Added: Jan 11, 2012
From: Dartmouth
Duration: 89:10
America is at a critical crossroads. The choices that U.S. elected officials make in connection with the role of government and its finances over the next 5 years will largely determine whether America's collective future will be better than its past. What are America's fiscal facts? What are sensible solutions to America's fiscal challenges? How will these solutions work to make America stay great? How can the American Dream stay alive for today's families and future generations of Americans? Presidential candidates have been invited. David Walker is the Founder, President, and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative (CAI), where he leads CAI's efforts to promote fiscal responsibility and sustainability by engaging the public and assisting key policymakers on a nonpartisan basis to help achieve solutions to America's federal, state, and local fiscal imbalances. Previously, he served as the first President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Walker served as the seventh U.S. Comptroller General and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (1998-2008). This was one of Walker's three presidential appointments, each by different Presidents during his 15 years of total federal service. He also has more than 20 years of private sector experience, including as a Partner and Global Managing Director of Human Capital Services for Arthur Andersen LLP. He has authored three books, with the latest one entitled Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility (2010). He is a frequent writer and media commentator, and is a subject of the critically acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A.
Channel: Education
Rating: 4.7894735' max='5' min='1' numRaters='19' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#overall ( ratings) Views: 2206 Comments: 7
SUPERMARKYSHARKY Says:
Mar 8, 2012 - FUCK KONY. BUT....... VISIBLE CHILDREN GOOGLE IT. LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT INVISIBLE CHILDREN AND THEIR OWN CORRUPTION.
rupertmja1 Says:
Mar 24, 2012 - Smart man. People need to listen.
2blikeHim Says:
Apr 1, 2012 - Love this guy. What I like is that Walker not only identifies the problem but offers solutions. Very little of what he suggests is 'politically expedient' - that's the scary part.
jscottupton Says:
Apr 27, 2012 - He makes some good points BUT he is NOT a small government guy. He is wrong on that point. Government needs to be DRASTICALLY cut.
jbray241 Says:
Apr 28, 2012 - I swear America seems to ALWAYS be at a crossroads. Politicians have been saying America is at a "Critical Point" since it was founded. I hope people can realize that the time were in now really isn't that much different than the majority of the past 250 years. Does this mean we should drop all of our concerns about politics? No, but please stop buying into this "America is inches away from failure/victory" BS that politicians feed you.
theroilsoil Says:
May 10, 2012 - Keep sipping the lemming-aide my friend . . . . these times are much, much different, much worse than the first great depression. However, continue being blind and indifferent, it's what most people in this country choose to do best . . . . until the problems come home to their own families.
. . . . . . . because these video appear directly from youtube.com which we cannot control it.)
clairbearina Says:
Feb 18, 2012 - Very informative and seemed to be impartial.