are some of these public use phones.  I'll bet that these communities can purchase their own 'payphone' and just hook up a line just like everyone else in town has. 

Now when you're in Anchorage and you need to call someone, you can buy a relatively inexpensive 'disposable' phone.  Complete with rechargable minutes.  I've never used one of these, so I don't know all of the details.  No rocket science.  Getting rid of all the payphones sounds good to me, whiners.  I can live without payphones, I'm sure most other people can too.