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Bill Clinton: US must spend its way out of crisis
AP - 2 hours 32 minutes ago
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Former President Bill Clinton said Friday the U.S. government has no choice but to spend its way out of its worst economic crisis in decades.
With the U.S. economy in a recession that may worsen in the coming months, Clinton said President-elect Barack Obama must also shore up plummeting property values.
"The big risk now for America and the world is deflation, contraction, dropping asset prices. We have to stimulate the economy which means in the short-run, he has to take America into even more debt. There is no alternative," Clinton said at a lecture organized by the Sekhar Foundation, a philanthropic group that aims to foster an understanding of different cultures.
Obama "has to put a floor under the asset values and then use the government's spending ability to trigger economic activities," he said. "Then when we resume growth, we should adopt a more conservative and traditional budget policy."
The U.S. has not suffered through a prolonged bout of deflation since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
In response, Congress passed a $700 billion bailout fund for financial institutions to combat the economic crisis.
Obama, who takes office on Jan. 20, has called for a massive economic recovery bill to generate 2.5 million jobs during his first two years in office.
Clinton said that as mortgage foreclosures continue to rise to record levels, it would be "far cheaper (for the government) to rewrite mortgages and keep people in their homes."
It costs the government $250,000 for each mortgage foreclosure and with up to 3 million homes at risk next year, this could wipe out the effects of the bailout package, he warned.
Clinton added that he was "honored" by the appointment of his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as Obama's secretary of state.
"I think we have a good security and economic team. I think we'll do better," he added.
The former president, who was in Hong Kong Wednesday for a meeting of his foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, told the crowd of about 1,000 that he also met with Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
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