Looks like "The Can Kicks Back" astroturf group is getting its own ass kicked. Their belief "We're out of money!" now has to be applied to their own organization as opposed to the government that in reality can never run out of currency balances.
Revealing story at Salon here.
So when The Can Kicks Back found itself struggling to keep the lights on, it turned for support to its grass-roots network of passionate millennial activists: Not that the group hasn’t tried.
According to emails, it also took meetings or made fundraising asks of former oil and gas executive T. Boone Pickens, aerospace magnate Norman R. Augustine and First Pacific CEO Bob Rodriguez, among others, since 2012.
The group has also approached Fix the Debt for additional financial resources and brainstormed a list of donors to be set up with that included former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Blackrock CEO Larry Fink, salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, venture capitalist Reid Hoffman, eBay CEO John Donahoe and others.
Oh, weird. None of those people are millennials at all! That is sort of just a list of very wealthy people. It’s almost as if the national debt is only a major concern of people too rich to have other problems.
Ha! I think Salon is on to something here. Hat tip @DeficitHacks.
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