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8/22/13

There's nothing Obama can't make worse

President Obama swept into office carrying the media’s breathless hopes that he would prove to be a modern-day Lincoln. But in a time of dizzying economic restructuring, instead of becoming a 21st century Great Emancipator, Obama is repeatedly proving himself to be the American economy’s Great Exacerbator: There’s nothing his policies can’t make worse.
"I got thinking about this because the President is headed, for the first time, to my hometown of Binghamton, NY, tomorrow to talk tough about college costs. Good enough. Higher education expenses are certainly riotously out of control and the federal government’s likely the main culprit in making it so, so he should be talking about it," writes Dave Maney in Forbes.
"But I’ll lay odds that Binghamtonians would much rather hear what he thinks can be done to arrest the private sector economic death spiral that the city and other small Rust Belt cities like it find themselves in – and which Obama’s core policies seem hell-bent on making worse." More here