Who thinks a great place to save budget money would be to start by cutting out Obama phones?

Yes an drug-test the welfare leeches.

Actually, the addition of cell phones to the program (which actually started 25 years ago under Ronald Reagan) was created by George W. Bush and the Republican Congress.

Not "the libs."

And it's paid for by telecom companies, funded by the Universal Service fee on your phone bill; the fund is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company, an independent, not-for-profit corporation.

It's costing your household about $2.00 every month. Dear god, $24 a year !!! Who can possibly handle that????

Provision of subsidized phone service to low-income individuals originated in the Reagan administration following the break-up of AT&T in 1984. It was expanded and formalized by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The subsidized cell phone variation was instituted by the Bush administration in 2008. The program is paid for by telecommunications companies through an independent non-profit, not through tax revenue, ergo the federal budget is not affected by it.

The goal of the telecommunications act of 1931 was to see to it that every American has access to a phone. Every administration has a had a program in place to try to achieve that goal ever since. Were you against it when the Bush administration owned it? How about Reagan?

If you are so bent on living in a country with no government support check out Somalia, I hear its lovely.

I would start cuts with corporate welfare, the wars and duplicated budget items and 14 of the 15 intelligence agencies. That would save us hundreds of billions. I am ok with eliminating the Dumbyaphones too.

Well if we're all gonna get rid of cell phones cons should get rid of these too

and the fact that lots of people buy phones and pay cell phone bills means no one puts back money into the economy So let's cut off one way money is going back into the economy good job .

Remember the Bush phones too? Please, social welfare programs make up a mere 59 billion dollars while corporate welfare makes up 96 billion of the government's deficit spending which is coming from your taxes. Why don't you go and complain about that?

Liberals will claim Obamaphones benefit society by providing a phone number so that they can call the individual back for a job interview.

Funny thing is that those individuals aren't looking for jobs.

[democRAT logic]

That money comes from taxes added to everyone's phone bill and has nothing to do with the budget.

It would help a lot if Obama and family would quit taking a vacation every other week!

I'd start with Obama's corporate and union welfare programs.