Super Committee: America’s Watching
With less than a month for the super committee to identify between $1.2 and $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, Bankrupting America, a project of Public Notice, launches a billboard campaign designed to remind Congress that the nation is watching. The billboards will run simultaneously in the center of both the political and financial worlds….
I like my government spending how I like my beer: CHEAP
Planning to escape the federal budget crisis with a cool drink in a Washington, D.C. hot spot? No chance.
A state of recovery? DC edition.
In preparation for Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan’s visit today to the groundbreaking of the Gibson Plaza Apartments in DC to discuss the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka the “stimulus”) and Washington’s plan for the road ahead, below are some facts to consider.
ICYMI: new poll confirms Washington out of touch
POLITICO today reports on its newest poll, which shows Washington painfully out of touch with the rest of the nation in its view of the economy.
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Business leader says Washington is bad for business As Americans sacrifice this summer, Washington piles on debt POLL: Public Pulse BA
Snowed in and stocking up on stimulus
For most of us, reason takes a back seat when we have an emergency on our hands. This past week in our nation’s capital people rushed out to local stores and stocked up on household supplies to last through the back-to-back blizzards. Panicked shoppers cleared grocery store shelves to last the snow-pocalypse or snow-maggedon, to [...]
