As if every poll doesn’t already say the economy and jobs are the overwhelming priority of voters in this election, an organization called “Bankrupting America” will be littering the Battlegrounds with reminders that Washington is spending this country into ruin. Which candidate do you think benefits from that message?
Bankrupting America has a message for the presidential candidates: “Stop digging” into the nation’s pocketbook. It’s a message highlighting the national debt that Bankrupt America, an educational project of Public Notice, will get out to the public via 48 billboards across 10 different states, including two in Colorado. “Americans know that debt comes from spending too much. Our message to Washington is simple: our nation is in a $16 trillion hole, and it’s time to stop digging,” Gretchen Hamel, executive director of Public Notice, said in a release.
Coloradans won’t see the billboards — one in Denver and one in Colorado Springs — until Friday, if all goes as planned. They will remain in place through Sept. 30. The other states, many key battleground states, with billboards include: Ohio, Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, Iowa, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma.
Here’s a look at the [two] designs that Public Notice says aim to “convey the severity of our financial crisis.”
The campaign says it’s not rooting for one political party or the other in light of the upcoming presidential election. Instead, it just wants the national debt to be part of the conversation leading up to Nov. 6. “Our goal is to shed light on the reckless and wasteful spending going on in Washington and the dangerous consequences if we continue at the rate we’ve seen in the last few years,” Hamel said.
As President Barack Obama winds up his two-day campaign trail in Colorado, political talk is high in the battleground state. Both Obama and Mitt Romney have addressed the economy, both with different plans. Obama says he would cut taxes for the middle class, and raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans. While Romney says he would lower tax rates for all and broaden the tax base.
