On August 2, 2011, President Obama
signed into law the measure to raise the debt limit. That same afternoon, Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson and Lisa Mensah, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s Initiative on Financial Security (Aspen IFS), joined NPR’s Talk of the Nation host Tony Cox to tackle the question of how do we balance our obligations to the elderly while making investments in our future generations.
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