Ten Obama administration policies that stabilized the economy, are helping the recovery and will contribute to the long-term health of the economy
- The Stimulus
- Health care reform
- Saving the auto industry
- Sustainability partnership
- Appointing Elizabeth Warren to establish the consumer bureau
- Shareholders rules on executive pay
- Grants for renewable energy
- New regulations on debit card fees and credit cards
- Scientific Integrity Directive (America COMPETES Act)
- Focus on exports
Austan Goolsbee made a good point on
This Week (Jan. 2):
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WHEN ASKED HOW TO GIVE THE ECONOMY A PUSH IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, GOOLSBEE SAID: "I think the focus has got to be on investment, on exports, and on innovation. And that's...rather than on excessive consumption and housing investment, as it was in the last boom. And I think the president's firmly in that...planted in that camp, and we're going to grow our way out of this."
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Ten things that will speed the recovery and level the playing field for American workers.
- Stimulate job creation
- Fix the mortgage situation
- End corporate welfare (subsidies for polluting industries and tax breaks for outsourcing jobs to other countries)
- Invest in America's infrastructure
- Complete withdrawal from Iraq and end the Afghanistan war
- Address climate change
- Increase the federal revenue stream, ending tax cuts for the rich and raising the cap for payroll taxes.
- Increase the minimum wage
- Fix trade policies
- Fix the tax code