I knew it was a big number, but $1,600,000,000? Add that to the trillion we will have spent on the Iraq war, and I think it's fair to say that Republicans are not exactly frugal. The next time I hear some right-winger complaining about some piddly program they don't like, saying, "not MY tax dollars" I think I'll explode.
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UPDATE: PREPACKAGED NEWS
How much is good press worth? To the Bush administration, about $1.6 billion.
That's how much seven federal departments spent from 2003 through the second quarter of 2005 on 343 contracts with public relations firms, advertising agencies, media organizations and individuals, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
The 154-page report provides the most comprehensive look to date at the scope of federal spending in an area that generated substantial controversy last year. Congressional Democrats asked the GAO to look into federal public relations contracts last spring at the height of the furor over government-sponsored prepackaged news and journalism-for-sale. . .
Read more at: WashingtonPost.com
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UPDATE: PREPACKAGED NEWS
How much is good press worth? To the Bush administration, about $1.6 billion.
That's how much seven federal departments spent from 2003 through the second quarter of 2005 on 343 contracts with public relations firms, advertising agencies, media organizations and individuals, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
The 154-page report provides the most comprehensive look to date at the scope of federal spending in an area that generated substantial controversy last year. Congressional Democrats asked the GAO to look into federal public relations contracts last spring at the height of the furor over government-sponsored prepackaged news and journalism-for-sale. . .
Read more at: WashingtonPost.com
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