In Debt We Trust: How Did We Get Into This Mess?

[playboysinistro]

Fight consumption by purchasing this DVD, credit cards accepted

[jebenn23]

If America doesnt stop fighting wars we have no business fighting, bring health care costs down, and reform social security we're screwed.

[abmmwl]

The American dream is too expensive. When the paycheck comes after taxes and 401k, it sounds like a lot of money. Then the expenses like mortgage, car payment, utilities, insurance, food/drink for family, clothing, etc. eat up the paycheck and not much is left.

[oHelmslyo]

Dammit, I accidentally clicked the one star rating! I didn't mean that!!!!!

[dhansen888]

This is video is a perfect example of where fiscal conservatives and raving liberals can find common ground. We are in agreement that we have created an economy that requires constant consumption in order to fuel it (thus requiring cheap labor and easy credit).

As a fiscal conservative I could not agree more with the basic premise - of course, I take a look at MEF's board (with people like Dyson on it) and realize that MEF's proposed solutions to this problem would probably be horrific.

[orbray09]

The entire of America is all FAKE! What a miserable life stle!

[RonPaulGeorgeRingo]

Out of control BORROW & spend goes back decades. The current leverage crisis is just the LATEST example - the straw that FINALLY BROKE the camel's back. Don't forget, MANY WARNED about the DANGEROUS LONG TERM consequences back in the 80's, when Reagan took this CREDIT CARD approach to governing, injected it with steroids, & essentially made it PSEUDO conservative dogma, the NATIONAL RELIGION!

Ron Paul was RIGHT - in 1988, & in 2008. His LOST party (& country) ignored him. Shame.

[narfer121]

Get off your Ipod,burn your cell phone,never go to the mall or the "big stores".Save your rain water, grow gardens,use the saved water to water it. Turn your lights off when not needed, "hyper mile" your cars, proper air pressure, make a Hydrogen kit for your car.

There are millions of things you can do to combat the cost of money....

[waverly2468]

Read "Generation Debt" by Anya Kamenetz. The problem with $8 trillion national debt (it may jump to $11 trillion because of the money wasted on the Iraq War) is that your children's taxes will be used to pay off that debt (much of it to foreign creditors) instead of health care, education, fixing our roads and bridges, etc. etc. If that's what the war on terror is all about then I think that our side lost.

[jackiechan511]

Lassez-faire (French meaning: hands off) is responsible for this. The trickle down theory is a scam.

[Herodotus2008]

don't spend as much, and what a horrible economic misrepresentation of the national debt--the biggest share is owned by the U.S. gov gor god's sake

[gopconservative94]

Democrats love to tax and spend...they caused it

[aerochick42]

then explain to me how 70% of our nation's debt was incurred under three REPUBLICAN presidents (reagan, bush sr., and bush jr.). in the past 8 years we've gone from a 5 trillion dollar surplus to a 5 trillion dollar deficit.

republican fiscal conservatism is a myth

[babybunnyberry]

And I guess this is why America is exporting this all over the world...

[spanishaustralian]

RON PAUL is the only one adressing this. its the federal reserve thats causing the switch from production to consumption. it needs to be abolished or else we are head for the massive colaps. worse than any other depression in the past.

[mykalwhite1]

I have a solution: vote for the only candidate who mentions the Bretton Woods system. Ron Paul said "Before the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system, CEO income was about 30 times the average worker's pay. Today, it's closer to 500 times. It's hard to explain this simply by market forces and increases in productivity. One Wall Street firm last year gave out bonuses totaling $16.5 billion. There's little evidence that this represents free market capitalism." VOTE RON PAUL

[Amiduffer]

Its not too bad. Too bad they forgot to mention the post Bretton Woods shift into globalization in 73. Plus, no solutions presented.

[BeatBuddy]

Make sure we don't impeach old criminals so we can replace them with new ones.