Bush Tries to Hide Poverty Numbers

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> Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:10:41 -0400 (EDT)

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> Bush Tries to Hide Poverty Numbers

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> BUSH TRIES TO HIDE POVERTY NUMBERS

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> Anticipating the release of devastating new poverty

> and health care

> statistics, the Bush administration today took the

> extraordinary step today

> of trying to bury the numbers. Specifically, the

> Administration had its top

> political appointee at the Census Bureau release the

> numbers a month earlier

> than usual, during the August congressional recess

> when many reporters and

> Americans take their summer vacations. The

> rescheduling of the announcement

> also means that the bad numbers will not come out in

> September immediately

> after the Republican National Convention, when they

> have traditionally been

> released.

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> With the President's economic and health care agenda

> leaving millions

> behind, the Associated Press reports, " the

> statistics today show the number

> of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.3

> million last year, while the

> ranks of the uninsured swelled by 1.4 million. " [1]

>

> This is not the first time the White House and

> Republicans have gone to

> great lengths to hide damning information. As CBS

> News reported, President

> Bush released his military service records late on a

> Friday night on the eve

> of a three day weekend in order to make sure the

> story about his poor

> attendance was seen by as few people as possible.[2]

>

> In Congress, GOP leaders regularly pass the most

> controversial bills in the

> middle of the night. Those included bills to slash

> veterans benefits and

> health/education funding, as well as spending $87

> billion on war in Iraq and

> passing the President's Medicare bill.[3]

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> Sources:

>

> 1. " Ranks of Poverty, Uninsured Rose in 2003, " The

> Guardian, 8/26/04,

http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2973095 & l=52131.

 

 

> 2. " Bush's Records: All In The Timing, " CBS News,

> 2/15/04,

http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2973095 & l=52132.

 

> 3. " Under The Cover Of Darkness, " TomPaine.com,

http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2973095 & l=52133.

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