"We should be well into a robust economy by now..."

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. How, pray tell?

Unfortunately, he probably won't ever be asked to explain how he would have done things different but there are clearly some things that could have been done (i.e. more stimulus, public investment)- had there not been so much obstructionism from the Republicans- that could have improved the outlook. And I can't remember for the life of me what THEIR ideas were about how to fix things other than give the wealthy (more) tax cuts, cut spending, cut entitlements, bust unions, fire public employees, nearly cause a default on our debt, and, of course, massively increase military spending (for what I have no idea)- all negative actions with no potential for stimulative effect on the economy.

I think that their basic idea is to let corporations get EVERYTHING they want in terms of regulations, wages, benefits, tax breaks, subsidies, etc. and *maybe* they *might* increase their hiring or do.................something. Republicans are basically acting like corporations basically have our whole economy over a barrel.