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McConnell: Debt Makes America Look Like Western Europe, Where Spending Cuts Sparked Recessions | ThinkProgress »

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reiterated Sunday that the automatic budget cuts that began taking effect March 1 were “modest” cuts that would keep the United States from turning into the Western European countries that have spent the last four years battling high unemployment and repeat recessions. “We have a $16 trillion national debt,” [...] Source Main page (current trends)
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