Click to jump to a questionnaire: Dan Berman Timothy H. Snyder Linda Stone Bryan Wadsworth Daniel W. Berman Age 36 Virtual Design and Construction Manager/Geauga Mechanical Company www.facebook.com/Dan4Berkshire Q: What motivated you to run for your local school board A: As a former public-school educator and current father of two very young children, education has
right. if you take the changes that are discussed in this book, all of which are supported by voters, you end up with about a $36 trillion spending totals. $10 trillion less in operating spending over a decade. these are little changes. the yellow is what we re going to spend but if the people had their way, we would spend the orange. that s exactly right. like a letter map. exactly right. take a look at the federal deficit over the next decade. yellow line on the top is? what would happen if we don t do anything. people talk about this $15 trillion debt that we have but they re ignoring most of the liabilities. we also owe all kinds of unfunded liabilities and our real debt today is about $120 trillion. if we do nothing, it will go up another $40 trillion over the next decade. if we implement the ideas that the people would support, we save $100 trillion. these are big numbers. those are gigantic numbers and you re talking about saving $100 trillion over a decade. how?
are down this year by percentages in the mid teens. that s all? i m surprised. as lawmakers want washington, d.c. to continue to fight on how to address our nation s growing deficit, our next guest says the voters are the ones who will end up solving the crisis. joining us right now, a familiar face, you know scott rasmussen, he s got a brand new book out called the people s money, how voters will balance the budget and eliminate the national debt. he joins us live in new york. good morning to you. good morning. what is the people s money? the people s money is a book that shows the reason we have the budget crisis is the politicians have followed their own agenda rather than listening to the voters. they say the voters don t really want to cut spending. they talk a good game but voters won t believe it. the polling i ve done shows that s a lie. voters are the solution sxnt the problem. we have a couple of graphics and i want you to walk us through this to make your case.