David Walker Wake Up Tour

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D a v i d W a l k e r i s i s t h e n a t i o n ' s top accountant and the comptroller general of the United States. He is the head of the wake up tour, he travels the world like an Old Testament prophet, urging people to wake up before it’s too late and the debt engulfs the American people. David Walker had totaled up our government's income, liabilities, and future obligations and found out that our current standard of living is unsustainable unless some drastic action is taken. On the tour he is explaining to people that the U.S. has spent, promised, and burrowed itself into such a deep hole it will be unable to get out if they don't act now. The fact is that we won't face immediate crisis, so people say “What's the big deal” The answer

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