I hope that the real strategy is revitalize the Middle Class. If it is we should support him all the way.

Bring back the jobs to our shores again.

I have a request that people use the share buttons on the bottom of posts and submit them to the large aggregator, ratings sites.

There is a lot of incredible writing on EP and one, New Deal Democrat, is writing for an economics literate audience.

So, getting these great analysis posts more readers, awareness they exist, I hope you all will help out.

Those are the little buttons at the bottom of each post.

"I've been self employed for over thrity years. That makes me closer to sixty than 50. I don't pay 1K for insurance."

I'm currently looking for self-employed insurance in Oregon. I'm having problems insuring my family of three for less than $1000/month at half your age. Got other problems such as pre-existing conditions though.

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Executive compensation is inversely proportional to morality and ethics.

I've been self employed for over thrity years. That makes me closer to sixty than 50. I don't pay 1K for insurance.

"It costs about 1K plus a month if you are self-employed to get a health plan in the U.S. I hope we get a nationwide health care."

You do know that retirement is not healthy for men. Look it up. They don't live as long. Two heart attacks? Must have been massive because I know a number of people that have had multiple heart attacks and still work. My uncle had his first heart attack in his early forties. He worked till he was 65 and did eventually die when he was in his seventies.

"Without all those Canadian Taxes and nationwide health care he could not have retired."

My posts are going to be more about the costs and associated problems. The moral aspect is left to others to banter about.

If we want to talk morality of plans I could have posted this:

"A spokeswoman for health minister George Smitherman said Wednesday the minister cannot intervene in the case of Sylvia de Vries, the Windsor woman who spent $60,000 in the U.S. for life-saving ovarian cancer surgery in October of 2006 and whose claim for compensation has been denied by OHIP.

She said the case of Suzanne Aucoin, the St. Catharines woman who was awarded $70,000 in 2007 after being treated with a cancer drug out of the county, was different."

Great post but folks need to realize. blog pieces are like newspaper articles. So you wouldn't put an apology to someone as the first line in a newspaper article right?

Also, you need to format your links. I showed how but raw links in blog posts is not good juju.

What preceded this crisis was unsustainable and can't be duplicated. To get back to that point would require the American consumer to get healthy again. That won't happen without good paying jobs (and those are going away), or another huge asset bubble (and that is increasingly unlikely).

What this article proves is that our political system is hopelessly broken and hasn't realized that the paradigm has shifted. I think this is true over most of the world.
That means two things: a) that we are going to waste precious resources trying to get back to a place that is gone forever, thus making this downturn much worse than it needs to be, and b) there are huge opportunities for those that recognize these facts and can find a way to take advantage of them.

This goes along with manufacturing.

Trade Reform (an organization really focused on U.S. manufacturing, see middle column), is pushing for new legislation.

Currency misalignment: I cannot say strongly enough how pivotal this issue is for trade and the economy.

When foreign nations do not allow their currencies to float in value, i.e. their currencies are continuously undervalued, they can maintain persistent trade surpluses on the backs of the rest of us, including the U.S. Currency misalignment is inconsistent with free trade. Free trade cannot exist unless currency values float.

Representatives Tim Ryan (D-OH-17) and Tim Murphy (R-PA-18), and Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Jim Bunning (R-TN), will introduce The Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act of 2009 soon. They are looking for co-sponsors. Nearly 200 Representatives have co-sponsored prior versions.

We saw from Geithner's backing off on China currency manipulation then Hillary Clinton begging China to buy more of our debt and the administration completely backing off on currency manipulation...

just how much China is pulling the U.S. strings and just how critical this is to U.S. trade too...

So, getting this to pass, will probably take us unwashed masses, the hordes, storming the capital, the corporate, China agenda has such a stronghold on our government.

But this is a major piece to revive U.S. manufacturing from the walking dead.

Isn't it going to slide again due to the shut down of all auto plants over the summer?

I'm so glad you focused in on the manufacturing index and called it as the leading economic indicator.

It's orphaned....anybody notice that, even by economists in a lot of ways....it's like it's psychological or sociological.

real transformational change doesn't start and end with one person. If we want change bad enough we will do what it takes to achieve that. Most of us are not ready for the real change that we that we heard from candidate Barack Obama.

Money talks in this country and until we are willing to counteract that with actions we will continue to have both political parties feeding from the trough of corporate lobbyists.