‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama Flops?; Saving the Middle Class

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‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama Flops?; Saving the Middle Class

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Did Obama have anything to offer in the way of, say, hope during his latest news conference on the economy? Will Elizabeth Warren’s likely appointment to head up Obama’s Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection represent a much-needed boost for the struggling middle class? Tony Blankley spars with Robert Scheer and Arianna Huffington about the state of our economy—and Obama’s presidency—on this week’s “Left, Right & Center.” —KA

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By SteveL, September 10, 2010 at 8:00 pm Link to this comment

The middle class suffers because their jobs are being off shored by trade, tariff,
and tax policies that send their jobs away. Changing these policies would not
require an out put of money by the Treasury in a stimulus program. It would just
require an unusual display of will by some politician.

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