Bucco,

I've read your last posts about Obama's leadership and your suggested tax revisions. I think it's futile to comment further on the question of leadership. It is so broad as to be entirely in the eye of the beholder. I will however again mention the survey of university professors who placed Obama 15th most effective of all Presidents. Call them anything less than objective - elitists, leftists, etc., but I give some credence to their 200+ year long view.
On the matter of taxes, I could not agree more that some changes should be made to entitlements, including Social Security. But my plan would reduce benefits by income level. I would not change the home mortgage deduction at the present time.
But would you answer these questions: Would you support across the board reductions in corporate income taxes, the current reductions in payroll taxes, an increase in capital gains taxes and making the Bush tax cuts 'permanent' on incomes of less than 500k? An elimination of farm subsidies except in cases of proven crop failure, elimination of other specific tax breaks to corporations, the initiation of more corporate incentives for research and development, and to hire additional workers, especially veterans, and even larger one-time incentives to return to domestic production?

There's more. But if this thread is still about jobs, please agree with me that the money necessary to create them must come from somewhere.