With Democratic leaders pledging to start the 110th Congress by focusing on the U.S. budget deficit — reinstating "pay-as-you-go” budget rules — a fiscal show-and-tell juggernaut continues to weave across the country with the dire message: "We need to change course sooner rather than later.”Don't expect Congress to do much on this subject in the next two years.
The "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour,” jointly produced by the Government Accounting Office, the Heritage Foundation, the Brookings Institute, and the Concord Coalition is a series of public forums designed to focus attention on the nation’s scary long-term fiscal challenges.
Monday, November 27, 2006
The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour Crosses the U.S.
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