bloody spaniard wrote:Brother Bill, two things...
First of all, the wealthy are more often than not using their entitlements & tax breaks to employ foreigners by moving their operations abroad. Secondly, a growing number of the self-employed are "employed by a poor person" (themselves) these days. Don't think Obama nor the hapless Republican dunces with the possible exception of Cain, Paul, & Gingrich have a clue on how to turn it around either.
Ok, I gots to go...
In reality, I don't believe that anyone can make the recession end all that much sooner. The economy can be tinkered with, for better or worse. Better could stretch the downturn out and spread it more widely- kind of like the difference between a set of stairs and a ramp-both leading to the same landing. Worse could make it much worse.
This recession will begin to end end when we stop pissing money away in Iraq and Afghanistan and stop turning everything into "me v. you", "us v. them" and "if you don't agree with my politics, then you are an idiot" behavior and thinking. -and the worldwide recession improves so that we can sell goods and services.
The only thing that I think could get us out of this more quickly would be a repeat of WW II or some other international disaster of a magnitude similar to WWII (if that is even possible anymore), where we amped up production of military and other goods to sell to our allies and then entered the War. This took a size-able portion of our work-force (now unemployed or under employed, and sent them overseas. The long-run benefit of this is that we aided and reconstructed Europe and Japan- and they became great trading partners for decades. Now, they don't need us anymore.
It is going to take at least another good five-years plus for there to be any opportunity for there to be any real, palpable difference in our economy.