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It’s Government That’s Gotten Lazy, Not America

By    |   Thursday, 17 November 2011 01:21 PM EST

It is arguably the job of any U.S. president to be our cheerleader-in-chief. That’s why President Obama’s recent comments blasting the business community for being asleep at the switch have the rest of the country reeling.

“We’ve been a little bit lazy over the last couple of decades. We’ve kind of taken for granted — ‘Well, people would want to come here’ — and we aren’t out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new businesses into America,” he told the corporate chiefs who gathered at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

But with millions of Americans out of work, maybe it’s the president who needs to do a better job of making America more attractive. Instead, Obama has reverted to his old playbook as he campaigns across the country on a platform of doom and gloom meant to deflect blame from himself to the Republicans.

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It is arguably the job of any U.S. president to be our cheerleader-in-chief. That s why President Obama s recent comments blasting the business community for being asleep at the switch have the rest of the country reeling. We ve been a little bit lazy over the last couple...
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