(CNN) — Phil Gramm, a top adviser to Sen. John McCain, on Thursday stood by his comment that the country is in a “mental recession,” and said he was trying to say the nation’s leaders, not its people, were “whiners.”

HKO Comments – he is taking a lot of heat for this. In my opinion he is dead on. Our leaders spend more time bitching and blaming than leading and solving.

While gas and food prices are hurting low income consumers, the economy is not doing nearly as bad as the reporting insinuates. Unemployment, while up, is still low. Anybody who is hiring today knows this.

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