President Obama: Go big, long and global

[cal04]

By E.J. Dionne Jr.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama-go-big-long-and-global/2011/08/21/gIQABwJ8UJ_story.html

President Obama has only one option as he ponders a world economy teetering on the edge: He needs to go big, go long and go global.

Obama should not be constrained by what the Tea Party might allow subservient Republican leaders in Congress to do. He should state plainly, eloquently and in detail what he thinks needs to happen. Neither history nor the voters will be kind to him if he lets caution and political calculation get in the way.

Going big means immediate action to boost the economy, even though this will increase the short-term deficit. His proposals to continue the payroll tax cut, extend unemployment insurance and enact patent reform are good, but they are not enough.

The federal government needs to come to the aid of state and local governments again; the budget cuts they are being forced to make are precisely what the economy does not need now. We must find ways of boosting spending as quickly as possible on roads, bridges, transit and other building projects, including a new program to rehabilitate the nation’s dilapidated schools. And the administration needs to do far more to resolve the mortgage mess, which is holding back consumers.

[opihimoimoi]

1. I strongly concur.....I will help.....KnR

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[OHdem10]

2. Dionne is so absolutely correct on this one.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. The WH won't do ANYTHING that doesn't reek of phoney "bi-partisanship:"

Gotta make sure the Teabags get their 98%, morning noon and night. As for the Pro. Left? STFU and eat your damn peas already..

[gordianot]

4. A nice talk about all I can say. n/t