Medicare, Medicaid, Soc Security Drive Debt. It's Fixable.

Maya MacGuineas is a warrior for stewardship. In her case, stewardship of America’s fiscal resources. As president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, MacGuineas leads an organization that helps analyze and develop policies to control deficit spending and the nation’s federal debt, which is the accumulation of all our deficits over time.

In this interview with Catalyst Editor William McKenzie, she explains the threat the debt poses to valuable programs like Social Security and Medicare but also to our ability to deal with over-the-horizon problems such as having enough dollars to educate a modern workforce. After working on fiscal issues for two decades, MacGuineas contends that controlling the debt must begin with strong political leadership.