Though President Barack Obama has spent trillions of dollars, the U.S. economy is stagnant, fewer people are employed than when he became president, the percentage of people unemployed for over a year has doubled since then, the poverty rate is the worst in two decades, and more than 40 million Americans â?? a record â?? are on food stamps.
More government spending has been widely-touted as a cure for unemployment, but support for that view seems to be eroding â?? not least because Obama has little to show for his spending spree except about $4 trillion of additional debt. America needed more than 200 years to hit that number, but Obama did it in only three years. The experience offers a reminder that there isnâ??t any net gain from government spending since itâ??s offset by the taxes needed to pay for it, taxes that reduce private sector spending.
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