Time to Shrink the National Debt
14 June 2013
Romina Boccia, Assistant Director at the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, discusses a new video by "Bankrupting America" that uses humor to call attention to how rising national debt hurts American families and policy changes that are needed to fix entitlements and get spending under control.
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