Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey is an original
Reason.tv documentary series airing the week of March 15-19, 2010.
Featuring sitcom legend, Price Is Right host, and proud Clevelander Drew Carey, each 10-minute episode investigates and analyzes the problems that turned Cleveland from the nation's sixth-largest city in 1950 into today's "Mistake By The Lake."
Like all too many American cities, Cleveland seems locked into a death spiral, shedding people, jobs, and dreams like nobody's business. When it comes to education, business climate, redevelopment, and more, Clevelanders have come to expect the worse.
Is a renaissance possible? Of course it is, but only if the city's leaders and residents are willing to learn from other cities such as Houston, Chicago, Oakland, and Indianapolis. And only if they're willing to try new approaches to old problems.
Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie narrates and talks with educators, elected officials, businesspeople, policy experts, and residents from all walks of life. Reason Saves Cleveland maps a route back to prosperity and growth not just for Cleveland but for other once-great American cities.
Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey is written and produced by Paul Feine; camera and editing by Roger Richards and Alex Manning; music by the Cleveland band Cats on Holiday.
Fifty-one percent of the private economy is today owned or controlled by the federal government. Before September of 2008 and for all the previous history of this country, one hundred percent of our economy has been private as America. But since September 2008 with the TARP bailout, that was under George W. Bush, that was $700,000,000,000; from that point forward we watched government take over one industry after another. We purchased, the government, purchased large banks, the largest insurance company in the United States, AIG, Freddie and Fannie, the secondary mortgage market, which means the United States government now owns over fifty percent of all private home mortgages. We still own Chrysler and GM the largest car companies. We own the student loan industry and now we control the health sector which is another eighteen percent of the economy. You add all that up, 51 percent of the economy is now owned or controlled by the federal government.
