Columnist’s argument was straight out of the ’70s

Dan Freeman’s attempt to frame America’s debt crisis in a political “us versus them” scenario is a disservice to voters (“ US economy lacks a resilience once part of its DNA ,” The Daily News, May 28).

He speaks of the famed “Obama recovery.” The data demonstrates that it was the weakest economic recovery on record despite being the most expensive at the time. In President Barack Obama’s first budget the food stamp program cost American taxpayers over $53 billion. By the end of the “Obama recovery,” the food stamp program had grown to over $68 billion and participation had […]

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