A player in debt issue? Harlem Shake

If you were waiting for the political world to glom onto the ?Harlem Shake? online dancing phenomenon, your wait is over.

Alice Rivlin, the former director of the Congressional Budget Office, and David Walker, the former Comptroller General of the United States, are getting their shake on in a new video for The Can Kicks Back campaign.

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The video begins innocently enough, with Rivlin and Walker telling a conference room full of twenty somethings that ?it?s time to shake things up? and ?there?s no dancing around the fact that more needs to be done? (get it?).

?The Congressional Budget Office?s new report shows that our national debt will hit 77 percent of the gross domestic product by 2023,? says Rivlin. ?We can?t grow our economy and have a prosperous America with debt growing that fast.?

?And you know that will impact young people the most,? Walker says.

Then things get crazy.

True to ?Harlem Shakes? form, the conference room ? including Rivlin and Walker ? bust into body-wriggling dancing.

The Internet meme, which has exploded online this month, begins with one person dancing with those around him or her seemingly unaware. Later, the entire room erupts into dance.

The Can Kicks Back campaign was launched late last year and is a ?millennial-driven campaign to fix the national debt and reclaim our American Dream,? according to its website.

This isn?t the group?s first foray into viral videos ? this was the group that brought us former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson dancing ?Gangham style?.

Source: http://feeds.politico.com/click.phdo?i=c171ae2245f9b10f3b9d450b3a29e72c

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