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August 27, 2010

The Most Fiscally Imprudent Gov't In History

Mort Zuckerman, U.S. News

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By Mortimer B. Zuckerman

Posted: August 26, 2010

There is an instinctive conclusion among the American public that President Obama's stimulus package has failed to create a sustained recovery. Unemployment has increased, not declined; consumers have retrenched; housing starts have crashed along with mortgage applications; and there is a fear that a double-dip recession may very well be in the pipeline. The public perception, reflected in Pew Research/National...

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TAGGED: Budget Deficit, Stimulus, Mortimer Zuckerman

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