Jamie Dimon, the chairman and chief executive officer of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., is so frustrated with some of the nation’s ailments, his prescription is stunningly blunt: “America has got to get its act together.”
“I could go on and on and make a list of all the things that have slowed us down and held us back and affected jobs and wages,” he said, CNBC reported. “I think America has got to get its act together about a bunch of stuff, not just one.”
CNBC reported that Dimon implored the public to focus on “three really bad facts” that are limiting growth for the U.S. economy:
Some 70 percent of young men are ineligible for military service “because of either education — they can’t read or write — or health, mostly obesity and diabetes. That’s an unbelievable number,” Dimon said, citing a Pentagon study. “Half the kids in inner
