[ExTxMarine]

The new site also tells curious readers that the program is not paid for by taxes, but by fees collected by the phone companies from paying phone users because the government demands it

By this logic, if I hold a gun to your head and tell you to give my wife all your money, I didn't rob you! And technically neither did my wife - she was just standing there when this non-incident occurred!

Tell me again, how these people got to be our "leaders!"

[nanetteclaret]

Just think! The “fees collected by the phone companies” helped to pay for the Spanish-American War (1898), and they finally got it paid for just a few years ago! I guess that’s when they switched to using the fees to pay for “Obamaphones.” So, in essence, we are still funding a war paid for by phone fees. This time, though, the war is against us.