The No-Longer Endless Summers

``Journalist Robert Scheer hopes “Summers will have time to reflect on the dismal arc of his split tenure in government service. Thanks to the banking debacle he did so much to initiate back in the Clinton years, the nation now has more people living in poverty, 43.6 million of them, than ever in our history... Financial journalist Michael M. Thomas believes that Summers like a gunslinger hired to clean up a town did what he was hired to do arguing, “Summers is leaving because he made sure real reform was discussed — but not accomplished.''