America's Budget Crisis Commonwealth Club - San Francisco, CA America's Budget Crisis with discussants: David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the U.S.; Isabel V. Sawhill, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution; Alison Acosta Fraser, Director, Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation; Robert L. Bixby, Executive Director, the Concord Coalition; Tom Campbell (moderator), Dean, Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley.Can the United States still make tradeoffs between spending on entitlements, wars and infrastructure, or is our fiscal house out of control? The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour is a public engagement initiative addressing the problems of the nation's fiscal policy. Panelists with diverse perspectives discuss why our current fiscal policy is unsustainable and what we can do to change it - The Commonwealth Club of California
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper was interrupted by a protester as he discussed how Tories already have a fiscal plan in place to combat economic uncertainty.
America's Budget Crisis Commonwealth Club - San Francisco, CA America's Budget Crisis with discussants: David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the U.S.; Isabel V. Sawhill, Senior Fellow, Economic...
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