[Col. Bob]

I'd love to get the Freeper's take on this article. Consider the source.

[The Iceman Cometh]

Well, if you are Arnold Schwarzeneger, the answer is to massively increase taxes. That should really help the economy. <end of sarcasm, please resume your normal Free Republic day.

[joe fonebone]

"And finally, despite the recession, we do not have the luxury of delaying the fight against global warming. "
they lost me right here....

[gpapa]

Fire Pelosi, Reid and BHO.

[scory]

Apparently the answer is massive government spending coupled with a “green” agenda and increases in food stamp subsidies and unemployment benefits.

I am glad to see that bit about food stamps and unemployment benefits. I suspect a lot of us are going to be needing these over the next 4 years.

[hosepipe]

[ How to End the Recession ]

Thats a easy question.. DON'T elect a democrat as President...

Ugh.. WHat?... Oh! yeah... NEVERMIND.. Next....

[FreedomPoster]

So-called “Green energy” is a chimera as a solution to our economic problems. There’s a reason it is not economic without massive gov’t subsidies. This should clue everyone in as to how much it can help the economy on its own.

The collective writing and editorial team of The Nation wouldn’t know a solution to an economic problem if it slapped them in the face. And I chose the word “collective” carefully.

[Rapscallion]

Obama will fix it...........

[Glenn]

It’s looking more and more like our transit union (Allegheny County, PA) is going to strike December 1st. They just don’t want to give up the sweetness that is a government payday. But they vote Democrat and that’s all that really matters.

[KriegerGeist]

Implementation of the FairTax would end thhe recession rapidly. I read both books. They have the answers to why business can’t do business and how to reverse that trend. Taxing “big oil” or ‘corporations that move overseas’ won’t do it. The opposite will.

[hunter112]

Cheer on the recession during the campaign, then try to pull it out of the nosedive once you've won.

Welcome to "governing", President Zero, you'll be doing it without my help or cooperation. Bring the whole thing down to punish the stupid.

[LFOD]

Simple answer(s)...
HEY WASHINGTON!!! and all other levels of unelected bureaucratic leeches...
GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR POCKETS!!!!!
Government is NOT a growth industry.

There will come a time (and soon) when these take-it-for-granted parasites will come to a hard realization that we no longer have spare change to be forcibly taken.
Go ahead and confiscate our retirement and 401k’s and watch how fast “hope and change” takes root.

[DannyTN]

• Build McCains 42 Nuclear Plants. (Fiscal Stimulus, Energy Independence, Green)
• Build Huckabee's Super Highway up the West Coast (Fiscal Stimulus)
• Fund DARPA like contests for the most fuel efficient cars and the safest cars.
• Drill Baby Drill (Energy Independence, Lowers Energy Cost)
• Restore and Revise Glass Steagall. Separate Banking from Investing Banking to help restore consumer confidence.
• Raise bank reserve rates to help restore confidence in banking
• Insure that global competitors competing for banking in the U.S., play by the same rules, or there will be pressure to make banking risky again.
• Consider very targeted tarrifs or laws that bring key industries back to the U.S. and in the process hurt enemies not frieds. (There is danger here of killing global trade which magnified the great depression.)
• Consider sending the illegals home to reduce unemployment.

[raisetheroof]

Seems to me that the left’s idea of ending the recession is to turn it into a depression, and then remedy it with green jobs as this century’s version of the WPA.