Would have indeed put us on a different path than the one we currently are on. But for a man that has his whole life surrounded himself with subversives, leftists, Communists, Marxists, Domestic Terrorists?WhatObama should have done from Day #1:
1. Issue an executive order to freeze all federal employment at existing levels and do not replace any non essential workers that retired, quit, or were fired.
2. Issue a freeze on ALL non essential buying at the federal level - order federal employees to use existing equipment, furnishings, decorations, supplies unless new ones were absolutely essential.
3. Issue an Executive Order that only essential government contracts will be issued and those will go to the lowest bidder who qualifies to the do the work whether union or not, whether at union wages or not.
4. Ask Congress to cancel the second half of the TARP funds that President Bush left for President Obama to use.
The above four measures would have saved billions, set a magnificent example, and would have put most of the American people squarely behind him.
5. Make an empassioned plea to Congress to make the Bush tax policy permanent for the next ten years or until a fair and impartial permanent flat tax could be put together and presented to the American people for comment and input. (This would have freed up up to six trilion in investment capital that American businesses are sitting on here at home and abroad.)
6. Push Congress to relax as many regulations as possible that are not essential to protect the life, liberty, or well being of the American citizens. (This would have encouraged American businesses to put those trillions in investment capital to work.)
7. Leave Obamacare on the shelf or assign it to professionals to work on to come up with the most effective, efficient, and economical way to reform the healthcare system.
8. Assure commerce and industry that Cap & Trade was out of play for the foreseeable future.
9. Appoint a professional Commission to look at Medicare, Social Security, and the federal portion of Medicaid and present him with the more effective, efficient, and economical ways to reform these programs with the least pain for those currently dependent on them.
10. Put the best financial minds in the country to work to fix the flaws and holes in the banking and mortgage industry.
If he had done this, I am confident that we would have begun pulling out of the recession within a few months and would be back to a booming economy by now. Some businesses would have failed and there would have been some intermittant pain, but that happened anyway. But he would have laid out the blueprint for a successful economy for a free people and would have gone down in history as one of America's greatest Presidents.
Unfortunately, his model seems to be a bigger, stronger, more intrusive, and ever more authoritarian government governing an ever more dependent and submissive people. And I don't think he CARES whether unemployment is high or the economy is hopelessly bogged down. I think the more we need the government to 'save us', the happier he is.
It just didn't fit his ideology. Many of us knew it from the begining and tried to warn others.
You're right that it would have put us on a different path, but that path would have been to Great Depression 2.0.