The nation doesn't put much emphasis on economic growth. It should. The expansion of the economy in the form of productivity is the single-greatest thing that can happen to alleviate our debt situation, manage the entitlement problem and raise people's standards of living.
The greatest failure of the Obama presidency - and for sure you have a long list to pick from - was the failure to average better than 2.0 percent annualized GDP growth. It was the worst post-recession economic performance since before the Great Depression. The usual snapback you get from a recession simply never materialized as the Democrats choked off growth with punitive taxes, regulations and artifically inflated labor costs.
