[Mb-civic] Bush Tries to Hide Poverty Numbers

[The Daily Mislead]

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BUSH TRIES TO HIDE POVERTY NUMBERS

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.

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]

Sources:

1. "Ranks of Poverty, Uninsured Rose in 2003," The Guardian, 8/26/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1136375&l=52127.
2. "Bush's Records: All In The Timing," CBS News, 2/15/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1136375&l=52128.
3. "Under The Cover Of Darkness," TomPaine.com,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1136375&l=52129.


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