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 WBAL Radio: AUDIO INTERVIEW
An Inconvenient Debt
Ron Smith, of WBAL Radio, interviews Addison Wiggin about our country's financial crisis. Listen >> |
 Examiner:
Is doomsday inevitable?
Unless you have the $9.3 trillion needed to lift the country from its financial demise, you’ll want to see “I.O.U.S.A.,” showing at the Maryland Film Festival. |
 Baltimore Sun:
Boomers Planting A Debt Bomb
The biggest U.S. financial crisis isn't the housing crunch. It's the government debt bomb being planted by baby boomers to explode in the faces of their children and grandchildren |
An Inconvenient Debt:
Baltimore company's documentary 'I.O.U.S.A.' delivers plain talk about the shaky status of the U.S. economy.
I.O.U.S.A., a documentary being screened three times at this weekend's 10th annual Maryland Film Festival, uses every tool available to drum home its message that deficit spending is bad, that a country built on it is heading for nowhere but trouble. It's a message both cautionary and, given the film was in gestation long before home foreclosures and spiraling gas prices sent the American economy into a tizzy, disturbingly prescient. Read On >>
 NPR talks to Addison Wiggin
NPR talks to Addison Wiggin, Exective Publisher of Agora Financial and Executive Producer of the new documentary film, I.O.U.S.A., which exposes the U.S. National Debt. Listen here >>
 Baltimore Messenger: NEW ARTICLE
Mt. Washington Man Produces 'Big-Budget' Film
In the face of foreclosures, rising gas prices, devaluation of the dollar, a run on rice, and the 2008 presidential contest comes "I.O.U.S.A," a locally produced documentary about the national debt.
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| I.O.U.S.A. “It’s A BIG Budget Movie” |
 Wake up, America! We’re 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 and its citizens. As the Baby Boomer generation prepares to retire, will there even be any Social Security benefits left to collect? 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.
Throughout history, the American government has found it nearly impossible to spend only what has been raised through taxes. Wielding candid interviews with both average American taxpayers and government officials, Sundance veteran Patrick Creadon (Wordplay) helps demystify the nation’s financial practices and policies. The film follows U.S. Comptroller General David Walker as he crisscrosses the country explaining America’s unsustainable fiscal policies to its citizens.
With surgical precision, Creadon interweaves archival footage and economic data to paint a vivid and alarming profile of America’s current economic situation. The ultimate power of I.O.U.S.A. is that the film moves beyond doomsday rhetoric to proffer potential financial scenarios and propose solutions about how we can recreate a fiscally sound nation for future generations.
Pointedly topical and consummately nonpartisan, I.O.U.S.A. drives home the message that the only time for America’s financial future is now. |
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I.O.U.S.A. Debuted at:
The Sundance Film Festival
Sat. January 19, 6:15p
Park City, Utah
www.sundance.org
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| I.O.U.S.A. Reviews: |
Feb. 4, 2008:
The Docs of Sundance 2008: Veterans Return and AMERICAN TEEN Leads the Way (Part 3) |
Jan. 30, 2008:
Hooray for Hollywood |
Jan. 24, 2008:
Sundance 2008 Interview: Patrick Creadon (I.O.U.S.A) |
Jan. 24, 2008:
US spending its way toward disaster: documentary film. |
Jan. 23, 2008:
Creadon's film could just as easily have been titled "An Inconvenient Truth," |
Jan. 23, 2008:
Filmmaker puts American debt in Sundance spotlight. |
Jan. 23, 2008:
I.O.U.S.A. (Review + Background Buzz) |
Jan 20, 2008:
I.O.U.S.A. - 4 out of 4 stars |
Jan 21, 2008:
Few are aware that America may be on the brink of a financial meltdown. |
Jan. 20, 2008:
Docs Continue to Stir Sundance: "Teen," "Water," "I.O.U.S.A." |
Jan 16, 2008:
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: Small town, large impact |
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| “I.O.U.S.A. is the kind of film that is so timely, so immediate in its concerns, that it should air on network television tonight, rather than go through a lengthy festival and theatrical run.” |
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| "I.O.U.S.A." may not be the sexiest film at the Sundance Film Festival, but it could be the most timely.” |
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| “…Creadon is the pop documentary equivalent of the New York Times Sunday Magazine…” |
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| “...an alternately amusing and alarming primer on America's off-the-charts fiscal irresponsibility.” |
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“The next president better take this seriously, or I fear that we'll be in a much worse situation than a recession.”
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| “…may be to the U.S. economy what "An Inconvenient Truth" was to the environment.” |
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| “…most unexpectedly frightening movie in the festival.” |
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“I.O.U.S.A." is crucial viewing for anyone who claims to care about America.”
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| “… fascinating call-to-arms…” |
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| "… I.O.U.S.A. is a powerful documentary that makes no qualms about espousing its point of view." |
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| “…express profound or complicated topics in succinct, entertaining ways...” |
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| What Viewers Are Saying... |
Listen to some audience reactions of I.O.U.S.A. — recorded after the film's premier at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
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From AGORA Financial’s I.O.U.S.A.
Sundance 2008 Image
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Images by WireImage and Craig Stouffer, lostproject.net |
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| I.O.U.S.A. Book: |
Authors: Addison Wiggin, Kate Incontrera
 I.O.U.S.A. will accompany the new feature-length documentary based on the writings of Addison Wiggin and Bill Bonner. According to filmmaker Patrick Creadon, "America's federal debt is $8.6 trillion and growing at a frightening rate. In addition, our major entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) are dangerously unfunded. As a country, we are slowly spending ourselves to death."
I.O.U.S.A. also picks up where the best-selling Empire of Debt left off. It will feature stories about the people involved in making decisions about the four major deficits in the country (federal deficit, trade deficit, savings deficit, and leadership deficit). Interviews have already been conducted with Warren Buffet, Robert Rubin, Alice Rivlin, Pete Peterson, David Walker, Paul O'Neill, James Areddy, and Bill Bonner.
Pre Order Your Copy Now From Amazon.com >> |
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| Additional Resources: |
The Concord Coalition
A nationwide, grass roots organization advocating generationally responsible fiscal policy. |
| Concord Coalition Presents The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour |
The U.S. Government Accountability Office
(GAO) is known as "the investigative arm of Congress" and "the congressional watchdog." |
Brookings
An independent research and policy institute. Brookings website contains briefing papers, analyses, and other resources related to many current political issues. |
The Heritage Foundation
A research and educational institute - a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. |
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