The facts about America’s real fiscal condition is only now
slowly trickling out.  Theses facts are the basis for the
disappointment  expressed below by the Northwestern Chronicle
editors Charles Rollet, Dane Stier, Janice Janeczko, and Megan
Wood.  President Obama’s historic re-election this year is
disappointing. Disappointing because America has chosen another
four years of debt, deficits, and decline. Disappointing because
the gap between Obama’s rhetoric and his actions grows larger
every year. And most of all, disappointing because Obama’s
policies will lead to another four years of lackluster growth in
a recession that has been longer than any since the Great
Depression.  Obama is fundamentally a good man, and
a charismatic leader. But good people can be wrong, which is
what Obama is on most issues - particularly regarding the
economy. The recession we have just exited went on for far too
too long. Ronald Reagan’s pragmatic monetary and fiscal policies
in the early 1980s quickly led to renewed growth r