Obama: We Can’t Go Back To Policies That Got Us Into This Mess

President Obama says that more time and persistence is all the economy needs to make a full recovery.

President Obama says that more time and persistence is all the economy needs to make a full recovery. He adds that the very thing that will bring the U.S back into a recession is “going back to the policies that got us into this mess in the first place.”

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