Bush has spent $2.2 MILLION of YOUR money on propaganda campaign

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The Bush administration has spent millions of dollars in the past two months on its campaign to overhaul Social Security, narrowly skirting laws that prohibit spending of taxpayer funds to indirectly lobby Congress.

President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and more than 20 other administration officials have blanketed the country since early February, delivering more than 100 speeches in 37 states in an effort to rally the public behind Bush's Social Security plans. Although no hard figures on costs are available, rough calculations show the White House and other agencies have spent at least $2.2 million on the campaign so far.

The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office has been asked by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., to investigate the costs of the pro-privatization effort. Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee have also asked quietly for an accounting, according to the Washington Post.

Waxman, the top Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, asked the GAO to determine whether "the Bush administration has crossed the line from education to propaganda."

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B5E61F470-3030-48F6-B741-AE9A15AF4903%7D&siteid=mktw

[democracyindanger]

1. Oh, man...if we can take back even one branch of Congress in 2006...

Congressional investigations for everybody!

[SoCalDem]

2. narrowly skirting?? That skirt's up over their heads

Every venue that's NOT open to the public...ALL THE PUBLIC, should be declared ILLEGAL..

[Catchawave]

3. Nor is public debate/dissent allowed ?

This is so wrong.

[Bluebear]

5. "Bush not welcomed by all Tucsonans; two arrested"

http://www.fox11az.com/cgi-bin/bi/gold_print.cgi

Secret Service and Tucson police constantly on watch

11:15 AM MST on Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Bush supporters holding tickets to see the President lined up at the Tucson Convention center as early as 7:30am. But, they weren't alone. Residents protesting at the event started gathering around the same time.

"Social security was not meant to be an investment scheme...it was meant to protect people," shouted Marv Sorensen, while in an argument with a Bush supporter.

Sorensen and others made it very clear that they hope the President's proposals to reform Social Security will not be approved.

Protestors could only stand in designated areas in front of TCC. Some had to stand on the west sidewalk along the driveway into the building. Others were allowed about 50 feet away from the TCC entrance.

A UA student attending the event was mistaken for a protestor. Steven Gerner says a staff member took his free ticket away because he was wearing a T-shirt showing his Democratic Party affiliation. .....

[ElectricIron Sweeney]

4. Can't be my money; I never had that much.

[flyarm]

6. ohhh but don't worry he is not feeding the needy!!

you know the scenerio..the repukes hate feeding the needy..but propaganda..no problem for them..wasting tax dollars for propaganda..no problem for them...200 billion on a war of lies..no problem for repukes..but feed a needy person with health care, or foodstamps..look out...the repukes will be on the war path...

such pig hypoctrites!!

fly

[Bluebear]

7. It would not even occur to them

Unless it was "faith based". yeah that's it, "faith based".