run problems-the stagnating middle-class incomes, soaring healthcare costs, the failure to invest in education, innovation, clean energy-we certainly inherited an economy with a number of economic problems." Obama wants to ease voter concern about unemployment and soaring U.S. budget deficits. He has called for a fundamental shift in the way the country operates by reforming borrow-and-spending habits of the previous decade in favor of savings, investment, and exports. The president said that to "create jobs and raise incomes for the middle class over the long run, we need to export more and borrow less from around the world, and we need to save more money and take on less debt here at home."
