Martin Gross: Obama Leading U.S. to Fiscal 'Suicide'

09-02-2009 • Newsmax

Social scientist and New York Times best-selling author Martin L. Gross tells Newsmax that the U.S. is heading for "national suicide" due to overspending and high taxes. Gross has testified before six Congressional committees on government inefficiency and is the author of the new book "National Suicide: How Washington Is Destroying the American Dream from A to Z." Gross told Newsmax.TV's Kathleen Walter about the basic premise of his book. See Video: Martin Gross talks about the dangerous combination of high taxes and overspending leading to “National Suicide” - Click Here Now "The federal government's major evil is basically its size and the politicians who run it ineffectively," said Gross, who has also been a syndicated newspaper columnist. "Now the Democrats have moved ahead in spending so vigorously and so aggressively that we're leaning toward national suicide. "The administration of the government is pitiful.