[Nuc1]

So true. Merry Christmas and the Happiest of New Years!

[Paul Ross]

Thirty-four prominent current or former government officials – including former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, seven former directors of the White House Office of Management and Budget and seven former directors of the Congressional Budget Office – issued a dire report warning the United States faced ruin if the national debt didn’t stop ballooning. Longtime Washington Post columnist David Broder likened the report to “shock treatment.”

Uh, seems like this went rather unreported in the MSM...

[Windflier]

"Thirty-four prominent current or former government officials – including former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, seven former directors of the White House Office of Management and Budget and seven former directors of the Congressional Budget Office – issued a dire report warning the United States faced ruin if the national debt didn’t stop ballooning. Longtime Washington Post columnist David Broder likened the report to “shock treatment.”"

Wow. That should have been front page news, and led the evening newscasts. I don't recall seeing a word about that report anywhere.

Just unbelievable, that our press has sunk to the depths that it has. They've abdicated their responsibility to inform the public and have now become utterly irrelevant, as a result. If it weren't for the internet, this type of information would never see the light of day.

[anglian]

“Debt Threatens to Take Nation Down” A whopping! 256 Gazoogle hits. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=Debt+Threatens+to+Take+Nation+Down&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=off

[anglian]

The Peterson-Pew Commission has just released its first report, Red Ink Rising: A Call to Action to Stem the Mounting Federal Debt, where it calls on policy makers to stabilize the national debt through a six-step plan. Red Ink Rising is the first of two major reports to be released by the commission. http://budgetreform.org/