Director : Patrick Creadon
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Genre : Documentary
Cast : (Credited cast) , Robert Bixby as Himself, Humphrey Bogart as Himself (archive footage), Warren Buffett as Himself, George Bush as Himself (archive footage), George W. Bush as Himself (archive footage), Jimmy Carter as Himself (archive footage), Bill Clinton as Himself (archive footage), Stephen Colbert as Himself (archive footage), Kent Conrad as Himself (as Sen. Kent Conrad), Ander Crenshaw as Himself (as Rep. Ander Crenshaw), Bing Crosby as Himself (archive footage), Douglas Durst as Himself, Dwight D. Eisenhower as Himself (archive footage), Gerald Ford as Himself (archive footage), Alan Greenspan as Himself, Judd Gregg as Himself (as Sen. Judd Gregg), Yoni Gruskin as Himself, Kay Harms as Herself, Sue Herrera as Herself (archive footage), Chrissy Hovde as Herself, John F. Kennedy as Himself (archive footage), Steve Kroft as Himself (archive footage), George Miller as Himself (as Rep. George Miller), Richard Nixon as Himself (archive footage), Paul O’Neill as Himself, Chris Parnell as Budget Book Author (archive footage), Ron Paul as Himself (as Rep. Ron Paul), Peter G. Peterson as Himself (archive footage), Ronald Reagan as Himself (archive footage), Diane Rehm as Herself, Franklin Delano Roosevelt as Himself (archive footage), Robert Rubin as Himself, Donald Rumsfeld as Himself (archive footage), Tim Russert as Himself (archive footage), Scott Spradling as Himself, Mike Tully as Himself, David M. Walker as Himself, Brian Williams as Himself (archive footage)
Plot : Few are aware that America might troth on the snapping point of a economic meltdown. I.O.U.S.A. explores the country’s disgusting power financial muscular disease in addition to idiosyncrasies to keep elsewhere from a centralized fiscal disaster.
Run Time : 85 min
Country : USA
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Language : English | Mandarin
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Company : O’Malley Creadon Productions
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Tag Lines : One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt.
Plot Summary : I.O.U.S.A. examines the promptly sprouting centralized debt with its consequences since the United States with its citizens. As the Baby Boomer life span prepares to retire, will there also troth any Social Security benefits departed to collect? Burdened along furthermore an ever-expanding government with military, increased international competition, overextended entitlement programs, with debts to alien nation-states that are becoming impracticable to honor, America must heal its spendthrift plans or countenance an monetary misfortune of epic proportions. Throughout history, the American government has thought of it almost impracticable to use merely what on earth has been raised done taxes. The motion picture brewes polls along furthermore both typical American taxpayers with government officials to demystify the nation’s monetary habits with policies. The motion picture follows U.S. Comptroller General David Walker because he crisscrosses the nation-state expressing inside words America’s unsustainable monetary paths to its citizens. The motion picture interweaves archival footage with monetary track record to furbish a profile of America’s voltage monetary situation. The motion picture additionally proffers likelihood monetary scenarios with direct report almost about how to remake a fiscally trusty realm since making progress generations.
In February 2007, the United States centralized debt stood at $8.7 trillion, to a higher degree twining way over the long period of time of <a href=”/name/nm0124133/”>George W. Bush</a>’s presidency. The bad way will solitary aggravate way over duration along furthermore identified in the pipeline spending such since costs of social sanctuary to the kid boom generation. The issues? The United States has suffered a past of consumption, spending to a higher degree it has available, specifically at several steer of attempt years, various noticeably at several steer of World War II furthermore the Iraq contradiction of the 21st century. There is as well a past of non saving, both by the government furthermore by masses which leads to lack of investment moneys. And inside the current global economy, the United States has the highest business deficit inside the world, reliant on assorted countries, specifically China which holds to a higher degree half of the United States’ store bonds. Overriding these elements is a lack of radical leadership, politicians who genuinely don’t seem to acumen to search out the nation-state out of this economic hole.
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