[Conservative til I die]

Wait a sec, how can you have a bill for open trade as well as for fair trade. It's one or the other. As to eliminating or lowering taxes on corporations, I'm all for it.

What I was going to originally say was if the president could do anything to improve the economy and unemployment rates, don't you think he would have by now???? And if he could, it would be as easy as snapping his fingers, by definition.

But really, all a President can do is remove many disincentives for corporations to hire and invest, and do the same for individuals. And the only way he can do that really is to lower the federal interest rate (which he can;t do anyway), cut personal income tax, and cut certain corporate taxes. All three have happened. On a state and local level, which the POTUS has no jurisdiction over, mayors and governors can create a better climate for businesses. That's what my city is doing, and it's hittting a real Rennaisance, in spite of the bad economy (It's also why houses that were selling for $250,000 -a decent house in my neck of the woods in NY- are up to around $375,000 in the space of a couple of years.

[samuel_adams_us]

So you are saying the president can't suggest to congress to come up with a way to level the playing field? Tariffs to create more fair trade, where people in different economies are competing on a level playing field? Geez, were the founding fathers completely wrong when they suggested this was possible?

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

Here are some reasonable steps the government could take that were presented by harpseal in another thread on the economy:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/961608/posts?page=15#15