Waking Up The "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour"

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009031112/waking-fiscal-wake-tour

Social Security and Medicare opponent Pete Peterson funds through his foundation a "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour," which characterizes itself as a non-ideological truth-telling presentation bravely warning the nation that Social Security and Medicare need drastic changes to save our children from crushing debt. But the "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour" actually is the worst kind of ideological exercise, one that blindly follows a political position regardless of the facts.

Watch OurFuture.org's Bill Scher confront the panel. For more background, check out the blog post "Waking Up The 'Fiscal Wake-Up' Tour" at http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009031112/waking-fiscal-wake-tour

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• debt
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• social security
• medicare
• health care
• entitlements

[kaodjs1]

Does anyone else secretly suspect that David Walker is the product of a Republican eugenics effort involving Monty Burns and Cruella De Vil?

[sirfith]

I love how Bill started by portraying himself as an independent citing being a Ross Perot supporter back in the 90s

Also love the appeal to authority citing William Greider(sp?) and Paul Krugman.

As for Krugman's predictive powers.

Google Memo to Krugman 1982

After a drop in inflation under Pres. Reagan, Krugman predict inflation would return to double digits,