Economic recovery....

Please don't call me naive. I choose to listen to what our president says and give him the benefit of the doubt. I choose to look at the glass half full and trust him to tell us the truth. When Obama took office this country was crumbling, the steps he took will be argued for generations to come. Those naysayers who find it so hard to trust all I can say is LISTEN to what President Obamas' plans are, be realistic, these changes are not going to come easily or quickly. Democrats ALWAYS have to come into office and clean up economic disasters from Republican administrations. They have to restructure, rebuild from the ground up. The plans they have are long term sustainable plans. I like what President Obama says at this meeting. I trust him!

I found these comments from a person who viewed this video at ABCnews.com:

There is a clean energy jobs bill going to markup tomorrow-- a bill that would create 1.7 million jobs per $150 billion investment in the renewable energy sector, a sector we ought to be interested in leading globally. If clean-energy investments were to expand more quickly, overall job creation would increase correspondingly. (These job gains would be enough—on their own—to reduce the unemployment rate in today’s economy by about one full percentage point, and the figures account for possible jobs losses in conventional fossil fuel sectors of the U.S. economy as they would contract)

And what are the Republicans doing? Some are following Inhofe's lead and planning to boycott the markup.

Sigh.

Another comment from the same person:

I read a great column by Bruce Bartlett in Forbes on Friday. In it he provides a concise description of why government stimulus was necessary to battle this recession-- but the entire post is worth a read, even for those who are pretty far gone when it comes to economic ideology zealotry (Bartlett is a former Republican supply-side economist; now an independent)--

"The main differences between today's crisis and the Great Depression is that the deflationary pressure is less than a third of what it was in the 1930s and policymakers today reacted much more swiftly and more appropriately than they did after 1929. Those who think the government should have done nothing risked turning the current downturn into another Great Depression. Thankfully, their advice was ignored."