Out-of-Control Debt

02/13/2008

Bill Moyers Journal

Airtime: Friday, February 15, 2008, at 9:00 PM ET on PBS
(check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html).


Does America's $9 trillion federal debt mean we are mortgaging our future and jeopardizing individual savings, health care and retirement for generations to come? Bill Moyers gets a reality check from Public Agenda's Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, co-authors of "Where Does the Money Go?: Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis."

Also on the program, Sarah Chayes, author and former journalist, who has been helping rebuild Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban regime, with a look at the front lines of America's war there.

And photographer Lori Grinker takes viewers to Amman, Jordan, for a devastating look at the fate of Iraqi refugees displaced by the conflict.