You bring up good points. Implicit in what you say is that the president may have already missed his window of opportunity. It didn't help that he went around for almost two years saying that our economy was fine. He failed to diagnose what was wrong with our economy. We are in a historically deep growth recession, rather than the statistically mild recession incumbent politicians like to cite. Business spending has gone through a major decline, while consumer spending has held up relatively well, yet it's consumer spending that the president is trying to promote. He's made other misdiagnoses too numerous to mention as well, but I've listed the major ones.
Although I think the prez is a good man, there is no way in hell this will happen. Short of that, what are the options?
While real change could take a while to filter through the economy, a demonstration that the president sees the light could have an immediate psychological impact on businesses and investors. What he says, and where he says it is important. For instance, had he given his last speech at Dell rather than some effing truck stop, the reaction would have been a lot better.
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He needs to make a definitive economic analysis and be a teacher so the everyone knows exactly what's happening. He absolutely must present the analysis in the Lost Or Unrecognized Multi-National Economic Principles And Slavery piece.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
The President can demand that Congress stop importing foreigners to take American jobs! It does not take much brains to figure this out. If all the foreigners were sent home tomorrow there would be virtually NO UNEMPLOYMENT. So the President and Congress can DO plenty. Only guess what - they DO NOT WANT TO ANYTHING that would truly correct the unemployment problem!!!