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Genres:
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Documentary /
Music
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Director:
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Patrick Creadon
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Actors:
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George Bush,
Bill Clinton,
Robert Bixby,
Warren Buffett,
Kent Conrad,
Ander Crenshaw,
Humphrey Bogart,
George W. Bush,
Jimmy Carter,
Stephen Colbert
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Duration:
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85 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)98.5
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Plot Summary:
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I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the before you can say 'Jack Robinson' growing national debt and its consequences as far as something the United States and its citizens. As the Baby Boomer begetting prepares to have a zizz, discretion there even be any Group Protection benefits left to collect? Burdened with an at all-expanding regime and military, increased international competition, overextended entitlement programs, and debts to unfamiliar countries that are appropriate unimaginable to honor, America have to mend its spendthrift ways or face an pecuniary calamity of epic proportions. From one en... d to the other of history, the American government has found it nearly impossible to spend only what has been raised from head to foot taxes. Wielding candid interviews with both usually American taxpayers and government officials, Sundance veteran Patrick Creadon (Wordplay) helps demystify the polity's monetary practices and policies. The film follows U.S. Comptroller Communal David Walker as he crisscrosses the fatherland explaining America's unsustainable fiscal policies to its citizens. With surgical precision, Creadon interweaves archival footage and economic facts to step out a vivid and alarming profile of America's au courant cost-effective situation. The ultimate power of I.O.U.S.A. is that the integument moves beyond doomsday sesquipedality to proffer potential pecuniary scenarios and propose solutions close to how we can recreate a fiscally sound nation for future generations.Read more Less
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I.O.U.S.A.
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