Clinton's 14 Proposals
One of the more memorable slogans from former President Bill Clinton’s ‘92 campaign was "It’s the economy stupid." In a recent publishing of his in Newsweek, he outlines fourteen of his own recommendations for simple initiatives to get the economy moving along again. Many of them center around energy conservation as a way of saving both businesses and consumers utility money while helping the environment. Others focus on incentives to business like speedy approvals, loans and job-training for unskilled laborers. I personally found it interesting that in #9 he lauds the TARP bailouts and stimulus that “saved us from a second Great Depression” and being directly responsible for saving jobs and industry … the interesting part being that it was a Bush Administration strategy that was lambasted pretty hard at the time.
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At least Bill balanced his budget by Occams
… the interesting part being that it was a Bush Administration strategy that was lambasted pretty hard at the time.
Well, History will remember Bill as the President who famously admitted that he made some mistakes. I remember him being on pretty good terms with the Bush Administration because I found that surprising and disappointing.
At the time many opposed the bailouts as a knee-jerk. Those who can see now that they worked, and say so, should be applauded.
W Bush was always quick to help big business so he was probably amenable to bailouts during his final months, but I thought those bailouts were mostly administered by Obama and criticized by his opponents on both sides. That is how it should be, because it was radical policy needing to be challenged.
I think his suggestions here are good, but don’t go far enough. He was the last president to balance his budget = no deficit. That was forced on him by a hostile congress, but still he achieved it. That makes him worth listening to now.