The New Era of Irresponsibility

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Author(s) Jacob Sullum
Source Reason
Date February 4, 2009
URL http://reason.com/news/show/131468.html
Quote
Quotes-start.png "Remember when the problem with Americans was that we saved too little, preferring instant gratification even when we couldn't afford it? As Obama put it in October, "we were allowed and even encouraged to spend without limits, to borrow instead of save." Economists worried that our low saving rate made our economy and our government dangerously dependent on the whims of foreign investors. Yet on Monday, when Commerce Department data showed that the U.S. saving rate had risen sharply, from less than 1 percent of after-tax income a year ago to 3.6 percent in December, the press treated the increase as bad news." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position Act should be passed on the topic American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.