Pre-eminent political/economic author George Gilder thinks “fiscal cliff” is the wrong term to describe what the country faces. It’s actually a “fiscal swamp,” and it’s President Barack Obama who has filled that swamp, Gilder tells Newsmax TV in an exclusive interview.
As for the morass, “we’re in a fiscal swamp today that leads into the future as long as you can see, and the cause of the fiscal swamp is mainly a whole series of anti-enterprise policies by Obama,” Gilder says. That includes “anti-energy policies, anti-defense policies, anti-American policies,” he adds.
“People actually imagine they can negotiate with him. Having high hopes for the second Obama administration is like having great expectations for a second date with Ted Bundy. I mean, it’s just not going to work out.”