WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday the deepening American recession could stretch years into the future if Congress fails to act quickly on his call to pump hundreds of billions of federal dollars into the nation's economy.
The speech to be delivered at George Mason University in Virginia, outside the U.S. capital, marked the fourth day running that Obama has urged fast action on huge spending in response to the worst U.S. economic slide since the 1930s Great Depression. It was his first appearance directly aimed at taxpayers and the highest-profile pitch for the giant spending plan.
"I don't believe it's too late to change course, but it will be if we don't take dramatic action as soon as possible," Obama
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