Pinnables
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Krunk with Kash
Last year, Washington politicians overspent by $1 trillion. Are politicians krunk with kash?
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Krunk with Kash
You wouldn't give this kid more money. Are Washington politicians any different?
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Krunk with Kash
Last year Washington overspent by $1,000,000,000,000 - but now politicians claim they can't cut anything?
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FAA Furloughs
Congress granted the FAA flexibility to make 4% budget cuts the #SmartWay - even though the FAA never asked for it. REPIN if you think it's time to stop playing politics and balance our budget!
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FAA Furloughs
REPIN if you agree there is a #SmartWay to cut spending!
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FAA Furloughs
The FAA has been granted the flexibility to stop furloughs and make cuts the #SmartWay.
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FAA Furloughs
Sequester cuts to the FAA amounted to less than 4% of its $15.9 billion budget.
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FAA Furloughs
A 4% budget cut shouldn't result in delays for 40% of flights. REPIN if you agree!
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Voters Speak: More needs to be cut
After sequestration, 61% of Americans think Washington still needs to cut more government spending.
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Voters Speak: Balance the budget
70% of Americans agree: a balanced budget will help our economy.
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Voters Speak: Cut taxes, create jobs
62% of Americans say cutting taxes will create jobs.
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Voters Speak: Cut spending, grow the economy
66% of Americans think cutting spending will grow the economy.
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Tax Day: Doing More By Wasting Less
"The money that they're already taking from us should be used more wisely."
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Tax Day: Show Us Your Cuts
"[Politicians] need to cut spending, and they need to think responsibly about what they're doing with taxpayers' money."
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Tax Day: Stewardship
"Washington has never been a good steward of my tax dollars."
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Bankrupting America: Slowing our Economy
Washington must control overspending to get our economy back to work.
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Bankrupting America: Paying for Irresponsibility
If Washington can't get spending under control, Americans will have to foot the bill.
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Bankrupting America: Overwhelming National Debt
Our national debt is nearly $17 trillion - that's larger than the entire U.S. economy.
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Moms Speak: Washington Has a Lot To Learn
"What can politicians learn from America's moms? Budgeting and couponing."
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Moms Speak: Consequences of Debt
"[My grandchild's] quality of life is going to be less than what mine was and my own children's were."
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$880k to Study Snail Sex?
The feds are spending $880,000 to study snail sex. What more can we say?
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"Balance" in Washington
When Washington talks about a "balanced" approach, this is what they mean.
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Congress Sinks One On Spending Cuts
With the start of March Madness, weÂąre excited to tell you that Congress sunk a basket for fiscal responsibility by passing their continuing resolution for fiscal year 2013 without wasteful big-spending amendments!
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According To The Irish
"A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle."
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According To The Irish
"Tis better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money."
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According To The Irish
"[Washington politicians] don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it."
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According To The Irish
"Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools."
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According To The Irish
"Beware of people who dislike [cuts]."
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Barack Obama: We Have A Debt Crisis
President Obama says we don't have a debt crisis, but the facts tell a different story.
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Finding Pennies
General Services Administration paid $44 millions in bonuses to employees in 2011, despite reports that the agency was wasting taxpayer money on lavish travel, conferences and entertainment.
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Finding Pennies
Amtrak loses $80 million annually on food and drink services because of waste, theft and lack of oversight.
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Finding Pennies
Washington paid $200 million in 2010 to subsidize over 100 different routes across America for flights that are mostly empty, leaving taxpayers covering the cost of empty airline seats.
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Finding Pennies
The federal government pays $1.5 billion annually to private companies for advertising and marketing.
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Finding Pennies
The government spent $2.2 billion in 2012 giving phones to low-income Americans, but 41 percent of recipients didn't show eligibility, adding up to $902 million in possible fraud.
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Finding Pennies
The Postal Service over-printed 682 million Simpsons stamps that it later destroyed, wasting $1.2 million.
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Finding Pennies
The Army spent $5 billion on camouflage uniforms that actually made soldiers more visible. Then it canceled the program after 8 years.
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Finding Pennies
There are 49 redundant federal job-training programs administered by 9 agencies, costing $14.5 billion in 2010.
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Finding Pennies
The federal government wasted $108 billion in "improper" payments in 2012, meaning funds went to the wrong person, were the wrong amount, were not documented or the money was used improperly.
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Finding Pennies
$750 billion in health spending was wasted in 2009 on unneeded services, administrative costs and fraud.
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The Sequester
"President Obama has decided to travel more than 5,000 miles on his sequester fear-mongering tour."
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The Sequester
"They're nudging the potato across the table with their noses."
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The Sequester
"I think he should understand who is sitting on their posterior. We're doing our best to try to pass something."
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The Sequester
"[The Sequester] is a product of the president's own failed leadership."
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3-Cent Solution: Double Standard
"If we as a people could do it, why couldn't the government do it?"
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3-Cent Solution: Cut, Not Tax
"They should be cutting wasteful spending, not raising taxes!"
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3-Cent Solution: The Checkbook
"The United States has overspent its checkbook in the trillions of dollars."
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Recess Postcard
Greetings from where everything's coming up roses!
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#ShowUsYourCuts
"The only way to tackle our deficit is to cut excessive spending."
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#ShowUsYourCuts
"We have already identified $2 trillion in savings."
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#ShowUsYourCuts
"What we need is spending discipline in Washington."
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#ShowUsYourCuts
"We can cut the deficit in half over the next 5 years."
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#ShowUsYourCuts
"We will pay off our national debt for the first time since 1835."
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#ShowUsYourCuts
"Should we cut the deficit more? Well, of course we should."
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#ShowUsYourCuts
"We must get the federal deficit under control."
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#ShowUsYourCuts
"We must begin with control of federal spending."
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#ShowUsYourCuts
"We can finally give the American people a balanced budget."
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#ShowUsYourCuts
"We must cut out more nonessential government spending."
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Another Term, Same Promises?
Presidents have made sweeping budget promises for decades; President Obama has an opportunity to make good on those promises with his second term. Concerned Americans want to know - will rhetoric finally match reality?
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More Presidential Budget Promises?
Inaugural speeches often make sweeping promises of a balanced budget. This year, Americans are hoping the President and the rest of Washington are going to deliver.
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Does Washington Have the Will to Follow Through?
Presidents make lots of promises on Inauguration Day. But talk is cheap, and Americans are still waiting for Washington to deliver.
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Americans Trust Oprah More Than the Federal Government to Manage Their Budget
52% of Americans polled say they would trust Oprah more than the Federal Government to manage their budget. What does that say about Washington's record?
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"We don't have a spending problem"?
Washington politicians of all stripes continue to prove that talk is cheap - but consistency and commitment are hard to come by.
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Caps Are Not Cuts!
For all of the rhetoric about a "balanced approach" to reducing the deficit, Congress' last-minute Fiscal Cliff deal contains no actual reductions in spending - merely opting to place "caps" on future increases.
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A Missed Opportunity
Alan Simpson & Erskine Bowles called the last-minute Fiscal Cliff deal approved by Congress a "missed opportunity" to make real reforms to control our deficit spending problem.
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A Failure of Leadership
The Washington Post's Robert J. Samuelson called the Fiscal Cliff fiasco a "massive failure of presidential leadership".
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The "Balanced" Approach
President Obama has repeatedly called for a "balanced" approach to reducing the deficit, but the recent Fiscal Cliff fix contains no actual spending cuts while soaking Americans with higher taxes.
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Government Spending Got Personal
Trillions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on failed efforts to reinvigorate the economy in the last four years. $12.9 trillion of new spending that includes 7.9 percent unemployment, 23 million Americans unemployed or underemployed, 46.7 million on food stamps and 1 in 6 living in poverty. Government spending got personal.
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State Snapshots
Our economy is tanking, but the national numbers don't tell the whole story. We took a look at some individual states and saw how their struggling economies helped paint a more complete picture of our economic woes.
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MAJORITY BLAME NATIONAL DEBT ON HIGH SPENDING, NOT LOW TAXES
Results show that an overwhelming majority of voters believe that the cause of the federal debt comes from government spending being too high (79%) rather than taxes being too low (15%).
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Majority Say National Debt Has Direct Impact on Their Finances
Our parent organization, Public Notice, has released a new poll today showing that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that the national debt has a direct impact upon their personal finacnes.
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Debt is the Worst Poverty
Americans have grown increasingly knowledgeable – and increasingly concerned – about the government’s recent explosion of spending and debt.
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Supperless
As more Americans face difficult choices in the job market, the federal government’s spending is headed down an unsustainable path. The national debt is quickly approaching $16 trillion, representing nearly $50,700 for every man, woman, and child in the United States.
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Tax Code
Taxes can be rough. But, are they a viable option for deficit reduction? Get the facts behind taxes for reducing the debt and deficit with our Are Taxes the Ticket products.
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Whiskey and Car Keys
In the middle of the night, policymakers finalized the details on a continuing resolution that must was passed before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.
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Promises Make Debt
Over the past three and a half years, Americans have heard plans, proposals, and promises about how Washington is going to correct the problems in our economy and stimulate growth.
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Blessed Are the Young
Recently, the national debt reached $16 trillion. Concerned? Take a look at what youthful indiscretions got us here and what not-so-sweet treats are in store if we continue.
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