President Chet Roosevelt (Ritter) hires television consultant Eric McMerkin (Riegert) to help produce a national raffle. Instead, they decide that the only way enough money can be raised to save America is to run a telethon, and hire TV celebrity Monty Rushmore (Korman) to host it.
Choice implies options.
There are no options remaining.
Think reckoning.
I don’t think there’s any short term about any of this. I have a feeling we (us and the next generation and maybe more) are screwed—just a matter of when we face up to it and how much we keep digging the hole. I don’t see how it ends pretty.