Obama buying votes with free cell phone....

[badrose]

....The program is called Lifeline, established in 1984, originally created to subsidize landline phone service for low income Americans, funded by government-collected telecommunication fees, paid by consumers.

In 2008, the program was expanded to support cell phones which quickly escalated the cost of the program. In 2008 the program cost $772 million, but by 2011 it cost $1.6 billion.

A 2011 audit found that 269,000 wireless Lifeline subscribers were receiving free phones and monthly service from two or more carriers. Several websites have been created to promote “free” government cell phones, including the”The Obama Cell Phone” website at Obamaphone.net.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/where-...3#.UGWae1GOwrc

Un Freaking Real!

OBAMA HAS MY VOTE, HE GAVE ME A FREE PHONE...http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=tpAOwJvTOio

[Doc]

Program started under Bush to actually help people, bastardized into "free phones" and a far different program that was originally intended. Liberals wonder why true conservatives get pissed off about the spending when you have crap like this going on. You have advertisements on TV telling you how to qualify for food stamps, you have an active recruitment by the administration to get people on the dole and beholden to the gov't, all in exchange for a vote.

[imsoblue]

[badrose]

1 million Ohioans using free phone program

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/...s-in-oh/nRDqC/


The program in Ohio cost $26.9 million in the first quarter of 2012, the most recent data available, versus $15.6 million in the same timeframe in 2011. Compared to the first quarter of 2011, the number of people in the program nearly doubled to more than a million.

[dan_bgblue]

What a Coincidence

[dan_bgblue]

http://washingtonexaminer.com/obamap...tm_medium=feed

[CitizenBBN]

Just another political boondoggle. Like warming, people seem to think fraud on this scale can't occur, and it's occurring over and over on exactly this scale. Not millions, BILLIONS of dollars of fraud and funneling of money from the workers of this nation to the lazy, the self serving, and the uber rich but politically well connected. Any surprise one of the biggest players is an Obama fundraiser? Like all the green companies?

Billions upon billions, trillions of dollars that could be used as capital and to make better lives for people working their asses off out there. Going to the rich elite and the undeserving schemers.