todd buchholz who says u.s. president barack obama doesn't care enough about the country's deficit and debt problems. with reese todd buchholz a former director of economic policy at the white house he was one of the first u.s. economist to forecast the two thousand and one slowdown in the u.s. the two thousand and eight pop in commodity prices and the dell rate of the u.s. debt rating thank you very much for joining me today you're welcome let's start with your latest book rush why you need and love the place you argue they are that competition is the one thing to keep us going and from you revealed a problem that exists right now in the society it's the reason the lack of desire to fight for anything to fight for a good job a good education is that three d. cell we've had twenty years of focusing on self-esteem trying to make kids feel better about themselves and it didn't matter how they did on tests the test scores didn't matter what they knew or what they achieved the whole point was it didn't matter what the important thing was to feel good about yourself so in washington d.c. for instance they asked the