SynopsisBy the time Barack Obama leaves office, he will have increased the national debt by more than every single president before him, combined Is this really the America we want our children to inherit? That's the question put forth by author Merlyn Vandervort in The Lost Decade , in which he warns Americans that "big government" policies are sending America "into a pending death spiral." Vandervort, a businessman who weathered the Great Recession, makes his case that big government and failure of leadership have weakened America's standing on the world stage and at home. From the time the Democrats took control of the House and Senate in January 2007 until the time Barack Obama leaves office in January 2017, America will have lost an entire decade, in a failed experiment of progressive government. The national debt has more than doubled under Obama, and spending continues to skyrocket There is no justice for America and no accountability in our government. Dishonesty, corruption, and incompetence have plagued the Obama Administration from one scandal after another-from the Benghazi cover-up to the IRS and VA scandals. Obama is completely disengaged, and his failed policies have damaged our country and put America in jeopardy. "I wrote this book for my kids, and their generation; because this is not the America I grew up in, and it certainly isn't the country I want my children and grandchildren to inherit," Vandervort writes. "America needs open her eyes; and change the disastrous course we are on ", By the time Barack Obama leaves office, he will have increased the national debt by more than every single president before him, combined! Is this really the America we want our children to inherit? That's the question put forth by author Merlyn Vandervort in The Lost Decade , in which he warns Americans that "big government" policies are sending America "into a pending death spiral." Vandervort, a businessman who weathered the Great Recession, makes his case that big government and failure of leadership have weakened America's standing on the world stage and at home. From the time the Democrats took control of the House and Senate in January 2007 until the time Barack Obama leaves office in January 2017, America will have lost an entire decade, in a failed experiment of progressive government. The national debt has more than doubled under Obama, and spending continues to skyrocket! There is no justice for America and no accountability in our government. Dishonesty, corruption, and incompetence have plagued the Obama Administration from one scandal after another-from the Benghazi cover-up to the IRS and VA scandals. Obama is completely disengaged, and his failed policies have damaged our country and put America in jeopardy. "I wrote this book for my kids, and their generation; because this is not the America I grew up in, and it certainly isn't the country I want my children and grandchildren to inherit," Vandervort writes. "America needs open her eyes; and change the disastrous course we are on!"