I heard a caller (black female on welfare) on the Boortz show last week refer to her welfare cell phone as her "Obama Phone". It is amazing. A program started in 1996 to provide discounted land-line service for low-income households (by taxing the middle class' phone bills with the Universal Service Fund fee), was expanded to cell phones in the 2000s. But not in the form of a nominal discount, like the land line program, but instead a complete free phone with a monthly minute allotment. The program has grown from $772 million in 2008 to $1.6 billion in 2011.
But what is worse is now welfare queens proudly call their welfare phones "Obama Phones". They may well have had a government cell phone before Obama, but now they think Obama is the reason they have their phone.
I guess next is the EBT card will be called the "Obama card". Obama = Welfare.