14-Sep-03
"Driven by concern about the fiscal future -- and the administration's and Congress's failure to address it -- the usually low-profile head of the General Accounting Office, Comptroller General David Walker, sets a speech for Wednesday at the National Press Building. Crisis looms, he'll say, yet policies in place and planned only will worsen it: 'It's time to admit that we are in a fiscal hole and to stop digging.'"
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB106331670357777900,00.html
WASHINGTON WIRE
By JACKIE CALMES - Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
BE WARNED: Driven by concern about the fiscal future -- and the administration's and Congress's failure to address it -- the usually low-profile head of the General Accounting Office, Comptroller General David Walker, sets a speech for Wednesday at the National Press Building. Crisis looms, he'll say, yet policies in place and planned only will worsen it: "It's time to admit that we are in a fiscal hole and to stop digging."