The Obama economy is killing people

The inability of people aged 40 and above to find a decent job to support their families has led to an epidemic of suicides. But as Betsy McCaughey points out in this New York Post column, you'd never know it to hear President Obama and Hillary Clinton talk.  President Obama insists that the "“American economy is pretty darn good right now.” False. The Obama economy is stalled. It grew at a measly .7 percent annualized rate the first quarter of this year. That’s compared with the 3.5 percent rate the US enjoyed for most of the 20th century — what’s needed to sustain employment and optimism. True, the economy slowed under George W. Bush. Obama inherited a recession and, with it, a suicide epidemic. When the recession hit, suicide deaths suddenly started outnumbering deaths from auto accidents. But eight years later, job losses are still driving the suicide rate higher and higher. Clinton seems unmoved. She’s pledging...(Read Full Post)