Saving Our Future Requires Tough Choices Today

This speech was given by the a Comptroller General Presentation before the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour Presentations audience in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Jose, and San Francisco, on September 11-14, 2007. Major topics of this presentation include: composition of federal spending, fiscal year 2005 and 2006 deficits and net operating costs, fiscal burden, unsustainable current fiscal policy, and key national indicators.