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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 1992625" data-attributes="member: 7900">Since we've been being "schooled" in the history of the "Obama Phone" saga, I thought I would add just a little graphic to give a perspective of how much the program probably helped the Democrats and Obama.  This is a chart showing the government funding of the Lifeline program.  Below the image of the chart is a link to a Townhall.com site where I found the chart.So, if Bush was so bad, why didn't the increase in government funding of the Lifeline program make a dramatic upward turn during his 8 years instead of Obama's 3+ years?Note the dramatic rise in the cost of the program to the taxpayers (i.e. government funding) in the last few years.  Since the issue of tax and fees came up earlier, let me remind everyone that "government" whether under Republicans or Democrats has a tendency to not want to use the word "taxes."  Instead, they increase the use of "fees" and "penalties."  In fact, the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was only granted a status of being constitutional because they argued that the mandated "penalty" was actually a tax.  That was, of course, after they refused to call it a tax prior to passage and again wanted to call it a penalty even after it was ruled constitutional.  Government (whether Democrat or Republican controlled) would rather increase fees than taxes, for obvious reasons.<img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i1190.photobucket.com_albums_z458_TerryandJo_Nonsense_20Stuff_cd2c25cea24a8265a254039256bdb56c.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/kevinglass/2012/10/16/moroccan_pottery_obamaphones_and_gaydar_how_the_government_wasted_your_money_this_year/page/full/" target="_blank">Townhall story including the above chart.</a></blockquote>

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