CSP Magazine | December 2012

The True Cost of ObamaPhones

What’s really going on with the politically charged Lifeline service.

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You surely know of Obamacare. But ObamaPhones?

Yes, the election is over, and everything Obama will endure for at least the next four years. But this term caught our attention enough to investigate its origins. ObamaPhones became a rallying cry for conservative ringleaders such as Rush Limbaugh during the presidential election, thanks to a YouTube video portraying a Cleveland woman shouting her support for the president because he gives “everyone ObamaPhones.” 

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