We Pay For Them And Obama Puts his Damn Name On the Giveaway! 1 million Ohioans using free phone program

These phones are paid for through one of  those inexplicable added miscellaneous taxes tagged on our phone bills. Then Obama sticks his name on these phones as his own giveaway program! What an SOB! Who the hell does he really think he is?

1 million Ohioans using free phone program | www.daytondailynews.com

Fees on phone bills pay for $1.5 billion national Lifeline program

By Josh Sweigart

Staff Writer

A program that provides subsidized phone service to low-income individuals has nearly doubled in size in Ohio in the past year — now covering more than a million people. At the same time, federal officials say they’re reining in waste, fraud and abuse in the program.

The Federal Communications Commission announced recently that reforms have saved $43 million since January and are expected to save $200 million by year’s end. In Ohio, savings are expected to be $2.9 million a year.

The savings were realized in part because the government gave out fewer cellphones to ineligible people and took steps to avoid issuing duplicate phones.

But the size of the program in the state — and profits to the increasing number of cellphone companies involved — has exploded in recent months, according to a Dayton Daily News analysis of program data. ...

This [phone giveaway] growth worries people like Tom Schatz, president of the watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste. 

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