Federal Fiscal Fiasco | Prairie Fire - The Progressive Voice of the Great Plains

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In our second issue, former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm launched a series of essays on the pitiful state of our Federal fiscal house. A number of our nation’s most respected fiscal policy organizations as well as many notable appointed and elected officials contributed their wise counsel. By popular demand we have collected all of these essays and present them here as part of our Prairie Fire website. We will continue to add essays on this subject as they appear in future issues of Prairie Fire.

List by author and article name links below.

The crime of the Century by Richard Lamm

Our Federal Fiscal Challenge by David Walker

America's Economy: Headed for Crisis, Part 1 by Robert Bixby, Bob Kerrey, Peter Peterson, Warren Rudman

America's Economy: Headed for Crisis, Part 2 by Robert Bixby, Bob Kerrey, Peter Peterson, Warren Rudman

America's Economy: Headed for Crisis, Part 3 by Robert Bixby, Bob Kerrey, Peter Peterson, Warren Rudman

Preserving Our Economic Future by Alison Acosta Fraser

Urgent Budget Choices, Part 1: The problem, and fixing social security by Joseph Minarik

Urgent Budget Choices, Part 2: Fixing health care by Joseph Minarik

Urgent Budget Choices, Part 3: Taxes by Joseph Minarik

The Status Quo is Not An Option: It's time to make hard choices by Paul Cullnan

Tackling the Entitlement Crisis by Paul Ryan