John, while it may feel like 3 1/2 years, hell it feels like a decade to me, Obama has only been in office for 2 years and 9 months.

I think the concept revolves around people making and spending money. It was done in the 30's and is a low brow Reagan trickle down approach that actually impacts more people. Also the government doesn't do manufacturing, it can only deal with infrastructure. it's not a solution, only a temporary band aid sort of like what the New Deal was.

the artist? people don't buy art when they need bread or shelter.

no regulation, buyer beware, let me screw you cause I can and get away with it. please, give me an example of what you actually mean by this.

or anyone...

way to much talk radio, I heard this the other day also. The republicans want to privatize your social security based on the fluctuations of the market. if this were the case now those of us that depend on it would worse off. don't be fooled by thinking privatizing is the solution, you're gambling on money that your children may need to live on when they get old, just like we are.

I believe you're in error, the New Deal worked then and is working today.

Changing the President isn't going to fix the House and Senate.  Worse yet we've flushed the House pretty good in either direction twice over the last decade and it really doesn't seem to have gotten any better.

Ahhh, you don't want him, he was Governor of New Mexico, that's where I live.  He is a pretty good politician, if you know what I mean. 

I'm thinking Social Security here. it has helped millions upon millions of people over the last 60 years.

that's not the definition of "free market" that I saw.

A free-market economy is one within which all markets are unregulated by any parties other than market participants.

which seems pretty clear that it is a bad idea.

All I hear here is the same old REPUBLICON drivel. Let the job creators create! What a bunch of BULLSHIT.

The banksters and the hedge fund managers stole OUR MONEY AND THEY GOT AWAY WITH IT

Those are the jobs they created!

Standing in the que to collect a check that you can barely feed a family on.

Thank you Ronald Reagan and George W Bush!

8 years of letting the banksters and Wall Street steal our future and then

YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO BLAME THIS ON OBAMA!

Those Wall Street crooks should be rotting away in jail!

There hasn't been any any law passed by this administration that prevents business from investing in THIS COUNTRY.

What stops investment in this country and the heart and soul of this country is GREED.

The heart and soul of this country is the middle class but is is being destroyed.

The Koch Brothers, Citizens United, The Tea Party and The Republicons. Those are the the people who are the enemy. They lie. They sell themselves like whores. They are the enemy of the people because they care more about making profits then the well being of the people.

The Republicons care more about bringing down Barack Obama then taking care of the people of the United States.

You can say that you've lived here for 25 years and all that stuff but you aren't an American and you don't know what the real America is!

Long Live The Unions! Long Live Workers Rights! Power To The People!

Then .. Chasbo.. enjoy your grey house, in between two more grey houses, on your grey street, in a grey neighborhood.

With a big speaker at the end of the road, doing its very best to tell u whats best for you, and feeding you, and owning you.

The Great American Chinese Dream... ask 3.8 billion Chinese how they like it... they wont answer you for fear of being executed.

This is my side of the fence. The free side.

Well i'm over 66 so guess I'm safe

Boy I'd be a pretty smart guy if I had that figured out, wouldn't I?   Seriously though, and it sounds simple enough, we need to focus more on specifically producing goods and services to ship overseas, and/or producing price-competitive items domestically that can replace imports.  Would also be helpful to stop shipping employment overseas.  Huge argument would be over government's role in that.  We've created huge sectors of our economy that basically are non-productive in terms of generating income to "our family's house".

A favorite little example of this is a story I just saw on the news this week.  A guy, a very "normal" down-to-Earth guy, in Georgia started a factory.  Georgia is wood-rich.  The Chinese are wood-poor and chopstick-poor.  This guy's little factory of I think about 100 people builds chopsticks and sends them to China.  I laughed out loud when I saw that, I think it's friggin' brilliant.

We need to do things like that.  Times a million.

I'll bet you could make a wicked-ass chopstick   Hmm, maybe if nothing else you and the guy from Georgia could get together and we could get a little more cash coming in.