Renting a car from Budget starts at only $17 for a weekend day! And yet I’m still scratching my head as to what the company spent on these new commercials advertising this sweet deal starring Jessica Simpson.
Some think that being poor is simple. You don’t have enough money to buy a lot of stuff, so you’re forced to buy less stuff. But that’s not really how it works. When you’re broke, you can’t do all the little things that will improve your budget over the long run. It actually costs more to be poor.
Senator-elect Tammy Baldwin was among the most progressive members of the US House of Representatives during her tenure as a Wisconsin Congresswoman. Wisconsin's senior Senator Ron Johnson is a Tea Party idiot. But so far, everything is hunky dory! Baldwin is confident that the two can work together in Washington, and…
Now that Mitt Romney has nominated Wisconsin Republican Congressman/deficit hawk/ grown up Eddie Munster Paul Ryan to be his running mate as the two ride their gilded golf carts and sail boats and other rich people means of conveyance toward the White House, pundits hope the campaign will Get Serious. Ryan's a numbers…
There's no money for frivolities like education and public health when we have expensive explodable toys to think about. At least, that's the ethos behind House Republicans' newly proposed budget, which would eliminate funding for National Public Radio, PBS, Planned Parenthood, Americorps, and kittens. At this rate,…
This morning, an amendment proposed by Minnesota Representative Betty McCollum and one of her Republican colleagues, Jack Kingston of Georgia, passed through the House Appropriations Committee. The proposal aimed to cut $80 million from the federal government's budget by barring the Department of Defense from spending…
A new wave of Republican lawmakers barged into office after the 2010 elections on promises of fiscal responsibility and a reigning in of government spending. Jobs. The economy. Econo-jobs. While everyone was Tea Partying their pants off and puking star spangled vomit into the potted plants, eager for the tax breaks…
You know how every time a Republican politician says or does something mindblowingly stupid or offensive, we shake our heads and think it can't possibly get any worse? Well, of course, we're always wrong. GOP legislators seem to have a supernatural ability to constantly come up with new and shittier things to say.…
Now that the Twilight Wedding of the Century is out in theaters and we have fed ourselves on its succulent romantic juices, we can get down to doing what you do after any good wedding: gossiping about how much it cost! Luckily, the folks at Centives have done the hard work for us, and the grand total for the whole…
The federal dealmaking forbidding DC Medicaid from using its own money for abortions went into effect yesterday, but thanks to the DC Abortion Fund, 28 Medicaid-qualifying women were able to keep their appointments for termination. Still, that's just day one.
Yesterday, the Senate rejected the House's budget bill, which includes defunding Planned Parenthood. That doesn't mean it's off the table; now the negotiations begin.
The symbolic but dick move was expected and will likely be killed in the Democrat-led Senate and/or repealed by our Democratic President.
Last week, I asked readers for advice on how to start working out without throwing a ton of coin at an expensive gym membership, and did you ever come through.
It turns out that Meghan McCain and Barack Obama have something in common today: they both think that the Republican focus on abstinence-only education is completely idiotic.
The Budget Fashionista may shamelessly plug a coat from Shopbop right next to Shopbop's advertisement, but we do love the way she breaks down the emotional event of choosing a high-ticket piece of clothing into dollars and cents. With $1000 jeans and five figure handbags, it's helpful to use her little calculator to…
