“The power under the constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can and undoubtedly will, be recalled.”

~ George Washington (1787)

Saturday, June 2, 2012

"I'm praying to God that the president is a one-term president."


President Barack Obama should be a one-term president as his policies have failed to make fundamental improvements to the economy, says noted investor and Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone.

Under Obama, the government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars stimulating the economy. And while better than doing nothing, such measures haven't cultivated demand and more-lasting growth but have added to the country's debt burdens.

Furthermore, the Federal Reserve under Obama has injected trillions of dollars into the economy to stave off deflationary decline, a policy that has made no lasting improvements to the job market that they were designed to do.

"This president needs to go because he hasn't gotten the job done," Langone tells CNBC.
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