What, specifically, is he proposing & would environmental hippies allow for more construction?

No one ever got rich over-spending or over leveraging themselves on a consistent basis…ever! Its what got us into it!!!

The only way out of this is to let the problem unfurl and reach equilibrium…the only thing Gov should be doing is making sure loop holes and injustices are addressed so that similar things don’t happen again. If that means a longer recession so be it..sure is better than the disappearance of this country and its principles.

Experts like Geithner, Greespan, and the likes are the creeps that got us into this…they sure can’t get us out…as usual only American people and ingenuity can do that…and reverance to the constitution (since heading this document is the only thing that has and will give the world and us confidence in this country’s future).

That’s what I do now because I have no idea at all about how to fix the state of finances in the world. I just hope that people with real world sensibilities take control. The thing is that I’ve been in “academia” much of my life; and the other thing is that I know when “academia” takes over solving problems, we’re working mostly on untested theory, not proven results. That is the reason, I fear, we’ve gone so astray recently–lots of theory, no real world experience.

I believe I am not really stating my feelings well here, just that my only sense of getting through this is to lie low myself.

Obama’s economic ignorance is showing, I’m afraid. He’s put tax increases for energy, healthcare, and who knows what else out there in the future. And giving our dim bulb Geithner powers over privately held companies that are almost certainly unconstitutional.

No investor in their right mind would invest one single penny in this unstable market with such an economic nitwit at the helm. And one with a penchant to scratch his redistributionist itch, as well.

How meek and shortsighted could you be? Is the magic unicorn expected to arrive at your house for a wondrous ride soon?

There’s a wave growing out on the horizon. It’s growing in strength with each and every day. And when it gets ready to break? Washington better be ready for the swell.

He is utterly opposed to trillions being dumped merely to prop up the bad assets of failed financial institutions.

Krugman wants more money spent, but only if it goes to an entirely different, productive place than where Obama is intent on sending it.

Leadership demands courage and bravado and I’ll take the reins. Whatever happens, happens. We don’t have that in either party. We’re desperate for real leadership in the country, the kind that isn’t looking at the polls or rely on focus groups, as if our future should depend on a popular survey, a gushing headline or the latest fad.

All we have are pretenders and slogans and party brands. And Barack Obama is the eiptome of all that, the wizard of all wizards swaying behind the curtain.

And that will be our undoing, sooner rather than later. Unless the American public, in unison, roars and says: enough already!

Bring us leadership, the kind that we can believe in and trust, the sort that respects our laws, our history and our Constitution.

Or tear the damn house down!

This is a pivotal moment. We cannot afford to go back to sleep.

I think I should bump up that Martin Wolf piece again. Larry added a very good paragraph as an update to my post, about Wolf’s ideas and why it was important to go big if one were going to do it right.