Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy
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President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters-presenting his ideas on restoring economic growth, job creation, financial responsibility, resolving the mortgage crisis, and pursuing a strategy to get us "back in the future business." He explains how we got into the current economic crisis, and offers specific recommendations on how we can put people back to work, increase bank lending and corporate investment, double our exports, restore our manufacturing base, and create new businesses. He supports President Obama's emphasis on green technology, saying that changing the way we produce and consume energy is the strategy most likely to spark a fast-growing economy while enhancing our national security.
Clinton also stresses that we need a strong private sector and a smart government working together to restore prosperity and progress, demonstrating that whenever we've given in to the temptation to blame government for all our problems, we've lost our ability to produce sustained economic growth and shared prosperity.
Clinton writes, "There is simply no evidence that we can succeed in the twenty-first century with an antigovernment strategy," based on "a philosophy grounded in 'you're on your own' rather than 'we're all in this together.' " He believes that conflict between government and the private sector has proved to be good politics but has produced bad policies, giving us a weak economy with not enough jobs, growing income inequality and poverty, and a decline in our competitive position. In the real world, cooperation works much better than conflict, and "Americans need victories in real life."
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Reviews for Back to Work
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Explains very clearly the views of expresident Bill Clinton on governance. Also his views on future of the US. Gave it 3 stars because I personally didn't agree with the proposals and also the fundamentals are not that clearly explained. I like to understand the fundamentals.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really enjoyed this book. I may not have agreed with all his ideas, but he really does have some good ones. I think maybe trying to make the world more environmentally friendly is a good way to create jobs and get this economy going.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Clinton makes a return to politics as an (elder?) statesman, making a fiery criticism of anti-government policies, and thus offering a wide set of new policy settings, varied and diverse, drawn from numerous fields. He claims Democratic failures in 2010 were partially due to inability to form a united front and present a coherent message to the voting populace - a not unreasonable assessment.
Conjures up memories of his old presidency. A distant dream from the current time - but far from being the end.
Some of these ideas seem brilliant, some vague, and a few (the trade agreements with Panama, S. Korea, etc.) are already in progress.
After all, why not just try everything, and see what sticks? - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Separates the truth from the slander and lies of the Republican Party. The charts and data are amazing. Everyone voting in the upcoming American presidential election needs to read this book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bill CLinton makes the case for a “right-sized” government. Our government has jobs to do that require certain resources and costs, and that too much or too little will adversely affect it. He discusses waste that comes from resource mismanagement and people playing politics.The book looks at government over the past few years, with a few glances into the past. He keeps returns to attack the small government movement, but he is not always partisan in his attacks nor in his praise. He always returns briefly to the subject of jobs on each issue he addresses.The last chapter addresses changes he believes would move our country forward.The book is interesting, but either won’t provide a lot of new information or the reader won’t be ready to accept it. I can’t say I’d recommend it to many people.