* The Stimulus: Which many pundits and leading economists accredit with preventing another Great Depression.
*Health Care Reform: While this hasn't gone far enough, it is a starting point.
* Financial Regulatory Reform:
* Protection of wage discrimination against women.
* A crackdown on the tobacco industry.
* Saving the American Auto Industry: Granted they created their own problems, but can you imagine what unemployment would be like if action was not taken?
* Credit Card Reform: I believe more needs to be done to protect citizens from these criminals that make organized crime look like amateur loan sharks.
* Reforming the Student Loan Program: A beginning in the actions needed to address the decline in America's educational system, action that the President and many are willing to take.
* Extension of unemployment benefits: Can you imagine the added pain and suffering that our neighbors, friends and countrymen would be enduring without this?
While many of these actions fail to live up to the expectations of the left, we have to remember how Congress works. Considering the unified actions from Republicans (I suspect they share one brain, Glenn Beck's) it is a miracle that any of the above actions were accomplished. While they may not meet my hopes and dreams, they are a starting place upon which we can build a better America.
I will only focus on two items from Michael Moore's "Five Ways the Democrats Can Avoid a Catastrophe and Pull Off the Mother of all Upsets." www.micahelmoore.com .
The Democrats should be out campaigning in full force on promoting a moratorium on family housing foreclosures. In fact a Presidential order enforcing this would go a long way towards improving the Democrat's chances on the 2 of November. Now, bar none, the number one thing I happen to think should be done and number four on Mr. Moore's list is to create a WPA.
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