Another good post. As a senior in a major grounded in the ag-econ department I can only tell you I don't understand what he's trying to do. There is no way to make an economy recover as a whole by creating public sector jobs and more or less ignoring the public sector. It has been said that Bush's tax cuts didn't work, but if you look at the GDP within months of Bush taking office we were in a minor recession. His administration (or more accurately the Republican controlled legislative branch) cut taxes, the economy recovered and the GDP remained robust until July of 2008. I find this ironic as July 2008 is when hard-core campaigning for both parties truly began. What we need right now is tax cuts. Our small and large business owners alike need to have incentive to hire new labor. Small and large business alike should be allowed to fail and either rise out of the ashes a stronger company or disappear only to allow a new business to be created. Good post. The only part I disagree with you on is who's responsible for all this. I feel like Obama should shoulder some blame, but most should rest with the Senate and Congress.

Whatever happened to the idea of making a product that people want for exchange for goods or income?

Without domestic products produced here in the U.S. there is only one direction to go. And it is not up!