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A review by jjwalter2001
Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility by David M. Walker
5.0
It's amazing to me that the country does not truly realize the problems associated with our current budget trajectory and the government spending and lack of taxes to pay for it. Walker doe an excellent job of laying out those facts - in clearcut language leaving no dispute about the seriousness of the issue. He is also very clear about how our children and grandchildren will ultimately pay the price if we don't get the situation corrected.
Like them or not, he lays out some relatively common-sense solutions to these problems - from Social Security to healthcare to better managing/controlling "discretionary" government spending. I don't know that I necessarily agree with all of his solutions, but he at least provides a starting point for the discussion. He also describes these solutions at a very high level - which would be frustrating if the book weren't meant to be a primer on the debt problem.
The problem, as he hits on in the book, is that our politicians (with few exceptions) are much too immature to clearly explain the situation and courageous enough to offer real solutions...instead they continue to pander to various groups - playing one off against the other (and that's regardless of political party). Though the real crux of the problem is the typical American who continues to elect these folks back into office.
Ranting aside, this book is a "must read" to begin to understand the magnitude of the problem that we face as a country.
Like them or not, he lays out some relatively common-sense solutions to these problems - from Social Security to healthcare to better managing/controlling "discretionary" government spending. I don't know that I necessarily agree with all of his solutions, but he at least provides a starting point for the discussion. He also describes these solutions at a very high level - which would be frustrating if the book weren't meant to be a primer on the debt problem.
The problem, as he hits on in the book, is that our politicians (with few exceptions) are much too immature to clearly explain the situation and courageous enough to offer real solutions...instead they continue to pander to various groups - playing one off against the other (and that's regardless of political party). Though the real crux of the problem is the typical American who continues to elect these folks back into office.
Ranting aside, this book is a "must read" to begin to understand the magnitude of the problem that we face as a country.