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[Ya-ta Boy]

Here's an opinion piece that looks forward to the future. It's got some interesting ideas in it. Any reactions? Additions?

The Gilded Age of George Bush ends; the era of reform with Barack Obama begins. The great realignment is at hand, with prospects rising for a Democratic president and Congress with expanded majorities to initiate a new era of historic patriotic reform.

http://thehill.com/brent-budowsky/the-next-new-deal-2008-10-14.html

[Tiger Beer]

There is a lot that can be done. Eight years of NO investment or business incentives or anything else into the United States. Everything went abroad into destroying and rebuilding other countries. The only thing Bush did domestically was encourage consumer spending and the housing bubble with strong encouragement to reduce interest rates to give Americans a false sense of security that the economy was actually running on something else. We all know what happened with that.

With a new party in office, I can see the U.S. looking at itself domestically again and what it needs to get the economy running again (even if in a recession).

The war in Iraq and Afghanistan will continue to bankrupt us, and I don't see any immediate changes there, and perhaps even more effort into Afghanistan is needed, and chasing down Osama Bin Ladin is needed (although financially VERY undesireable for the country, but perhaps sadly necessary).

However one of the big changes could be to stop building massive structures all over Iraq like the massive U.S. embassy on prime Baghdad real estate and all the other U.S. stuff all over the place over there. Perhaps if some of that cashflow going that way could be diverted to domestic interests, for example, financial incentives to get other energies on track. Obama has always been a strong nuclear energy supporter, and his home state of Illinois is one of the largest users of nuclear energy. It is an option, as are wind farms (heaven knows, half of the States have so much wind, if there were any encouragement there whatsoever, it would be massive. Solar energy as well. Also encouragement into other fuel sources such as what some entrpreneurs are doing in some states avoiding gas altogether (and this could be encouraged nationwide). Electronic cars could EASILY be a huge new market, with electric chargers being everywhere, and less money spent on fuel would give average people more spending to spend on things DOMESTICALLY and not oil from the Middle East.

I don't think ANYTHING will be done healthcare wise under Obama except making INSURANCE available to more people, but I suppose even that is better than entire large groups with NO insurance and paying the immense inflated prices. That entire system is so corrupt, and the only way to change that is to get rid of it altogether and start again. But sadly both candidates just talk about band-aids to the problem, and Obama's seems to be the bigger band-aid, but I don't see any surgery being done there under either potential administration.

Sorry, those were just my own ideas/thoughts, not entirely related to the posted article, but just along the same vein.

[sojourner1]

Tiger Beer, you are so correct. Well written post.

I can't understand why America doesn't invest nothing into it's country, people, and economy while sending all the wealth over seas. How does sending it all overseas help America?

The government failed the people and it's time the people take a stand.

[Kuros]

There's no money for it.

[mises]

[Ya-ta Boy]

That was, after all, Reagan's plan according to David Stockman his Budget Director or whatever he was. Spend the country so far into debt that social spending would be impossible. It was kind of like playing a game of chicken.

[Kuros]

[Gopher]

[Adventurer]

[Ya-ta Boy]

What I'm taking out of your post, Gopher, is that you think Obama might pull off a major political realignment.

[Gopher]

Adventurer: get out of the "either-B. Obama-or-GOP" chant. Sooner or later, you are going to have to define yourselves without referencing the Republicans. I am not asking you to vote for the Republicans when I critique B. Obama's supporters on this messageboard. There is nothing to decipher here.

And Ya-ta Boy: let me restate: I believe that B. Obama's core supporters, the chanting ones, are "high" on something.

[Adventurer]

[Gopher]

You are missing my point, Adventurer. I do not care how many parties exist or which one you consider the righteous one.

Are you telling me that you do not find it unreasonable but rather "normal" that B. Obama has just exceeded the existing JFK comparison and moved on to a new and improved FDR comparison -- while still in October?

This is even worse than J. McCain's repeatedly comparing himself to "Luke Skywalker" during the primaries in 2000. People need to get a grip.

[Adventurer]

[bacasper]