I'm sure it's annoying to have your Call of Duty game on the X-box interrupted daily by these annoying calls. Maybe you should get a job instead of living with your mom and sucking off of the government teat. You probably shouldn't have given out the number of your free Obama Phone.
The cable communication act of 1984 placed free phones in homes for emergency purposes, passed by a GOP congress and signed by Ronny Regan; it was amended in 1996 by a GOP congress and signed by slick Willie to include cell phones. Aside from your bigotry how did it become an Obama phone?
The cell phone distribution program did begin in 2008, the year Obama was elected president, but that is a coincidence. Let’s look more closely at the facts.
Notice that earlier we said Link-Up helps fund “installation.” What installation does a cell phone have? None. So why is installation part of Link-Up, which is under the Lifeline program umbrella? Because, the whole thing began back in 1996 when the Federal Communications Commission authorized the programs for landline phones. At that time it provided discounts on landline phones only, for obvious reasons.
To this day the government provides discounts on landline phones for financially disadvantaged people in the United States and U.S. territories. The Link-Up portion helps with the installation and the Lifeline Assistance part helps with the monthly bills, to the tune of roughly ten dollars a month.
So, the subsidization of phones began under President Clinton, and has continued under Presidents Bush and Obama
Over that time, the usage of cell phones rose and the costs came down. Assuming one believes in the Lifeline program in the first place, and remembering that the FCC has mandated the program, it only makes sense to expand the phone assistance program to include cell phones. So, in 2008 the first application of this program for mobile phones began when a company called Tracfone started their Safelink Wireless service in Tennessee..