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Madam Mossfern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-10 10:46 PM
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What is BankruptingAmerica.org?
I just saw a commercial for the site and decided to investigate.
Is it a Tea Party thing?
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Proud Liberal Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-10 10:49 PM
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1. Almost without a doubt
I heard a radio ad in my car the other day on AM radio. It made me want to puke. I'm tempted to check out the website but I don't want to :puke: all over my monitor and/or keyboard.
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Yeshuah Ben Joseph Donating Member (763 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-10 10:57 PM
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2. "Bankrupting America is a project of Public Notice, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization ..."
"....100 percent focused on arming people with the economic facts and figures needed to evaluate the policies our leaders are proposing."

(that description is taken directly from their website)

And their parent company "Public Notice" refers to itself as "...an independent non-profit dedicated to providing facts and insight on the economy and how government policy affects Americans’ financial well-being."

Only one person is named on the Public Notice website:

Gretchen Hamel is the Executive Director of Public Notice, where she leads a team of communications experts in their effort to provide clear, straightforward information on fiscal and economic issues to Americans outside the Beltway. The team’s first campaign, Bankrupting America, has gained significant attention from the media outlets to which citizens often pay the most attention: local television and radio, and state media. Public Notice has been recognized by national media outlets such as The Washington Post, Fiscal Times, and CNBC.

Hamel’s Public Notice opinion pieces have appeared in publications including U.S. News & World Report, Pennsylvania Business Journal, and the Colorado Gazette. Hamel has been featured on CNBC’s “The Kudlow Report,” as well as radio shows including nationally syndicated programs such as The Leslie Marshall Show, The Lars Larson Show, and G. Gordon Liddy.


I think that last sentence pretty much spells out how "nonpartisan" she and her group actually are ;)
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-10 11:01 PM
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3. If you are posting here
it must be the Second Coming .........

How much time do we have left??
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Yeshuah Ben Joseph Donating Member (763 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-10 11:08 PM
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4. I cannot answer that.
Because only My Dad knows the day and the hour, etc.

And if I say "soon" again, you'll just say "Yeah, that's what you said 2000 years ago".

I will say this though..... if the Teabaggers take over this country, it will probably be sooner, rather than later. :(
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-10 11:13 PM
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5. I do agree with your last sentence
Good talking to you, Son of God
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