A Message from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation

[Foxx1981]

Enjoy your banker overlords Americans. Now comes the price for all those decades of "America fuck yeah". I hope it felt good, because you're in for a nice ride in a harsh steel-bath to pay for that.

[desertdude1234]

What A joke. "If Sarah Palin could do it, Imagine what I could do with a 10 digit bank account."

[rgwinful]

Peter P and his Propaganda machine. This guy makes me sick to my stomach. He made his billions over the past decades, and fraternized with the right wing elite. Now he wants you to believe that he actually cares about the USA and the national debt. Just remember Peter, the first will come last, and the last will come first.

[jak11planet]

Pete P's goal is not to save Social Security, but to plunder and rape it. He is EVIL. Don't be fooled by this Wall Street snake. They play on our emotions, and do the classic match and lead, but it's all lies. When, oh when, will Americans see through the lies? Especially when the words are what we want to hear. But nothing of the same ever happens, in fact the opposite does.

[MeritisDE]

Pete Peterson also gave a billion of his own money to promote the privatization of social security.

[schratboy]

Heard Mr. Walker on NPR and was floored by his insistence upon increasing taxes. I agree with him that spending must be cut but placing more burden on the citizenry is wrong. Prosperity comes from the people and isn't granted by a government. Sorry, Mr. Wonk but your prescription is just more of the same.

[Kabayo944]

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

VOTE LIBERTARIAN!

[CommentfromSyracuse]

The speaker,David Walker, directs a foundation funded with 1 billion dollars by former hedge fund manager and Wall Street financier, Pete Peterson. Both are out of touch with millions of Americans whose lives are better for Social Security, Medicare, and Unemployment Insurance. They have been waging a relentless and one sided war against these programs for many years. They consistently fail to inform the public of how the changes they propose would affect hard-working Americans

[whahas]

That could explain the 'strange' 10,000 dollar prize.

What's your source?

I mean, if you want to lower the debt, you don't need another incentive, like a prize, to that, right?

It has to be something you really want to do and not just for the money...

A video game?

They better take some footage from Money as Debt, I guess.

I find it astounding that there is no mention of the interest on the debt.

I mean, if that wouldn't exist, there wouldn't be any deficit, right?

Fighting symptoms - again

[joeratti]

i understand what hes getting at and i agree but people need to get their mind off this american dream bullshit of buying a bunch of worthless bullshit. it used to be get a house and car with a family. now its get as much fuckin money as you can and for some reason you kids are supposed to be more rich than you were. its just stupid.

[Ron911truth]

Out of Touch: nice but out of touch and way too late in the ball game. Now its how best to prepare for the revolution and which side you are going to join.  Christians must decide if resistance or acquiescence is the correct path. May God be merciful.

[OurBraveNewWorld]

More people need to listen to Mr. Walker. jbryant, he is addressing the real cause just in a way that people can understand. When you tell someone "End the Fed" you have to approach the topic very carefully. Often the message does not get heard. When you tell someone that the obligation to pay our deficits is approaching a point where it is impossible to pay, backed with facts, now you have some traction. The way we create money is slavery, now let's change it. We need to follow Mr. Walker

[jbryant13]

When are you going to address the real cause of these problems which is the Federal Reserve's debt money system and fractional reserve lending rules ? If the US can issue a dollar "bond" it can issue a dollar "bill".

* Why does the US borrow it's own money at interest from a private banking cartel called the "Federal" Reserve?

*How much of the national debt is interest ?

*Why has the Congress abdicated it's constitutional responsibility to coin money and regulate the value ?