Apparently the “Visualize The Debt” protests launched by a political youth group have taken hold and garnered some significant press attention.
According to the Young Americans for Liberty, they have 78 college chapters that organized demonstrations this spring. At each event, a 40-foot-long prop is displayed that spells out the current $14 trillion-plus national debt.
YAL, which grew out of the Students for Ron Paul group of 2008, claims to have 200 chapters nationwide and their wide reach is paying off. They have received press coverage from USA Today, The Washington Post, The Daily Caller and other media outlets.
“(The debt is) definitely going to change our lives, for the past generations we’ve lived on borrowed money and borrowed labor from the rest of the world and all of a sudden, we have got to pay those debts,” UC San Diego student Karen Scamman told KUSI News. “’This is going to affect us, not our parents, and I think that resonates well with college students because it’s not something that will affect them in the near future, but now.”
“We put it up (the giant ‘debt clock’) Sunday night,” student Corey Adkison of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College told the Mississippi Press, while standing in front of the clock. “The numbers are from (earlier), so it is actually $8 billion to $9 billion higher. I think it goes up by $8 billion every five days.”
