Fiscal Wake-Up Tour

Selected Media

• "National debt makes U.S. vulnerable, experts say," By John Schmid (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
• "A $53 trillion problem," Editorial (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
• "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour visits Milwaukee to warn of rising debt," By John Schmid (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
• "At Issue With Ben Merens" on Wisconsin Public Radio (Audio)

• "Coalition calls for financial planning," By Liz Flaisig (Florida Times-Union)
• "A Call To Wake Up America," Editorial (The Ledger)
• "Top Economists Warn Things Must Change," By Max Marbut (Jacksonville Financial News & Daily Record)
• "Entitlement Crisis: Storm is brewing," By The Times-Union (Florida Times-Union)
• "Constitutional Convention: End the paralysis," By The Times-Union (Florida Times-Union)

• "Federal budget high wire act," By Robert L. Bixby (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• Hard Times: You Owe $31,000 (Video)" KTVI Fox News in St. Louis
• The Jaco Report (KTVI FOX) featuring Robert Bixby and David Walker

• "Sounding the alarm," By Tim Grant (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• "U.S. is courting fiscal meltdown, panel says," By Thomas Olson (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
• "Panel: national debt on college set," By Brian Honigman (The Pitt News)
• "Entitlement crisis not top priority for candidates," By John Markowitz (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
• "Coming crunch: A bipartisan group makes a call for fiscal action," Editorial (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

• "A fiscal wake-up for the nation," Editorial (San Francisco Chronicle)
• "Everyman's mortgage crisis," By Debra J. Saunders (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Watch the Fresno Event

• "A fiscal wake-up for the nation," Editorial (San Francisco Chronicle)
• "Everyman's mortgage crisis," By Debra J. Saunders (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Watch this event

• "U.S. Needs To Get Finances In Order," By Patricia Simms (Wisconsin State Journal)
• "Nation needs fiscal wake-up, experts say," By Carolyn Potts (The Badger Herald)
• "Wake-Up Tour here warns of deep fiscal hole," By Samara Kalk Derby (The Capital Times)
• "National fiscal tour reveals country's financial burdens," By Stephanie Dar (The Daily Cardinal)
• "Wake from the financial slumber," Editorial (Wisconsin State Journal)
• "Iraq war is strangling our economy," By Dave Zweifel (The Capital Times)

• "U.S. in fiscal mess, tour coming to CGCC warns," By Marybeth Mason (The Arizona Republic)
• "Federal official warns of economic peril," By Edythe Jensen (The Arizona Republic)
• "GAO chief works to defuse debt time bomb," By Russ Wiles (The Arizona Republic)

• "Comptroller warns of budget peril," By Steve Liner (Tallahassee Democrat)
• Photo Gallery
• "A wake-up call for Florida," By U.S. Congressman Allen Boyd (Tallahassee Democrat)

• Video
• "Off the Record" on WKAR featuring Special Guest David Walker

• "Experts Warn of Looming Fiscal Crisis," By Dick Hogan (The Gazette)

• Read Jay Hancock's (Baltimore Sun) blog
• Listen to NPR's "All Things Considered" segment on the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour at UMBC
• Watch the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour
• Watch the panelists sit down with UMBC graduate students

• "Bipartisan group campaigns for federal spending reform," By Walter Jones (Savannah Morning News)
• "Record Crown Turns Out for Fiscal Wake-Up Tour," J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
• Watch the presentations (Requires QuickTime)
     -Robert Bixby, The Concord Coalition
     -David Walker, U.S. Comptroller General
     -Paul Cullinan, The Brookings Institution
     -Alison Fraser, The Heritage Foundation
     -"Q&A" Session
• "Obama to make stop in Aiken," By Kirsten Singleton (Augusta Chronicle)

• "U.S. comptroller touts panel to reform spending," By Benjamin Keeple (Union Leader)
• "Cook On Concord: A wake-up call for the U.S. and the presidential candidates," By Brad Cook (Manchester Business Review)

• Listen to the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour at The Commonwealth Club

• "US Official Calls for Tough Fiscal Decisions," By Mike O'Sullivan (Voice of America)
          --Audio-Listen to Mike O'Sullivan's report   
             (Requires QuickTime)
• Listen to the Town Hall Los Angeles event (Requires QuickTime)
• Photos of the events
• Read Jim Goodman's blog on the event

• Photos

• "Concord Coalition, Comptroller seek to make fiscal responsibility a campaign issue for '08," By Darwin Danielson (Radio Iowa)

• "Rep. Cooper hopes public alarmed after attending Fiscal Wake Up Tour," By Colby Sledge (Nashville City Paper)
• "Tour brings deficit doldrums to Nashville audience," By John Rodgers (Nashville City Paper)
• "Rep. Cooper brings ’Fiscal Wake-Up Tour’ to Nashville," By Erik Schelzig (Associated Press)

• "Stumping for Attention To Deficit Disorder," By Lori Montgomery (Washington Post)
• "Health costs, retirement will bust budget, panel says," By Stephen Nohlgren (St Petersburg Times)
• "Martinez Focuses On 'Entitlement Reform'," By William March (Tampa Tribune)
• "The Fiscal Wake Up Tour Comes to Tampa" (WMNF Radio)
• "Nation Suffers From ADD On Serious Issues," By Joseph H. Brown (Tampa Tribune)

• "U.S. comptroller urges students to make budget an issue," By: Eddie Jacovino (The Big Orange -- Syracuse University)

• "'Wake-up tour' warns of U.S. fiscal crisis", by Dan Monk (Cincinnati Business Courier)

• "Tour talks of fiscal time bomb," By Robert Behree (Charleston Post and Courier)
• "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour sounds alarm in Charleston,"
  By Shelia Watson (Charleston Business Journal)
• "'Stop digging' entitlement hole" (Charleston Post and Courier)

• "'Baby Boom' about to lower boom on overextended U.S. budget ...," By A. Harry Zeeve (TC Palm)
• "These experts tell you how you can help Washington avert it," By Laurence Reisman (TC Palm)
• "Why our domestic entitlements could doom our children," By Alison Fraser
• "Why deficits and debt render the United States vulnerable," By  Alice Rivlin and Isabel Sawhill
   

• "Fiscal wake-up tour's inconvenient truth," By Scot Lehigh (Boston Globe)
• "Budget issues should top primary questions, top accountant says," By Philip Elliott (Associated Press)
• "Wake-Up Tour warns of crisis U.S. must raise taxes, cut spending, it says," By Eric Moskowitz (Concord Monitor)
• "Primary voters urged to demand fiscal answers," By Scott Brooks (Union Leader)

• "Make 'em say how they'll pay," By David Yepsen (Des Moines Register)
• "Press Presidential Hopefuls on Nation's Fiscal Realities," (Des Moines Register)
• "Scale back debt, costly retirement entitlements,"
  By Stuart Butler (Des Moines Register)

• Debt crisis threatens future generations, OSU audience told," By Joe Hallett (Columbus Dispatch)
• "Group Warns of Deficit Disaster," By Laura A. Bischoff
• "Act now; The longer the nation waits, the harder to fix the looming entitlement crisis" (Columbus Dispatch)

• "Fiscal Wake-up Tour: Trouble ahead," By the Editorial Board (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour issues warning on U.S. economy," By Dan Richman (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• "Wake up, America! We've got to pay our bills," By Mark Trahant (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
• Podcast: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial Board Meeting

• "'Wake-up tour' offers vital message," By the Editorial Board (Rocky Mountain News)
• "Analysts sounding alarm about debt," By David Milstead (Rocky Mountain News)

• "Tour Addresses Fiscal Issues," By Joshua Winata (The Daily Texan)
• "U.S. Comptroller warns of dangers of national debt," By Francesca Jarosz (Austin American Statesman)
• "America's crushing problem" (Austin American Statesman)
• GAO Chief Warns Economic Disaster Looms (AP News Service)

• "Budget Binge is Enough to Choke On," By John Sweeney (Delaware News Journal)

• WHYY Television Show

• "Alarm Sounds on Deficit Crisis," By Henry J. Cordes (Omaha World Herald)
• "Federal Budget Outlook Gloomy," By Henry J. Cordes (Omaha World Herald)
• "It's up to the people" (Omaha World Herald)

• "Doomed by Debt" (Raleigh News & Observer)

• "A Dose of Truth" (The Oregonian)

• "Worries grow about state of fiscal denial," By Eric Black (Minneapolis Star Tribune)