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.
I thought Dell does most of its manufacturing in China, Malaysia, etc?
"Competitiveness demands that the new, more global Boeing Co. share its work and its wealth with workers around the world, the company's highest-ranking Pacific Northwest executive said Tuesday in Tacoma. Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, said Boeing can't act like British colonialists extracting wealth from other countries and exporting it all back home...
Statements like this from business leaders are what give me the willies.
It seems to this layman that we about to undergo some historic, if not hystrionic times ahead.
Reagan was the last "America First" leader this country had, we are following the path of Great Britain and will suffer a similar fate. :^(