“Bidenomics” at Work
The Government Accountability Office released a report yesterday detailing the first two years of spending from Obamacare’s Prevention and Public Health fund. The report itself is 134 pages long – but its essence can be found on pages 101 through 103. There, GAO highlights more than $5 million in spending on seven separate grant programs covering media and public relations. According to GAO, these grants for “advertising and marketing strategies” were intended “to provide enhanced media buying/placement support to the National Prevention Media Initiative to increase exposure of audiences to campaign messages in communities that received Communities Putting Prevention to Work awards. The goal of this activity is to achieve maximum additional exposure of existing/in-development creative campaign materials.”
In other words, the Obama Administration is wasting millions of dollars on PR contracts – to show how Obamacare is wasting billions of dollars on a prevention “slush fund,” all at a time the federal government is running trillion dollar deficits. If this isn’t an example of Joe Biden’s axiom of “spending money to keep from going bankrupt,” I don’t know what is.