Arianna: If "America can do whatever we set our mind to," how come our leaders won't set their minds on jobs?
Arianna Huffington:
"We do big things," President Obama said during his State of the Union speech in January. And, in fact, we do. Sometimes. Finding and dispatching Osama bin Laden certainly qualifies. "We are once again reminded," the president said after announcing the terrorist's death, "that America can do whatever we set our mind to." But if that's true, why are our leaders so accepting of a stagnant economy? If they really focused on the havoc it is wreaking on the lives of tens of millions of Americans, they would, in the memorable words of Richard Clarke, be running around with their hair on fire. But they're not. Instead, we're being asked to accept years of underemployment, low growth and draconian cuts to America's social safety nets as the "new normal."
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