Following the money.....

Some of you may have seen an ad on TV with a group of children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance...or a rather corrupted version of it. It's an ad for defeatthedebt.com. At the very end, a girl says "Debt stinks!", accompanied with a note that the commercial was paid for by the Employment Policies Institute.

Who are these people? Advocates of the Fair Tax? A group of Tea Party people? Being the curious sort that I am, I Googled on Employment Policies Institute, and one of the hits pointed to this article on sourcewatch.org. The group appears to be yet another front group for DC lobbyist Rick Berman. According to Berman's article on sourcewatch.org, Berman is "a former labor management attorney and restaurant industry executive who currently works as a lobbyist for the food, alcoholic beverage and tobacco industries."

I also note that these ads conveniently appeared in the past few months, well into President Obama's administration. Harely anyone mentioned the debt during George W. Bush's administration, and those who did were casually dismissed.

Yes, I'd love to see this country get out of debt. But if our government wants us to be free of debt, it should be setting a better example.