The Issue: President Obama’s explanations for why America’s economic woes have lasted so long.
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James Pethokoukis forgot to note why President Obama thinks it takes so long to recover from a financial recession (“The ‘New Normal’ Excuse,” PostOpinion, Aug. 19).
The government looked at the main example of an economic recession — the Great Depression — and followed the same blueprint. Guess what? They got the same results — no recovery.
Big spending and big government lead to a depressed free market, which stops recovery.
The contrast with Calvin Coolidge, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan shows what works, rather than what Obama did.
Paul Sheridan
Hicksville
Obama promised us the sky, and then it fell in. He blamed his failed policies on George W. Bush, who bequeathed him a recession greater than Obama expected.
Unable to master the gearshift of the vehicle Bush had driven into the ditch, and now desperate to make a case for his re-election, Obama covers his abject failure to improve things by claiming that we face a new normal.
“Hey, it’s not my fault,” he cries, “it’s private equitarians like Mitt Romney who have created a new, dismal normal.”
Yeah, right.
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati