Zombie Debt
By LOU GAUL
The following capsule reviews, listed alphabetically, will give you an idea of the caliber of films unreeling locally. Please refer to the movie schedule for theaters and show times.
The films are graded as follows: Very Good, (A); Good, (B); Fair, (C); Poor, (D); Turkey (F). Those with (NP) have not been previewed. (To locate a Web site, go to www.google.com and type in the film
March 16th, 2008 at 11:22 am
The debt is the cumulative sum of all the deficits. We had a surplus in the yearly budget in the couple of years at the end of the Clinton presidency, but those weren’t nearly enough to offset the debt incurred under previous Presidents, particularly Reagan.
March 16th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Well, when is it right to expand the amount of money in the circulation?
March 16th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Great to see the reviews coming in. Keep up the good work. This thing is going to take off.
March 16th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Uh, excuse me. But what about the 50 TRILLION in unfunded social security and medicare obligations that isn’t even counted in that chart!
March 16th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
And population.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
This film makes me happy inside. I can’t wait until it is unleashed upon the world.
March 16th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
I have never seen a movie that has kicked so much ass this one. Finally, out on DVD! About time, dammit!
March 16th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Interesting comment: The only people to blame are the US citizen. We are probably the dumbest people, we beleive the goverment will take care of us and watch over us, they sure have screwed the American public with their spending…This isn’t so much untrue as misleading - the problem isn’t that Americans believe their government will take care of them and watch out for them - the problem is that Americans don’t notice when their government doesn’t do that.
March 16th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Either way, Reagan started it.Worst. President. Ever. (until now)
March 16th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Umm, this graph is meaningless. Adjust for inflation and graph the debt as a percentage of GDP. Then you will have something.Edit: Something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US_Public_debt_per_GDP_1791-2006.svg
March 16th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
now that the dollar is in the crapper, it’s a good time to pay it off!!
March 16th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Added to my Netflix cue the day the announcement arrived in my inbox, and I won’t even ripoff the guys and burn it. It’s a quality film worth spending my time and money on, and in these days, that says a ton.
March 16th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Heart-felt, heart-warming and great fun. Its genuineness makes you want to come alive again.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Still tells the same story. Reagan was a huge spender, Bush I kept up the pace, Clinton came in and the spending eased, then Bush II came in and turned on the spending taps again.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Good chart. % of GDP is always a much better metric, but for some reason people lap up charts like the one linked. I wonder if I could get a graph of the US Gross Domestic Product in the past 25 years onto the front page of reddit. Probably not.