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...likely see such huge numbers leading the networks' evening newscasts because deficit talk is akin to Washington wonk speak. But Dave Walker, former Comptroller General of the U.S. and now President of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, is out to change that and bring the big picture of deficit woe to America's attention...
...kinds of warning indicators going off, and people are asleep,"said Walker, said, Walker, whose New York think tank seeks to promote awareness about the debt problem. (Walker stars in the August-released feature documentary, I.O.U.S.A., which focuses on the nation's credit binge...
...even the current deficit, as big as it is, that causes so much concern, says Walker. The deficit merely represents the amount that government spending exceeds its revenues in a given year. A far bigger concern is the national debt - the total of what we've cumulatively borrowed to finance those yearly deficits. Sometime around 2020, according to projections offered by Walker's foundation, the U.S. debt will be equal to or greater than annual gross domestic product - a situation not seen since 1946 at the end of World War II. Worsening the picture is the fact that much...
...Despite Walker's best efforts, voter resistance to deficit spending may be on the wane. "We're going to see an evaporation of concern about fiscal restraint simply because the threat of an economic collapse is so great," said Robert Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute. "Policymakers are not going to adhere to the restraint that they know in their heads we need but in their hearts can't bring about...
...lesbian MIT graduate student who attended the meeting out of personal and academic interest. “There are complaints everywhere, even in such a safe community as Cambridge.” The meeting opened with remarks from Mayor E. Denise Simmons and her chief of staff, Jeff Walker. Simmons is the nation’s first black lesbian female mayor. Former Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, who attended last night’s meeting, is also the first openly gay black mayor in the country. Both Simmons and Walker praised Cambridge as one of the most...