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Contact: Patrick Tucker Assistant Editor THE FUTURIST Director of Communications World Future Society 301-656-8274 ptucker@wfs.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE U.S. Comptroller General Warns of Looming Financial Disaster in THE FUTURIST Magazine. Bethesda, MD:  "Federal deficits will grow to unsustainable levels in as little as two decades," warns the comptroller general of the United States, David M. Walker in the March-April issue of THE FUTURIST magazine.  "At that point, without significant policy changes, federal deficits could reach 10% or more of our economy."              According to Walker, the time has come for the federal government to make some tough choices about budget systems, legislative processes, entitlement programs, spending patterns, and tax policies. "The sooner we begin to act, the better, because we are the world’s largest debtor nation, and time is working against us," he warns.              In the March-April FUTURIST, Walker goes on to describe how public officials, concerned citizens, and government bodies can better secure their future by planning in the long term, today.  http://www.wfs.org/futcontma07.htm Pick up the March-April issue of THE FUTURIST for $4.95 at bookstores and newsstands, or write the World Future Society, 7910 Woodmont Ave., Suite 450, Bethesda, MD 20814. Order online at http://www.wfs.org/futcontma07.htm THE FUTURIST is a bimonthly magazine focused on innovation, creative thinking, and emerging social, economic, environmental, and technological trends. Among the thinkers and experts who have contributed to THE FUTURIST are Gene Roddenberry, Al Gore, Newt Gingrich, Richard Lamm, Alvin and Heidi Toffler, Buckminster Fuller, Frederik Pohl, Isaac Asimov, Vaclav Havel, Hazel Henderson, Margaret Mead, Robert McNamara, Betty Friedan, Nicholas Negroponte, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Lester R. Brown, Arthur C. Clarke, Douglas Rushkoff, Joel Garreau, and William J. Mitchell. Pressroom Return to top