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To: combjelly who wrote (511384)	9/8/2009 4:42:28 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578837

With the Post article in hand, Democrats pounced. "The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students," said Richard Gephardt, then the House Majority Leader. "And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'" Democrats did not stop with words. Rep. William Ford, then chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate the cost and legality of Bush's appearance. On October 17, 1991, Ford summoned then-Education Secretary Lamar Alexander and other top Bush administration officials to testify at a hearing devoted to the speech. "The hearing this morning is to really examine the expenditure of $26,750 of the Department of Education funds to produce and televise an appearance by President Bush at Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington, DC," Ford began. "As the chairman of the committee charged with the authorization and implementation of education programs, I am very much interested in the justification, rationale for giving the White House scarce education funds to produce a media event."

To: combjelly who wrote (511384)	9/8/2009 5:01:17 PM
From: HPilot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578837

You conveniently ignored Hoover's tax cuts which led to the Great Depresssion. Bull shit, it was tax increases before and during Hoover's administration that was largley responsible for the depresion. Tax rates were unreal. It would have been unsustainable for a lot earlier if it wasn't for the fact that soooo many didn't pay their tax's. It wasn't just Al Capone. Hoover lowered tax's but as I recall they were not enough and raised again by Congress the next year.