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Published September 09, 2011
The breathtaking aspect of Mr. Obama’s speech, if there was one, is that after weeks of working up this presentation, he utterly failed to propose how the nation will pay for the $450 billion program.
Published August 16, 2011
President Obama is an attractive, well-meaning fellow but he must go. He is absolutely the wrong man to occupy the White House at this time.
Published August 09, 2011
Our country needs reassurance that Mr. Obama is a leader. Americans worry there is no way out of this mess. They are wrong. the best tonic for our deficits and for our unemployment is growth.
Published August 08, 2011
There's plenty of blame to go around now from the S&P to President Obama to the Tea Party to even the New York Times now that we find stocks in a nosedive in the aftermath of the debt ceiling debacle and the S&P downgrade.
Published August 06, 2011
President Obama celebrated his ability to clean up asbestos from public housing as a young community organizer -- so why is he still so blind to the growing power of Tea Party activists who are trying to clean up our country’s balance sheet?
Published July 27, 2011
This is not your grandmother’s debt-ceiling debate. While the lid on government borrowings has been raised dozens of times since 1917, when it was first put in place in order to sell war bonds, the current scuffle is different for several reasons. The debate is more raucous and more threatening than ever before.
Published July 18, 2011
For President Obama, this debt ceiling showdown between the House and the White House has distracted the American public from the ghastly, struggling economy. Our 9.2% unemployment rate is being displaced in our nation’s consciousness by the cat fight in Washington.
Published July 12, 2011
President Obama seems to have forgotten that only last November the country raced to the polls and delivered him a serious shellacking by electing 87 new Republicans to the House of Representatives. Did he think they were kidding?
Published July 08, 2011
The most interesting aspect of President Obama’s brief (very brief) comments on Friday was his numerous references to reducing uncertainty. After a solid year and a half of businesses and entrepreneurs complaining that the upheaval of huge sectors of our economy engineered by this administration might – just might – be causing some managers to hesitate before adding to plant or personnel, Mr. Obama is now embracing certainty.
Published July 04, 2011
The debate today over the debt ceiling, and cutting government spending, is not just about the reckoning of budgets and accounts – there is profound disagreement about whether the burden of constantly widening support services will eventually dishearten our productive class. This is a debate worth having.