On April 1st, 2011,Young Americans for Liberty at Louisiana State University held our version of the Visualize the Debt event. Louisiana State Director Kyle Aycock and I spent a lot of time planning for the event, and our members worked with us overtime to make those plans a reality.
Louisiana State University, like many universities, isn't too great on free speech for students. However, our "free speech zone," known as "Free Speech Alley," is at least in front of the impressive LSU Student Union. This is a major thoroughfare for students walking to lunch and classes. It also contains our brand new Union Theatre, which would be a great location to host a certain Republican congressman one day (and yes, I know I'm shameless). Anyway, we were given "the circle," which is the main and largest part of Free Speech Alley. However, it isn't large enough for a 40 foot debt clock, so we had to brainstorm for another idea to visualize the debt.
We elected to buy the suggested 4'x8' pieces of wood, and use power tools to cut holes where students could put their faces to pose with a thermometor of the national debt. The characters we chose to design were a woman from the 1950's and hipster uncle sam.
Main display boards at the event:
We also printed out 14 sheets of paper to visualize the number $14,000,000,000,000, which looked impressive on the ground in front of our table.
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