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Bankrupting America
Infographic of the Week: Spending Superheroes
Public Notice recently released an infographic featuring the Congressional Super Committee – and they’ve never looked so good. [Bankrupting America] What if there was a group of lawmakers whose sole mission was to scrutinize our spending and find at least $1.2 trillion in cuts in a sweeping effort to control …
Congressional Baseball Card Humor
The LA Dodgers were the punchline of quite a few ESPY jokes last night and will be the butt of the joke tonight at the Roll Call Congressional Baseball game. Bankrupting America, a project of Public Notice, is running ads on the back of the player baseball cards. The copy …
Not the Onion: Your Tax Dollars Spent Training Prostitutes to Drink Responsibly
Just when you think that the wastefulness of the U.S. government couldn’t get any worse, according to this video, the US spent $2.6 million training American Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly.
Your Future is Full of Wasted Money and Terrible Ideas
In an effort to spend taxpayer money wisely, the U.S. Government has taken to fortune cookie writing [and predicting the future]. As part of a $320 million media campaign, the Census Bureau has included messages in 2 million fortune cookies encouraging participation in the 2010 Census. The cookies are being …