Attended in Beaverton, OR -was sold out...
Movie was a B, B+..
felt it did a reasonably good job to simplify a complex issue..broke it down in 4 segments, with lack of leadership an important one...in the case of the audience I was in it may have been a lot of preaching to the choir...
panel old, stodgy, white men, should have been more diverse to connect to rest of America....
Buffet did soft pedal, Walker did speak up when Buffet suggested a growing economy would solve some of the problem. Walker correcting him by saying all the numbers reflected a growing GDP...Petersen at one point referred to Buffet as Warren Rudman.
In a lot of minds at the end were 2 old issues which had been packaged, discussed, compaigned on, chewed up and spit out in old elections, balanced budget amendment and term limits amendment. I think it was guy from Senior group who suggested that what needed to be done should be packaged as an issue and brought to the public......
One interesting historical item brought up was the Suez incident in 1955 where US (Eisenhauer) threatened to dump British debt if they didn't leave canal...the debt had become leverage in an international incident...something to think about...the movie brought out that when Britain backed down, they at that point ceased to be a world power...
in thinking back, don't know if the $50T really sunk in..... |
