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January 23, 2013

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A new Public Notice poll shows more Americans trust Oprah than the federal government with their money. President Obama recently said that “we don’t have a spending problem,” but a majority of Americans (74 percent) believe the government spends too much, according to the poll. Public Notice Executive Director Gretchen Hamel joined the Phil Valentine Show to discuss.

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Bankrupting America Releases New Video About Government Overspending

Jan 10

As the debt ceiling battle fast approaches, the organization Bankrupting America has released a YouTube video to convince Congress that government overspending must be stopped and the budget needs to be balanced.

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Debt Wish: Hopes and Dreams and Budgets

Jan 10

With the nomination of Jacob Lew to serve as secretary of the Treasury, Bankrupting America has compiled some of the most noteworthy budget and fiscal-related items from his time as White House chief of staff and director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Since Lew joined OMB, Obama has struggled to meet budget deadlines and his budget proposals have faced bipartisan opposition in Congress.

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New Video: Talk is Cheap, Overspending is Not

Jan 10

For years, leaders have been all talk and no action when it comes to tackling our overspending problem, and now Bankrupting America, a project of Public Notice, is calling them out for the empty promises with a new video as part of our “Talk is Cheap, Overspending is Not” campaign that launched in early January.

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Debt Wish: The Denial

Jan 9

The first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one. Our deficit is on pace to top $1 trillion for the fifth straight year. Washington hasn’t produced a budget in more than a thousand days. We’re about to blow through another debt ceiling. Yet, according to our current administration, “We don’t have a spending problem.”

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Debt Wish: Vacations and Magic Coins

Jan 11

The U.S. could hit the debt ceiling as early as Feb. 15, but Washington doesn’t seem to be too worried. All that hard work to avoid the fiscal cliff at 2 a.m. on New Year’s Day—two hours after the technical deadline—was tiring. So Congress decided to take the week off.

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Radio: AM Tampa Bay

Dec 6

With no real progress in the fiscal cliff negotiations, Americans remain fearful that they will see a substantial rise in taxes coming in 2013. Gretchen Hamel joins AM Tampa Bay to discuss the current state of the cliff talks and why this standstill could mean politics will drive us off the cliff.

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A Dose of Debt Ceiling Reality for President Obama

Jan 16

Sometimes it feels like we swing from one fiscal crisis to the next. Earlier this month it was the fiscal cliff, now it is the debt ceiling, and after that will be the sequester. … Consider this your dose of debt ceiling reality.

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Debt Wish: Firemen First?

Jan 15

With all the wasteful spending going on in Washington, President Obama is saying Social Security checks, veterans’ benefits and pay for “specialists who track down loose nuclear materials” will be the first to go. Sounds like another chapter in the time-honored Washington tradition of creating “hyperventilated worst-case scenarios” to avoid making real spending cuts.

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New Video The Story of Business: The Opportunity to Compete

Dec 4

Bankrupting America, a project of Public Notice, released its latest video in the "Story of Business" series looking at how burdensome government regulations impact real businesses struggling in today's economy.

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Debt Wish: Shiny Object

Jan 11

Today, the Pentagon took the first step in preparation for the sequester. See what Washington was up to.

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Bankrupting America Launches Deficit Reduction Plan Resource Center

Dec 10

Can’t remember the details of all those deficit reduction plans being proposed by various organizations and members of Congress? Bankrupting America has the solution.

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Gretchen Hamel on Fox and Friends

Jan 7

We're more than $16 trillion in debt, and while Congress may have averted the fiscal cliff, they didn't make any real spending cuts in the process. In the past we've heard promises from lawmakers to cut spending, and now Bankrupting America, a project of Public Notice, is holding them accountable to those promises using their own words with a new campaign, "Talk is Cheap, Overspending is Not."

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Twelve Years Ago We Had No Deficit and No IPods.

Dec 15

Upon hearing the Treasury Department’s announcement of another deficit for the month of November and its projection that we’re on track for our fifth straight year of a trillion dollar budget deficit, I took a trip down memory lane. …

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Talk Is Cheap, Overspending Is Not

Jan 2

Bankrupting America, a project of Public Notice, announced today a new campaign, "Talk is Cheap, Overspending is Not," holding Washington lawmakers accountable for promises to cut wasteful spending and get America's debt and deficits under control. The campaign will feature advertising at Capitol South and Union Station metro stops in Washington, D.C., as well as online advertising.

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Bankrupting America Releases "'Twas the Night Before Cliff-mas"

Dec 18

Bankrupting America, a project of Public Notice, today released “’Twas the Night Before Cliff-Mas,” a 14-page book that parodies the famous poem “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” with a clever take on the fiscal cliff negotiations and how we came to the precipice of fiscal disaster.

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Radio: Bill LuMaye Show

Dec 20

The fiscal cliff is closer than ever and it seems as though Washington may not be able to put partisan politics aside in time. Gretchen Hamel, executive director of Public Notice, joins Bill LuMaye to discuss this and more.

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