why isn t he being more ambitious about a infrastructure there s lots of things to put on the table. rather than simply talking about the middle class, we have to restore economic growth. why aren t we growing at 3.5%? steve ratner, wils perhaps ta while perhaps talking about the d d disparity it does show the president is connected about the reality many americans face. but how about these numbers i just reported on, the growing number of poor in america? there s a simple answer to richard richar richard s question it we re not growing at 3% because the government is cutting back. we had the sequestration. all of that has cut gdp growth this year by about 1.5%. so government is actually at the moment one of the biggest sources of why we re not having a full recovery. related to that in this question of income inequality look,