I was recently told by a Venture capitalist, in California, that business owners are sitting on $12 Trillion dollars, waiting for the one to leave office.

Living within your means is now a "lurch to the far right."

Okay, now I guess that we can get started-Tom Friedman has spoken. Everybody knows that he´s just about (save for One) the smartest man on earth.
Whew, I feel better now.

Solyndrageddon.........

The oil drilling firms in TX have no trouble raising capital. Nor do the pipe manufacturers. Nor is it a problem for companies that separate natural gas liquids from natural gas. Nor the companies putting in crackers to turn gas liquids into feedstocks for plastics. Nor for companies building rail cars to ship oil from ND and TX. I´d bet there is an inverse correlation between government involvement and capital availability.

DRILL!

How much longer can the NYT stay afloat - surely it will sink soon.

#1 If that is true they will still be sitting on it after 2016 because Hillary will be the next President and she will be just as bad if not worse than obama. The Democrats with the support of the Republicans will grant amnesty to all the illegals ensuring they will are be eligible to vote in 2016. With the illegal vote, voter fraud and media hyping that idiot Hillary as the world´s brightest women we´re screwed.

FTA: The president proposed a $1 billion investment to build a new National Network....

´Til you understand that "investment" and "spending" are totally different things, please don´t try "explaining" anything.

FTA: But they are being reinforced today by uncertainty and worry that we do not have our political house in order and, therefore, our tax, regulatory, pension and entitlement [systems]....

IOW, Tommie, though you haven´t really figgered it out, they´re not stoopit enough to bet large chunks of a company, the whole company even [circumstances may make that the case], not knowing where, how, how much, or how expensively gov´t is going to interfere with the economy, their industry[ies], their corporate incomes, and so on.

So yeah, they´re on the sidelines. At least that has some life expectancy.

Thank you #5 you made my day. Exactly.

Yep, lurch to the right. Just the culprit for NYT dummies. Choom doesn´t like to negotiate because whenever he really gets into a negotiation his libs feels he loses. Choom would rather dictate results and let the economy keep drifting while blaming it all on those terrible rightwingers.

To try to maintain whatever semblance of sanity I have left, I do not read/listen to Thomas Friedman or Paul - the former adviser to ENRON who received a Nobel Prize in ECONOMICS - Krugman.

Seriously. Is there ANYONE with any economic sense that can swallow their bilge?

OK Tom, but what if Obama´s real goal is to continue income redistribution with the purpose of making all Americans equal in their misery -- like Cubans.

FTA- - - - - - - - -

What to do? To be sure, the G.O.P.’s lurch to the far right has been more responsible for this paralysis than the Democrats, but Barack Obama is president. He wants to succeed.

This is the foolish and defensive speculation of a committed liberal.

There is no evidence to support this assertion.

I earned my B.S. in Business Administration from a major university in 1964. Business majors had to take 60 semester hours of business courses,and the other 60 hours had to be taken in non business subjects.
And as part of the business courses, every student had to take two courses in production management. That is, how to build stuff in a factory.
By the 1980s, production management disappeared from the curriculum. In place of it was corporate finance, money and banking, stuff related to making big bucks quickly, by manipulating money.
I doubt the president has any clue about setting up innovation centers at universities. It is just one more way to throw tax money at a preceived problem.

FTA: "First, new investments that would combine immediate jobs in infrastructure with some long-term growth-enablers like a massive build-out in the nation’s high-speed broadband capabilities."

What a bunch of gobbled-goop. TF doesn´t have a flipping clue as to what these words mean-he just thinks they sound smart. They mean zero, zip, nada. Oh, and we need todo this in 2013-right now. Chop chop.
What a maroon!

Investing in imaginary projects is exactly what Bernie Madoff told his suckers. Obama is the Bernie Madoff of politics.

I dont listen too, read, or take "Economic" advice from democrats, socialists, or communists. And I especially ignore Friedman, Krugman and Robert Reich

Friedman, as usual, lives in an alternative universe. Obama has no interest in growing the economy, reducing unemployment or getting investors off the sidelines. His goal is redistribution and making wealthier Americans poor for which he is rather good at. The New York Times will be looking for a government bailout with writers like Friedman. This piece could have been a high school kid´s essay.

I think the word "investment" should carry for liberals the same public revulsion as the use of the "N" word by anyone.

This is the same dope who thinks China´s authoritarian politics and their crony-fueled economy are just dandy.

There he goes again! ...Little Tommy ´Tucker´ Friedman, ´sings for his supper,´ as it were? He will probably show up yet again next week on one of his regular theatrical appearances on the Charlie Rose tax-funded pbs show.

Time to defund pbs/npr propaganda.