Americans have gone from a generally happy time in the 1990s to disappointment. We pose the same question Reagan asked: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Relatively few, we think, would answer that with “yes.” It’s definitely time for a fresh start.
If a CEO took his company from record revenues to record debts, then bogged down his employees in a messy, costly project with no easy way out, shareholders would have no choice but to fire him. Given that, America’s shareholders — voters — need to hire a new CEO on Nov. 2.
October 26, 2004 5:41 AM
