Okay genuises.. what would you do?

[Peacetrain]

I am being sarcastic there, don't take offense. :hi:

BUT

I would be damned if I would know what to do with the mess we handed the administration? They seem to be trying to sort it out the best they can, and every hole they plug, two new ones open up.

If there was just one issue or problem to deal with, but there are wars, terrorism, global warming, a failing economy.. and so forth and so on.

So, to those who apparently know more than me, where would you start, and what would you do, when the dam started leaking?

Not everything can be addressed with the same all out force at the same time.

What do we focus on, and what has to wait till we plug the first hole?

Before you blast me with..HE SIGNED UP FOR IT..I know that, but again, all things can not be addressed at the same time, with the same intensity.

My first thought is stabilize the economoy..

[Skink]

1. Nationalize the banks first.

could have already been done.

[babylonsister]

3. Once they are nationalized, who runs them? nt

[TahitiNut]

5. Fire the executives and assign the bank to a college or university as a class project.

:dunce:

[babylonsister]

6. Perfect solution!

:rofl:

[Marie26]

8. Or at least reinstitute the Glass-Stegall Act

That should be the FIRST thing Obama does, to make sure that the banks don't gamble away the bailout money the same way they gambled away their own money. Instead, the US handed over the money to the banks w/o doing a single thing to prevent them from throwing it away again speculating on "exotic" investments. And don't say it couldn't be done. FDR passed the Glass-Stegall Act during his first 100 days; Obama could do the same. The silence on this issue is deafening.

[bdamomma]

2. the economy really needs to be kick started again.

and the bush administration to be arrested, I guess I can dream on.

[rurallib]

4. first stop the bleeding

which is what they are trying to do now.
2) Reset the economy to a demand side economy (that is the purpose of the stimulus)
3) Arrest and prosecute those who caused this to happen. Plus have an independent study to understand what happened.

[LiberalEsto]

7. Global warming/climate change

If we don't deal with that, everything else becomes moot.

We need a new Works Progress Administration (WPA) to get out there and start planting trees, building renewable energy devices, and retrofitting homes and businesses for reduced energy use like there's no tomorrow. Because there might not be a tomorrow otherwise.

We need more engineers, scientists and other researchers to come up with more ways to reduce global pollution, including carbon emissions.

We need people to come up with ways to make and distribute pollution control and energy-saving devices worldwide. We will need financial experts to find ways to make these things affordable for everyone.

We need to recruit and train more people to deal with climate catastrophes.

We need writers and marketing people to create instructions and educational materials so that people everywhere will understand what needs to be done, and do it. We will need artists to draw diagrams and illustrations.

Before you know it, people would be working again, this time with a sense of mission.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. First, admit that the measures taken aren't going to "solve" anything.

All of the problems cited can, at best, be eased through international cooperation. That will require that our government will have to give up the idea of American exceptionalism.

The economy isn't going to be "solved" and returned to the way it was. We're broke and getting more broke and continued borrowing will eventually bankrupt the country. Turning on the printing presses to finance our debt, which is what Geithner is now doing, only speeds up the process.

The "wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan are flops. We lost. Get out. Get over it and cut down substantially a bloated and unnecessary "defense" budget.

Tell the American people, candidly, that the good old days of empire are over and they ain't coming back.

[L. Coyote]

10. What to do depends on who you are, and what gets done depends on

what everyone does.

First, ask, "What is everyone doing?" if you are the chief.

A good metaphor is the Fargo flood.
Our larger financial disaster does not have the benefits of
so defined a water level and certainty of cresting and forecast,
but response, "what you do" in the face of community situations,
succeeds or fails on the sum of what "everyone" does.

Everyone has a task. Justice goes forward on on its front,
FEMA works on its front, the Pentagon stays open 24/7/365,
Congress critters clutter airways. ... Everyone does something.

"What's the sum?"

[Turbineguy]

11. The destructive forces in America

will need to be reversed. In the mean time, we need to treat the symptoms as best we can.