i.o.u.s.a.

i.o.u.s.a.
by Patrick Creadon

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Actor: Bob Bixby (Concord Coalition), David Walker (Peter G. Peterson Foundation)
Director: Patrick Creadon
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-04-07
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: PBS (DIRECT)

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Movie Review: What we are Screwed Financial NO way.
Summary: 5 Stars

I.O.U.S.A. is a documentary that is a Must See for All Americans and for Everybody that live in the United States of America. The Citizens, Permanent Residents and the Government of America MUST FIX our Gross Domestic Product a.k.a. GDP. Everybody in the United States of America including the U.S.A.'s Government need to work together to fix our four Deficits which are: (1)Budget, (2)Savings, (3)Trade and (4)Leadership. The way that the economy is going in the U.S.A. it made me think of the Holy Bible's verses in Revelation 18:17 & 18 which says: For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! The U.S.A.'s Recession and Stagflation made me have to say may the Lord Jesus Christ the Nazarene help the U.S.A.! I hope that those Holy Bible's verses are not the U.S.A. but can it be the U.S.A.? Everybody in the U.S.A. let us NOT be Cruel to be Kind in the right measure!!

Summary of i.o.u.s.a.

America is on the brink of a financial meltdown. I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States. Burdened with an ever-expanding government and military, increased international competition, overextended entitlement programs, and debts to foreign countries that are becoming impossible to honor, America must mend its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportions.

Over 125 minutes of bonus materials, including exclusive interviews with Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan and others.
As the average American can attest, personal debt is bad enough, but as Thomas Jefferson once cautioned, public debt is "corruptive of the government" and "demoralizing of the nation." Patrick Creadon's I.O.U.S.A. documents the efforts of two concerned citizens, former US Comptroller General Dave Walker and Concord Coalition Director Robert Bixby, to explain how America racked up over $9.5 trillion in debt and what we can do to stem the tide. Based on the book Empire of Debt by William Bonner and Executive Producer Addison Wiggin, Wordplay's Creadon combines Walker and Bixby's "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour" with observations from former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, former Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Paul O'Neill, superstar CEO Warren Buffett, and student activists. The information flows with ease and the clips from Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show add levity to an undeniably dark and timely topic, but the narrative rests on a long list of facts and figures, leading to a production that feels more like a special news report than a work of cinema. Unlike Alex Gibney's Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, on which co-writer/producer Christine O'Malley (Creadon's wife) assisted, character development takes a backseat to data. Arguably, the director lacks an outsized personality, like Enron's Kenneth Lay, around which to assemble his argument, but the subject calls for more of a human face to have the desired effect, i.e. to encourage beleaguered taxpayers to care enough to rise up off their easychairs and agitate for greater fiscal responsibility. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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