February 2009
American Issues Project has launched a major television advertising campaign spotlighting the excessive spending and pet projects within the far-reaching stimulus legislation, which the Congressional Budget Office has said will harm the American economy in the long term.
The ad will begin running on FOX News, CNN, CNN Headline News, CNBC and FOX Business Network.
"Washington is, once again, out of touch with the American people," said American Issues Project President Ed Martin.
"Congress has used the anxiety of the American people as a vehicle for appeasing special interest groups and financing their pork projects back home. This type of spending has no place within emergency legislation intended to jump-start the economy."
The ad also showcases examples of the billions spent on pork projects–including golf carts, fish hatcheries and remodeled federal offices–and targets liberal senator Charles Schumer for his claim on the Senate floor that "the American people really don't care" about "porky amendments."
American Issues Project's ad examines assertions that the funding in the stimulus package will not help the economy, neither this year nor in the long term, according to economists and the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
"With this so-called stimulus bill, it's the government that will grow, not the economy. The spending circus inWashington must stop before our politicians amass generational debt even further out of our control," said Martin.
The ad buy of nearly one million dollars urges concerned citizens to text ENOUGH to 97180 if they want to join the organization.
An electronic version of the ad, plus full documentation for all statements made, is available at American Issues Project's website: http://www.americanissuesproject.org
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