{"id":2478,"date":"2010-12-04T20:29:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T20:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2010-12-04T20:29:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T20:29:16","slug":"one_of_the_reasons_for_the_bud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2478","title":{"rendered":"One Of The Reasons For The Budget Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/op-eds\/2010\/12\/tom-fitton-rest-story-those-andy-griffith-obamacare-ads\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;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.&nbsp; The ads were considered misleading by a number of press outliets including FactCheck.org.<\/p>\n<p>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.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the information given in the ads was not true!<\/p>\n<p>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.&nbsp; I&#8217;m glad they chose an objective person for the campaign!<\/p>\n<p>As a percentage of the overall federal budget, $3,184,000 may not seem like a lot of money, but to spend taxpayers&#8217; money on a publicity campaign to support legislation that is unpopular with the voters just seems wrong.&nbsp; We do not have the extra money to spend right now, and the ads were not a good way to spend money at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Washington Examiner&nbsp;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.&nbsp; The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}