My Economic Plan for Obama (Revised)

If I could give President Obama any advice on the economy, it would have to do with a lot of different things, supervision of major corporations, employee equality, the medical system, education, the job market and energy efficiency.

  1. Give every major financial companies CEO/CFO/COO a government employed watcher, so as to prevent any mishaps such as Thorpe's renovation of his Merrill Lynch office. Who pays ~$1400 on a trash can? It's still going to fill up with trash.
  2. Yearly reports of the pay that each employee is paid must be given out to every employee in the United States to prevent events such as the Ledbetter vs. Goodyear case. If you aren't in on the know about this case, it was pretty much where some woman by the name of Ledbetter was given (anonymously) a note with all the paychecks of all of her fellow coworkers (most of which male) and hers. This note told her that she had been paid extensively less than her male counterparts that did the same exact work or less that she did.
  3. Socialize the medical system slowly but surely, so the citizens of America don't feel as pressured into not going to the Hospital for a bad flu. What I am trying to say here is, in other countries, people go to the doctor because they have the sniffles, and because of that they get cheap medicine for "free", meaning they paid for it with their taxes earlier. Here in America we delay the doctor's office until we are shaking hands with death in the hopes of suddenly getting better to save money on the medical bill, and then having to pay for really expensive medicine that is only given to the extremely ill.
  4. Lower the price of College and Universities, but make the requirements higher, so to support higher education on a lower budget. This will help the economy because it will make the workforce and the high ups more educated, which leads to better financial choices and hopefully some good innovation, something we lack and the Japanese exceed at (probably because of saturday school).
  5. Build up the industrial field like they did during WW2 to build more jobs, more equipment for the military, and build more good energy sources. Hopefully we can do this without the large back step on the atmosphere that an industrial buildup usually comes with.
  6. Require more energy efficient ways for companies to go about their business, because we all know we don't have as much oil and coal as we did in the early 20th century. A way that this could work is by government funding a company that makes solar panels in order to make more solar panels cheaper, then forcing the other big companies to convert their big, shiny and very well tinted windows on the 10 absurdly tall skyscraper office buildings they own into solar panels, fueling the entire building and possibly more.
(How's that for innovation.)
6+1/2. Another way to innovate energy, is to line any nuclear facility, wind turbine, and water wheel in solar panels, put the new solar wind turbines on the tops of mountains and skyscrapers, put solar water wheels all across every river that can propel a water wheel in the country, then start putting more nuclear facilities in the places that people don't live in like the Nevada desert or Alaska.


Mentor interview update:
I will be interviewing my mentor on Tuesday, in his
office, between 1 and 1:30, recording it with my MP3 player.
I am doing my backround research off of the blog that he shares with his wife at rebelheart.squarespace.com.

2 comments:

Diana Barlow said...

hey jacob!
What I like best about your blog is that you have various ideas that are unique and don't really relate to each other. I liked how your suggestions were supported by examples or ideas on how to fix it.

What I would do however to improve it would be to explain what happened concerning Thorpe's renovation of his Merrill Lynch office, or the Ledbetter vs. Goodyear case. Just a sentence or two of background information so that the reader is on the same page as you are, and end up with a better understanding of the point your trying to make.

But great ideas!!!

love ya humanibuddyy!!!

(:

Kevin said...

Jacob, I thought that you had some really great and inventive ideas in your list. I particularly liked the one about college admissions, since that is an idea that is totally new to me, and I can understand it's merit. Also, as an alternative to capping their salaries (which would make many people angry since we are supposed to live in a capitalistic society), I like the idea of having a government supervisor to make sure that the banks are spending their money correctly.

I would have liked to see more links, but aside from that, very good blog.

-Kevin