Founding, this gathering is the beginning for us of a large, ambitious project today. I and i want to say just a few words about it before we get going with our conversation. 2026 is a lot of you know is going to mark the 250th anniversary of the american founding. A lot of organizations, a lot of individuals will recognize that milestone in a variety of ways. But thinking through how we might best that here, we thought that the kind of contribution we could make would be some of lasting intellectual product through a set of conferences that will then yield a set of books, other kinds of educational materials that explore how americans now should understand our heritage, our inheritance. The key and questions at issue in the american founding. Those materials can outlast the anniversary and conserve educators, students and citizens in general. For many years to come. And to do that, were going draw on a variety of scholars from a variety of fields with a diversity of viewpoints to offe
Table. I have here the Government Accountability Office Document that nations fiscal health. May 2023. Issued a couple weeks ago, this was issued to every leader in congress by the Executive Branch. The gao is one of the best of the entities our government has, what do they say. Why do we care. It says balance of current revenue, resolve in debt growing faster than the economy, thi this is unsustainable. The government never writes reports like this or speaks like this. It continues cbo, has stated high and rising federal debt is a fiscal crisis. Underlying conditions driving unsustainable fiscal outlook post, social challenges have not addressed. They are trying to say, the economy could collapse. Could collapse. They go on they are saying were not at war, The Ethe Econo Economics Balancedded 3 Out Of Last 4 years. For example, debt held by public, grew during economic expansion of june 2009 to february 2020, it did not grow during the economic expansion from March Of 1991 to march of
Everybody. Im of the American Enterprise institute. Its my great pleasure to welcome you to a set of conversations today. Democracy and, the american founding, this gathering is the beginning for us of a large, ambitious project today. I and i want to say just a few words about it before we get going with our conversation. 2026 is a lot of you know is going to mark the 250th anniversary of the american founding. A lot of organizations, a lot of individuals will recognize that milestone in a variety of ways. But thinking through how we might best that here, we thought that the kind of contribution we could make would be some of lasting intellectual product through a set of conferences that will then yield a set of books, other kinds of educational materials that explore how americans now should understand our heritage, our inheritance. The key and questions at issue in the american founding. Those materials can outlast the anniversary and conserve educators, students and citizens in gen
Everybody. Im of the American Enterprise institute. Its my great pleasure to welcome you to a set of conversations today. Democracy and, the american founding, this gathering is the beginning for us of a large, ambitious project today. I and i want to say just a few words about it before we get going with our conversation. 2026 is a lot of you know is going to mark the 250th anniversary of the american founding. A lot of organizations, a lot of individuals will recognize that milestone in a variety of ways. But thinking through how we might best that here, we thought that the kind of contribution we could make would be some of lasting intellectual product through a set of conferences that will then yield a set of books, other kinds of educational materials that explore how americans now should understand our heritage, our inheritance. The key and questions at issue in the american founding. Those materials can outlast the anniversary and conserve educators, students and citizens in gen
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