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John Hancock boss rails against D.C. partisanship

By Todd Wallack

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 09, 2011

The head of Boston insurance giant John Hancock Financial Services yesterday blasted political leaders in Washington for battling one another, instead of working to slash the nation’s deficit and revive the ailing US economy. Jim Boyle, president of John Hancock, recommended Congress use the proposal by the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission as a blueprint to cut trillions of dollars from the deficit through a mixture of spending cuts, tax increases, and reductions in entitlement benefits.

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