"Family, Verizon far apart over nearly $18,000 phone bill"

This is a good reflection for just how greedy and slimy companies can get, normally such scams are not done in such an obvious way. It's like me going up to a person, offering them a shoeshine for $5, then turning around the next day and asking for the remaining $10,000. Even though I may not have made clear the total amount the person would owe for the service (perhaps I said it in a whisper), it is not my responsibility to properly inform my customers of the full cost of my services. Not only that, but if I did, I would not make nearly as much money. A business model based on trying to rip people off is very common place here in America. Credit card and cell phone companies are ran by people that seem to get off by searching for ways to screw people over. Legitimate businesses seem to be going out of style, isn't the free market system great? Applying 'survival of the fittest' principles to human society will insure that only the rich get rich, and the poor die of starvation, it is evolution, it is natural...right? Strange how bible-thumping republicans love the free market system so much....well I'm done ranting, time to look up why socialism is so evil.