In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Walker said he had mentioned some of the issues before but now wanted to “turn up the volume”. Some of them were too sensitive for others in government to “have their name associated with”.
“I’m trying to sound an alarm and issue a wake-up call,” he said. “As comptroller general I’ve got an ability to look longer-range and take on issues that others may be hesitant, and in many cases may not be in a position, to take on.
“With the looming retirement of baby boomers, spiralling healthcare costs, plummeting savings rates and increasing reliance on foreign lenders, we face unprecedented fiscal risks,” said Mr Walker, a former senior executive at PwC auditing firm.
Current US policy on education, energy, the environment, immigration and Iraq also was on an “unsustainable path”.
“Our very prosperity is placing greater demands on our physical infrastructure. Billions of dollars will be needed to modernise everything from highways and airports to water and sewage systems. The recent bridge collapse in Minneapolis was a sobering wake-up call.”
You know I had a very similar conversation with a teenager who wanted to know why we could not simply keep on killing our enemies until there were no more left. I explained, as patiently as I was able, that you would never run out of enemies if, for every dead one, you created ten more.
I told this young man that the key to remaining a world power was to attract support and good will and not by bullying others into bending to your will.
I don't think it takes a genius to figure this out. Just somebody smarter then the people currently running our country.
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