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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Only half the story
	Date:	10/9/2012 4:36:04 PM

C'mon GF, either way this program is a govt funded train wreck and pinning some of the blame on Oblamer.....pun intended....is entirely appropriate. This program cost $700 million before TOTUS and now costs $1.6 billion! For you economically and mathematically challenged folks that represents a growth of more than 100% in a program that has been around since 1985. So like all the govt spending increases with the current administration, in a mere 3 1/2 years of a program that has been around for 27 years they have more than doubled it. Or looking at it another way, in 13% of the length of existence of this program they have increased the cost by 100%. Or like the crushing deficits that TOTUS has amassed, his administration in a short three plus years has spent more on this program than was spent under Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush combined.

Now the real question is why the dramatic increase and any plausible explanation is bad for TOTUS. It could be that the economy is so bad that more people genuinely need these phones or they won't be able to call in the plasma TV repairman when their big screen goes down which is an indictment of the current administration. Or it is that the current administration is actively promoting dependence on government like it has with food stamps, disability, etc. in order to garner more votes in November, which is bad. Or it could be both, which is double bad. Any way you look at it this is bad and yet another example of why a vote for Romney is a vote for the kind of change that might actually help Americans economically.

Thank you GF for providing me with yet another priceless opportunity to explain why TOTUS must go in November if America is going to avoid the fate of Europe.