I go back to Dallas Fed Chairman Fisher’s comment on the destructive impact of fiscal policy. As bert mentioned Obamacare, minimum wage, EPA, and all the other choking regulation is what is killing growth. Business Insider had an article yesterday that this is the worst earnings growth performance in 50+ years. The politicians, ALL OF THEM, are killing the economy.
As a group they are, but that's meaningless given that the ultimate source of power in the American body politic is the American people. Some people and politicians are helping and others aren't, and the difference is in policy. The poison (imho) is class warfare, and that's a spiritual pathology borne of the age-old crimes of covetousness and envy. We prospered in the '80's in no small part because our leaders were saying that we don't help ourselves by harming others.