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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWH should fund ads and mailers to every household to correct the spread of ACA lies. Bush used funds
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for tv ads and to send mailers to ANNOUNCE to taxpayers that they would be getting checks in the future as part of his tax rebate plan in summer of 2001 to begin spending Clinton's surplus.
Remember those $300 or $600 checks they distributed that summer to make it seem as if EVERYONE would be benefitting from Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest plan taking shape at the time? Bush WH spent PLENTY of our tax dollars selling it in every mailer sent about the future rebate check.
Bush used a ton of our tax dollars to trumpet that big scam. Why shouldn't this WH use dollars to CORRECT the GOP's tsunami of lies about this Healthcare Law?
"We are pleased to inform you that the United States Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, which provides long-term tax relief for all Americans who pay income taxes."
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Democrats don't do things like that. The Republicans wouldn't like it.
blm
(113,069 posts)the law in those ads and mailers, but they were really to campaign for his next round of tax cuts for the wealthiest - like bribe money.
The ACA is a law that passed, but, the majority of public still find confusing because of GOP interference. He is within his rights to educate the public about the actual LAW.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)which they may exercise only with Republican permission.
Otherwise the Republicans say mean things about them.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)But I believe that Congress specifically withheld funding for this sort of activity.
blm
(113,069 posts)Push the fact that Bush did it with congress' blessing for something so blatantly political.
And...fer chrissakes....Where is the fvcking news media?
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)Here's an article about the lack of funding:
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has gone, hat in hand, to health industry officials, asking them to make large financial donations to help with the effort to implement President Obama's landmark health-care law, two people familiar with the outreach said.
Her unusual fundraising push comes after Congress repeatedly rejected the Obama administration's requests for additional funds to set up the Affordable Care Act, leaving HHS to implement the president's signature legislative accomplishment on what officials have described as a shoestring budget.
Over the past three months, Sebelius has made multiple phone calls to health industry executives, community organizations and church groups and asked that they contribute whatever they can to nonprofit groups that are working to enroll uninsured Americans and increase awareness of the law, according to an HHS official and an industry person familiar with the secretary's activities. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk openly about private discussions.
Budget Request Denied
blm
(113,069 posts)This is an emergency - About time the WH see it and come up with a simple, pragmatic way to fund and spread the TRUTH.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)The first article I saw on this subject (can't find it now) makes it clear that the United States Government is being outspent on this subject by the Koch Brothers. The blocking of additional funds for education and outreach was a deliberate action by the House Republicans to ensure that the American public heard only the lies.
And when Sibelius went to the insurance companies (as described in the linked article), suggesting that they should be the ones to carry the message, the GOP went batshit crazy. In the end, I think insurance companies WILL market their projects in a way that debunks many of the lies, but that's going to take some time.