Politics > Politics-USA > Bush's Labor department Gestapo bars distribution of newsletter criticizing reform
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"Harry Hope" |
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16 Feb 2005 08:46:51 PM |
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Bush's Labor department Gestapo bars distribution of newsletter criticizing reform |
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/politics/10918055.htm
Wed, Feb. 16, 2005
Labor department bars distribution of newsletter criticizing reform
BY PHILIP DINE
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
WASHINGTON - (KRT) -
The Department of Labor is trying to stop federal employees from
receiving a union newsletter that includes an article critical of
President Bush's plans to change Social Security.
The department has distributed the quarterly newsletter since 1978 to
7,500 union members and other Labor Department employees outside of
Washington as part of its contract with the union that represents
those workers.
But officials decided to block distribution of the current edition
after learning about a column that referred to "the risky,
ill-conceived White House plan to save Social Security by destroying
it."
A top department official told managers to "take necessary and
reasonable steps to stop distribution of this edition ... any existing
bulk mail not distributed should not be distributed," according to an
internal memo obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Sieg Heil
Harry
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| User: "morbius" |
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| Title: Re: Bush's Labor department Gestapo bars distribution of newsletter criticizing reform |
16 Feb 2005 09:58:04 PM |
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wow, Harry, the propaganda shouldn't be paid for by taxpayers.
that's a good thing!!!!
morbius
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/politics/10918055.htm
Wed, Feb. 16, 2005
Labor department bars distribution of newsletter criticizing reform
BY PHILIP DINE
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
WASHINGTON - (KRT) -
The Department of Labor is trying to stop federal employees from
receiving a union newsletter that includes an article critical of
President Bush's plans to change Social Security.
The department has distributed the quarterly newsletter since 1978 to
7,500 union members and other Labor Department employees outside of
Washington as part of its contract with the union that represents
those workers.
But officials decided to block distribution of the current edition
after learning about a column that referred to "the risky,
ill-conceived White House plan to save Social Security by destroying
it."
A top department official told managers to "take necessary and
reasonable steps to stop distribution of this edition ... any existing
bulk mail not distributed should not be distributed," according to an
internal memo obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Sieg Heil
Harry
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| Title: Re: Bush's Labor department Gestapo bars distribution of newsletter criticizing reform |
17 Feb 2005 12:22:33 AM |
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morbius wrote:
wow, Harry, the propaganda shouldn't be paid for by taxpayers.
that's a good thing!!!!
morbius
If you read it more carefully, I believe the item is paid
for by the union.
The government simply distributes it through regular "mail"
channels.
If someone write a personal letter to you at the company
where you work, does the company trash it or redirect it to
your home. [Hmmm, better watch out for those bills for the
escort services.]
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