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National Debt Forum Transcript
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010American Freedom and Enterprise Foundation Partners with Heritage Foundation for Online Forum on the Growing Federal Debt
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Media Advisory
Contact: Katie Smith 314.625.5107
Tax Day is quickly approaching and Americans are sending their hard earned money to Washington in the form of a federal income tax. While American families are tightening their belts and making tough choices about their budgets, leaders in Washington are spending beyond their means. This reckless spending is putting our government in peril and it has real impacts on the economy. Renowned budget expert, Brian Riedl, The Heritage Foundation’s lead budget analyst will join former Sen. Jim Talent and Ambassador Ann Wagner for an online town hall to discuss federal spending. Riedl is a well-known policy expert and has built a solid reputation for interpreting, explaining and reforming the often arcane realm of federal budget policy and its impacts.
Who: Brian Riedl, Budget Expert with the Heritage Foundation; Former Sen. Jim Talent; Ambassador Ann Wagner
What: Online Town Hall on the Growing Federal Debt
When: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 11:00 CDT
Where: www.FreedomSolutions.Org
Pictures from 33 Minutes Screening
Monday, March 1st, 2010We had a wonderful crowd at the 33 Minutes screening on Saturday. Thanks to everyone who attended, especially those who didn’t get a seat.
Ambassador Wagner discusses the international implications of missile defense.
Sen. Jim Talent talks with Missourians after the 33 MInutes Screening
Stimulus Bill:Take III?
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010The federal government is considering another “stimulus” plan, by which they mean that they will try to get the economy moving through more government spending. I want to ask a good faith question. What would have to happen for the advocates of such a policy to conclude that it doesn’t work?
The government has passed two stimulus plans already. Yet the recession lasted twice as long as the average postwar recession, and – what is worse – the recovery looks and feels an awful lot like the recession. (If this is what prosperity is like, what will the unemployment rate be if we have another downturn?). Let’s suppose that they pass more government spending, and unemployment stays the same. Will they then concede that government spending doesn’t generate economic growth? What if unemployment actually goes up?
One other point. Will this new “stimulus” plan have any money for defense modernization? The last one didn’t. Consider this. If there is an historical example of government spending stimulating the economy, it’s when the government, after TEN YEARS of the Depression, geared up for World War II beginning in 1940. Yet the last “stimulus” package of $800 billion didn’t spend a dime on defense modernization or the defense industrial base.
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