Thread: Obama Voter Says Vote for Obama because he gives a free Phone

Originally Posted by Illegalssuck

Friday when this was first posted it had 2335 views it's now 2,674,923. All I can say is thank you, very loud obnoxious lady. Libs. are saying this program was started by Bush. Bush's program was designed so that battered and abused women and low income families had access to 911.

Haha! That is what I thought. Libs love to trot out dregs like this and then it ends up blowing up in their face. What a freakin JOKE this lady is. Alex Jones is right - she sounds like a Muppet. Probably has the brains of one too. Notice how all she could say against Romney is that "he sucks"? She has not the mental capacity to actually tell us why. People like this make me want to THROW UP.

This has been around since 1985.
It expanded to cell phones in 2008.

Since 1985 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has operated a program called Lifeline, originally designed to provide free landline phone service for low-income individuals. The government subsidizes telecommunications firms providing the service, and those firms also pass on costs to customers via the “Universal Service Charge” on their phone bills.

The program expanded to include cell phones in 2008. That change has rapidly increased the cost to the federal government—$1.6 billion in 2011, up from $772 million in 2008. The number of Lifeline beneficiaries rose from 7.1 million to 12.5 million during the same period; cell phones account for roughly half of that 12.5 million.

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