Product Details

• Region: All Regions
• Studio: CustomFlix
• DVD Release Date: July 13, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000DLAHG8
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #118,186 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

TIME-BOMB is a powerful new documentary that puts the spotlight on America's exploding national debt and the fact that our leaders are risking our economic future through shortsighted fiscal policies. With each passing day that we do nothing to address our twin deficits, we increase the chances that we will soon be facing an economic crisis of major proportions. TIME-BOMB shows why the hard-earned assets of all Americans are at risk and, on a more profound, level shows why Democracy itself is threatened. The movie features interviews with citizens who have had the courage speak out truthfully about these issues including: * Senator Warren Rudman, Co-author, Graham-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act * George Soros: Financier, Philanthropist, Author: The Bubble of American Supremacy * Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, The Blackstone Group, Author: Running on Empty * Lawrence Kotlikoff: Chairman, The Economics Department, Boston University * Kenneth Rogoff: Harvard Economics Professor and Ex-Chief of Research, IMF * Steven Rattner: Principal, The Quadrangle Group, Ex- New York Times Reporter * Benjamin Friedman: Harvard Economics Professor, Author: Day of Reckoning * Ben Cohen: Co-founder: Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and TrueMajority.com * Senator Robert Byrd: Member Senate Budget and Foreign Relations Committees and numerous ordinary citizens recorded in spontaneous on the street interviews.

TIME-BOMB is a remarkable film not only because it offers a penetrating analysis of perhaps the most dangerous threat facing America, but also because it does it in a thoroughly engrossing and entertaining manner. TIME-BOMB takes the Michael Moore genre and applies it to the spheres of economics and political science with a delicate blend of humor, musical parody and serious inquiry.

TIME-BOMB exposes George W. Bush's faith-based, supply side economics for what it is: nothing more than pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking. It shows how George Bush squandered a $5 trillion government surplus and now runs record deficits in one of the greatest miscalculations in human history. While George Bush has framed America's future in terms of the possible threats of terrorist attacks, he has virtually ignored the mounting threat of our looming fiscal crisis. Here a distinguished array of economic experts, activists, statesmen and business executives show why that threat is more real to our nation than most of us would have dared imagine.

America ignores the message of TIME-BOMB at its peril. Unless we address our "twin deficits" soon, the American economy will be falling like the towers of the World Trade Center, and no one will be remember why the war on terrorism seemed so important. After seeing this movie, you suddenly realize that there is no escaping the fact that America is moving ahead full-throttle towards an economic crisis of major proportions. And somehow we seem blissfully unaware that anything of this nature awaits us.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must see for those hoping to protect their families , June 23, 2006

By	Edward F. Smith III "Ted" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Where will the US' incredible mass movement towards taking on more and more debt lead? After viewing thoughtful and well-intentioned economists, financiers, and politicians implore our government and the public to change from this course of deficit spending, you may be scared. I am. Sad, too. Editor/interviewer/photographer/producer John Ince makes a convincing documentary of the difficulties facing the American Empire. It seems as if a lot of pain for a lot of people likely lies just ahead. I hope I can spare as many as possible from the worst of what could come. On the other side of this possible Armageddon, those who survive will be more inlightened and likely eventually live in a new era of an evolved and responsible global society. I also hope this DVD helps far-sighted and generous individuals prepare themselves for what may come and to prepare to help others.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Message, Very Amateur Production, September 8, 2007

By	enliteneer "enliteneer" - See all my reviews

First, the message is very important, and its why I gave it 3 stars, but its poorly edited and produced which is why I can't give it 5.

Just to give an example of the annoying features, an economist will say something like, the deficit is a huge problem that no one in congress wants to deal with, like an "an elephant in the living room", and then a still picture of an elephant will transition in, in case the viewer forgets what an elephant looks like. Another example is a computer graphic of a bomb exploding.. this is played after every segment, dozens of times, making me sick.

The video is littered with all these kinds of amateurish graphics and pictures that add nothing, and possible detract from what's being said... its as if the film maker picked up a copy of Premiere a week ago and went nuts with silly editing and transitions.

Its a shame because I really wanted a dvd that I could lend to friends about this topic. There is at least one other dvd out there that presents this subject matter, in a **MUCH** better way:
"60 Minutes - Wake Up Call (March 4, 2007)"

originally aired on 60 Minutes, but now sold here on Amazon. Its a bit pricey for this 12 minute segment, although you can probably find this "Dirty Little Secret" clip on youtube or the like.

5.0 out of 5 stars Must watch docu - educational film for modern America, August 6, 2009

By	Mr. K. Charman "KenCharman" (Wokingham, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an important educational film by highly qualified leaders and experts. It is pitched at a level to make it understandable by all. It succeeds in treating this complex subject in the fast cutting, sound-bite, pastiche style that audiences now prefer. You could say this trivialises the subject but as all the relevant data is shown and key players - led by the former US Treasury Comptroller of Accounting - speak direct to camera it passes muster as a serious piece of education. I think it fits the times and place very well. It is better researched, more factual and more important than Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Unfortunately, though the subject of accounting and debt control is regarded a "A Boring Truth". The style of presentation of this film goes as far as you can in overcoming the tedium of the matter.