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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (132924)	4/10/2013 11:51:32 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Q: Has the Obama administration started a program to use "taxpayer money" to give free cell phones to welfare recipients? A: No. Low-income households have been eligible for discounted telephone service for more than a decade. But the program is funded by telecom companies, not by taxes, and the president has nothing to do with it. The authorization for this program was set up under Reagan. It was called the Lifeline program. It started first with helping those who are disabled or poor to have basic telephone service. When cell phones came out, they expanded the program to cellphones.