video file available online already!
Thanks so much, Telly!
Warning: this show will "make you either want to throw up or do bodily harm to your elected representatives"
This show appears to be only on KERA, the generally superb Dallas public television channel (I used to live near Dallas many years ago.)
But ... good news ... the video for this show is already available "worldwide" !!! (I watched it at 2am Sunday morning.)
Go to:
The Foundation for Responsible Television
and you'll see this text:
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Generational Storm - Part 1
June 24th, 2007
Direct Federal debt of almost $9 trillion and over $50 trillion in promises for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid could lead to future generations paying twice as much in taxes as we do today. How did this situation develop?
The Panelists:
Scott Burns, Syndicated Columnist, Author: The Coming Generational Storm
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and the following link to the video:
(29min, 8sec)
http://www.mccuistiontv.com/images/shows/videos/06242007a.WMV
[For some reason, they also have links to "part 2" and "part 3" - why? I don't know. Part 2 appears to be roughly the middle third of the show (9min, 44 sec), and Part 3 appears to be roughly the third third of the show (9min, 45 sec).
Terribly sorry to inform you that it is in the atrocious WMV (ugh!) format, but hey, we should just be grateful to get it in any format, eh? I'd highly recommend using VLC as the media viewer for these files. Get VLC from:
http://www.videolan.org/
No real review here, but a couple observations of a few snippets [please note: intentional effort on my part to be non-political]:
-Future funding for Social Security an enormous problem
-Future funding for Medicare[/Medicaid] an even bigger problem,
-Disenchanted Republicans decrying federal budget profligacy by Republicans (and Democrats),
-We should expect frighteningly huge federal tax increases (doubling) for Americans of the future (kids and grandkids),
-Entertaining fold-out-paper demonstration of national debt growth, etc. -Solution? the Tooth Fairy. (I'm not kidding ... he said that ... but I think/hope Scott Burns was kidding.)
-Host: "They don't care about the children."
-Host: long quote from Ron Paul
[note: a recent Scott Burns column praised Ron Paul's fiscal policies, and I seem to recall he contributed to Paul's campaign. Paul is sometimes described as rather libertarian - fiscally very conservative and socially very liberal. He seems to infuriate most Republicans and most Democrats - on different points.]
[unnecessary tangent: Ron Paul once called for investigation of an Office of National Drug Control Policy employee named SCOTT BURNS, who apparently spent federal funds writing to state prosecutors urging them to lobby for tougher state criminal statutes regarding marijuana use.]
[Again, please note I'm trying to avoid expressing my own political views, and I don't mean to encourage a political discussion. And sorry if I failed to mention aspects of the show you find to be more important than the few I included - hey, it's 3am, ok?]
Next week - Part Two - Solutions
This show archive page covers a number of interesting topics:
The Foundation for Responsible Television
). 
