I.O.U.S.A. showings in MN

[KenInMontiMN]

Paulians, a long overdue national night out for economics is in the works 8/21, this documentary along with a live panel discussion will be presented at theaters around the country, that night only, one-time at 7:00 PM central. The national website provides details and info, also sells you the ticket. Presumably an advance sell-out would mean getting turned away at the door due to that sellout, so don't necessarily assume that you can just show up, as you would for most movies. I've no idea how much demand there will be for this ticket in the general public.

http://www.fathomevents.com/details.aspx?eventid=728

Call others, bring friends and family, wear your Paul colors! We really don't know in advance exactly to what extent the documentary and the panel will reflect our views and our solutions- but raising the public awareness of our debt and its impact on all of us is a strong positive and the only way to take measurement of and respond to the panelist's ideas and solutions is to hear them out, should be interesting! If it sells out everywhere that will send a strong message to producers to keep on pushing the facts forward with more distribution.

It's all on the website of course, but I've followed up all the ticket purchase links through the site for the MN venues and the price does vary a bit, here is where it's showing here along with the cost:

Duluth 10 Theatre
300 HARBOR DRIVE
DULUTH, MN 55802
218-722-1573 $12.50 + $1 sc

AMC Arbor Lakes Megastar 16
12575 ELM CREEK BLVD N
MAPLE GROVE, MN 55369
763-494-0379 $18 + $1 sc

Parkwood 18 Theatre
1533 FRONTAGE ROAD NORTH
WAITE PARK, MN 56387
320-251-1188 $12.50 + $1 sc

Brooklyn Center 20
6420 CAMDEN AVENUE NORTH
MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55430
763-560-6300 $12.50, no sc mentioned

AMC Eden Prairie 18
8251 FLYING CLOUD DRIVE
EDEN PRAIRIE, MN 55344
952-656-0010 $18.00 + $1 sc

AMC Rosedale 14
10 ROSEDALE CTR
ROSEVILLE, MN 55113
651-604-9347 $18.00 + $1 sc

Eagan 16
2055 CLIFF ROAD
EAGAN, MN 55122
651-452-8329 $12.50, no sc mentioned

Oakdale Cinema
5677 HADLEY AVE NORTH
OAKDALE, MN 55128
651-770-4194 $12.50 + $1 sc

[dirknb@hotmail.com]

We really don't know in advance exactly to what extent the documentary and the panel will reflect our views and our solutions- but raising the public awareness of our debt and its impact on all of us is a strong positive and the only way to take measurement of and respond to the panelist's ideas and solutions is to hear them out, should be interesting!

If it's in mainstream theaters across America you can bet your ass it won't get to the heart of the matter and will most likely blame the visible politicians as usual and not demonstrate how they are merely puppets.

[KenInMontiMN]

I'm inclined to give this panel a hearing, Niskanen in particular strikes me as a man unafraid to put truth forward even when it's inconveniently counter to the general thinking of his Cato Institute, which he chairs. He had the dispassionate courage to tell the truth about 'Reagan's Folly,' the notion that you could shrink Federal Gov't by starving the beast.

Reagan ran on small gov't talk but turned the reins over to the bankers org once elected, perhaps he listened to the advice of his vice-president to too great a degree, and in fact was the first president to wildly expand the national debt well beyond the traditional 2 trillion (inflation-adjusted y2k dollars) that had been very steadily maintained from post-WWII forward. Dr. Paul is right on the money in declaring that despite his early support for Dutch, those administrations were by-and-large a complete failure for small gov't, and he turned out to be very much a neocon president in deed if not always in word. He gave us our first disastrous amnesty for illegals as well. You can't despise Bush today for his fiscal insanity without acknowledging that Reagan first threw those floodgates wide open, and failure to notice the striking similarities between the two simply means you're not looking.

Niskanen on starving the beast: http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v26n2/cpr-26n2-2.pdf

Though he doesn't say it in so many words, he honestly warns that providing more and more gov't for less and less revenue intake only marks the product (gov't) down to bargain-basement levels and creates a strong demand for it- a demand which either puts the eventual cost on our children or causes the complete collapse of the credit-driven economy, along with the expansive gov't itself.

It promises to be an interesting discussion.