Frontline: Ten Trillion and Counting

UPC: 841887010566

Studio: PBS

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:null

Summary: As America's national debt surpasses the trillion dollar mark, the producers at Frontline ponder the financial well being of current and future retirees while reflecting on how we got into this mess, and what the Obama administration plans to do about it. Year after year, America closes the gaps in its national budget by selling T-bills and bonds that are guaranteed by the "full faith and credit of the U.S." But the foreigners who frequently purchase these obligations are beginning to grow wary of this system. Now, like the Bush administration before it, the Obama administration has started borrowing big with plans to slash the yearly budget sometime down the road. Anyone can see that this can't go on forever, but the one thing no one can predict is when - or how - it will all end. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Business [nf]

Features: cc

Frontline: Ten Trillion and Counting

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 06/16/2009

Audio: DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 60 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Frontline: Ten Trillion and Counting
1. Introduction [1:47]
2. What Obama Inherited [7:25]
3. Bush's Economic Agenda [16:00]
4. Politics and the Mounting Debt [7:06]
5. Partisan Politics In a Time of Crisis [7:15]
6. "The Greatest Threat Is Health Care" [8:29]
7. Obama's Budget [4:37]
8. Credits [2:35]

Cast and Crew: Mark Obenhaus  Producer 
Mark Obenhaus  Screenwriter 
Tom Yellin  Executive Producer 
Tom Yellin  Producer 
David Schisgall  Producer 
David Fanning  Executive Producer 
Gabrielle Tenenbaum  Producer 
Ben Decter  Composer (Music Score) 
Tim Mangini  Director 

Country: USA