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As economic pressures grind away at American families, one presidential candidate offers an unusual view on what ails the country: It is not simply a failure of fiscal policy, he says, but a blindness to the nation's true wealth. The gross national product is a misleading barometer, he says, because it "does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages."

As economic pressures grind away at American families, one presidential candidate offers an unusual view on what ails the country: It is not simply a failure of fiscal policy, he says, but a blindness to the nation's true wealth. The gross national product is a misleading barometer, he says, because it "does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages."