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“President Obama inherited a really large apartment building. It was all afire. He gathered all the fire trucks and hoses that he could and he put out the flames in at least half of the floors.

But the critics say, “look, there’s still fire, and so your policies must be wrong” and it turns out that these critics are the conservatives that actually lit the fire and they tried to keep the fire hoses from getting to the fired building.”

- President of the Economic Policy Institute, Larry Mischel in and excerpt from an Intelligence Squared Podcast about Obama’s Economic Policies.