Edwards Disputes Bush Economic Claims
HANOVER, N.H.—Contrary to President Bush’s arguments in New York yesterday that the economy is going strong, the administration’s economic policies have been a big failure for millions of Americans, says Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. “They’re not working,” the former senator from North Carolina told U.S. News Edwards, interviewed while he was campaigning yesterday in New Hampshire, admitted that there has been economic growth but said there is also a “fundamental problem. The positive fruits of growth are not being shared by the American people at large.” He said that the benefits of Bush’s policies have mostly gone to “those with capital and a high level of education.” As for those who don’t have those two assets, “you struggle,” Edwards said. His prescription includes reducing the benefits in the tax structure for the wealthy, increasing benefits for the middle class and overhauling the nation’s “dysfunctional” healthcare system, which he said imposes huge costs on everyday Americans. “We want real opportunity for everybody,” Edwards said.
