Originally Posted by
johnso29
You might want to do some more research, and find out who was office in 2008.
You read the wrong part of the article. Here is clarification from another source.
The program as it exists today was created over a decade ago by an act of Congress, the Telecommunications Act of 1996. A version of the Lifeline program was already in operation as far back as the early 1980s. (Source: USAC.org)
Congress created this...not Bush...not Obama.