TEN TRILLION AND COUNTING
Frontline
DVD
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Offers a hard look at the national debt.
The financial morass that confronted President Barack Obama as of his inauguration—a $10.6 trillion national debt, along with projected deficits for years—earns a hard look by experts and luminaries in both the public and private sectors, united by the viewpoint that the U.S. is running its finances on an unsustainable course. Host Forrest Sawyer examines how the previous administration greatly accelerated the pace of borrowing (spending the budget surplus, massive spending without complementary cuts, and cutting taxes during wartime), as well as potential outcomes of and possible solutions to the problem.
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Copyright | 2009 |
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Publisher | PBS |
Grade | 9 and up |
Color | Color |
Run Time | 55 minutes |