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| John
Kerry for President, Inc.
"Close Enough"
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Teacher:
George it looks like you’re having a little trouble with your math….
Little George: What do you mean? Teacher: Well, your budget numbers don’t add up. Little George: Well they’re close enough. Teacher: George, you’ve overspent by $6 trillion. Little George: Oh, is that a lot? Teacher: (Sighing) Well yes it is…OK, here, you forgot to pay for the cost of making your tax cut permanent. … That adds $2.2 trillion alone. Little George: Well I really want it. Teacher: And now here, you spent another $616 billion for your prescription drug plan. Little George: I know, but the drug companies need the money. Teacher: And see this little plan to privatize social security? Little George: Yeah? Teacher: Well that costs $1.4 trillion. Little George: I know, and I don’t even like the program. Teacher: Well, George if you’re going to spend all this money, you have to figure out a way to pay for it. Little George: Well you just watch. When I’m president, I’m gonna spend as much money as I want. Narrator: And that’s exactly what George Bush did…. |
| On the screen: Done in the style of writing on a chalk board. |
| Notes and Observations: This Internet ad was tied to a report the campaign released the same day "Report on More than $6 Trillion of Unpaid Bush Initiatives: Bush Has Presided Over a Reckless Spending Explosion." Bush-Cheney '04 responded with a five-page Memorandum in which policy director Tim Adams concluded that "Senator Kerry's attack includes intiatives that he claims to support and sometimes voted to increase. Much of Kerry's $1.7 trillion in new spending would go on top of the costs listed above." |