Glenn Beck Shorts 01-09-08 We are 53 Trillion Dollars in Debt

Glenn Beck was right over a year ago before the economy hit the fan! This is his interview with Comptroller General of the United States, Dave Walker. The Comptroller General of the United States is the director of the Government Accountability Office (GAO, formerly known as the General Accounting Office), a legislative branch agency founded by Congress in 1921 to ensure the fiscal and managerial accountability of the federal government. The Comptroller General has the responsibility to audit the financial statements that the Secretary of the Treasury and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget present to the Congress and the President. Not surprisingly, for every fiscal year since 1996, when consolidated financial statements began, the Comptroller General has refused to endorse the accuracy of the consolidated figures for the federal budget due to serious financial management problems in the government! That's how screwed up our governmental financial situation has been for many years.