Despite ritual boosterism, soothing rhetoric and quiet prayers by Wall Street pundits, the economy is foul and likely to get much worse. We've lost jobs for five months in a row. Gas, food, health care costs are soaring. For workers, the mess is worse than the stagflation of the 1970s. Why are we in this mess? Obama put the blame for this directly on the Bush-McCain economic strategy- a "worn dogma" that has failed |