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WASHINGTON - The top lobbyist in Washington for American business warned in unusually stark terms on Wednesday that younger Americans will face diminished economic prospects in coming years unless the United States reins in spending on the elderly and improves its education system.
"I worry that for the first time in history,we're in a situation where America is taking from the young in order to support the old," Thomas Donohue,the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,said in a speech that laid out the powerful business group's agenda.
WASHINGTON - The top lobbyist in Washington for American business warned in unusually stark terms on Wednesday that younger Americans will face diminished economic prospects in coming years unless the United States reins in spending on the elderly and improves its education system.
"I worry that for the first time in history,we're in a situation where America is taking from the young in order to support the old," Thomas Donohue,the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,said in a speech that laid out the powerful business group's agenda.
