One Of The Reasons For The Budget Deficit

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Yesterday the Washington Examiner reported that Judicial Watch had used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain documents from the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) relating to a series of three Medicare television ads featuring Andy Griffith.  The ads were considered misleading by a number of press outliets including FactCheck.org.

The article points out that $3,184,000 of taxpayer money was used to produce and air the advertisements in order to educate the people who depend on Medicare about the changes in Medicare as a result of Obamacare.  Unfortunately, the information given in the ads was not true!

It is also interesting that the ads were produced by someone who has in the past worked on the campaigns of Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Al Gore.  I'm glad they chose an objective person for the campaign!

As a percentage of the overall federal budget, $3,184,000 may not seem like a lot of money, but to spend taxpayers' money on a publicity campaign to support legislation that is unpopular with the voters just seems wrong.  We do not have the extra money to spend right now, and the ads were not a good way to spend money at all.

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