Pri: I do NOT hate Obama. To the contrary, and on a personal level, I think he’s a likeable cat. He’s just in over his head is all. Same as that frat boy Dubya was in over his.
Pointing out Obama’s inadequacies does NOT count as “hate”, by the way. It’s nothing more than pointing to the obvious.
As to your LOL, let’s stick with the facts, pri, and remember that Obama had BOTH houses of Congress and HUGE political capital when he began on healthcare. He squandered this opportunity badly and that is readily admitted to by many on the liberal-left. The fact that he did NOT lead on this issue, instead choosing to delegate this to Congress, backfired badly and resulted in the muddled mess that Obamacare ultimately became. Thse are all FACTS and NOT “hating”.
On jobs: The stimulus package was good in theory and absolutely hamstrung in delivery. The “shovel-ready” jobs weren’t shovel-ready (and Obama himself made THAT particular quote), the funds that went to city and state government were used to pay down debt and NOT hire new employees (thus not delivering the promised multiplier effect) and the overall effect was muted by the fact that the economy was in far worse straits than the administration realized (and, no, I’m not blaming that on the administration, they WERE working with incomplete data).
An effective jobs bill would be tied to tax reform and meaningful incentives, i.e. those that get businesses, especially small businesses, to re-invest and, more importantly, hire. I like Robert Reich’s idea about imposing a “severance tax” on those American businesses that outsource. I’ve openly advocated for years, on this board, that we need a WPA-type organization and a serious industrial policy (not this green-energy boondoggle bullshit).
I’d go strong on re-building America’s nuke program, in that it would create a HUGE multiplier effect, especially among Heavy/Civil Engineering disciplines and high-wage, high-skilled blue collar workers. You put a dozen nuke generating stations on fast track approval, including DOE loan supports, and you’d see a re-emergence of American Heavy Industry.
I’d significantly increase R&D spending, and in conjunction with an American Industrial Policy (similar to what we had in WWII and during the Cold War). Don’t let the government pick winners, allow successful R&D to create market drivers and then support those market drivers with incentives to Build American, Stay American and Sell American.
While I’d love to see Huntsman mount a serious challenge, it ain’t gonna happen. I’d vote for Perry as the “better than Obama” candidate. Yeah, he is badly flawed, but so was Reagan. However, when you compared him to Carter…
This country needs a dose of someone putting a boot up our ass. You know, like in the Army. Speaking of the Army, what, exactly, did you do in the Army? You seem to get rather upset and play the “hater” card whenever someone raises their voice. Wasn’t that an issue when the SFC started yelling at you?
