Monday, March 05, 2012

I.O.U.S.A. film Debunked

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/iousa-failed-scare-flick_b_147650.html

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/issues/iousanotok

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/effort-to-gut-ss-medicare-takes-a-hit

http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/IOUSA_viewer_guide_2008_10.pdf

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/santa-claus-the-tooth-fairy-and-the-bowles-simpson-commission-report

gretchenart
Fine Art Technology
09:54 PM on 10/22/2008
My radar went up as soon as I saw that several very right wing "think tanks" sponsored this film. It was an indictment of the American people, protection of military might, spend and waste and a scathing critique of Medicare and Social Security, claiming that eliminating the Iraq war only takes care of 2% or less of the deficit, while Medicare and other Social spending plus American's own personal deficit spending are at the root of our fiscal "recklessness". I had originally seen the film thinking it was an honest look at how we got into this fiscal mess we are in and it was so far from that and so much propaganda of rightwing talking points that I left the theater in disgust, though I made it to the end of the film.
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vippy
Carpe Diem!
11:02 AM on 10/23/2008
Of course, nothing for the people and everything for them and more war, where they can get
richer off the backs of the poor. Makes sense to me!
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