The stimulus plan that is needed is for the long term, the Bush tax cuts for the yacht club crowd needs to be repealed immediately, minimum wage needs to increase to at least $15 an hour. The war in Iraq must end, money from the war must be diverted to infrastructure, we need to have protectionist tariffs to protect us from being flooded by foreign imports, we must also change from a globalist economy to a more nationalist economy, national companies that move their headquarters and manufacturing to foreign countries she have substantial financial penalties levied against them. Also profit sharing for employees should be mandatory for companies, laws should be passed by state and federal legislatures that protect retirement and health packages to prevent loss of health coverage until universal healthcare its ratified and becomes the law of the land.

There are more technical policies I can go into at a later date but at least this is a beginning step that the actual layperson can understand. Infrastructure is perhaps the most important, I say that because it is falling apart as of this typing, our roads and our rapid transit is rapidly becoming similar to that of a third world nation, our public school system much like President Bush has become a national ignominy, 34% of our public school system has to make a choice with their energy, heat or use it for the school computer classes, many students having to wear their overcoats in classes, many liberal arts classes canceled, many public school buildings that are not up to code, teacher’s that are embarrassingly underpaid.

Libraries that are under funded and understaffed and are not able to afford the latest technological advances unable to afford computers, new books, additional staff etc. Our streets and highways, interstates etc desperately need modernization, the same goes for our rapid transit. Our air traffic system is dangerously in need of a major technological overhaul.

Much of what I have mentioned is just the tip of the iceberg of what needs to be done. Investing in our nation’s infrastructure long term will pay dividends for future generations and reinvigorate our nation’s economy, if we invest in guns, bombs, and war that will not help our economic growth whatsoever.
It’s a vision like this that I would hope our democratic candidates would espouse as candidates and enact once elected. Lets not repeat the mistakes and failure of the Bush administration