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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Reseña de Publisher's Weekly

Bill Clinton may be a busier man these days than he was during his time in office. In this compelling ode to all things American, Clinton offers his take on what's gone wrong in the United States over the past 30 years-everything from the lack of jobs to the mortgage crisis-and how to fix these ills. As the former president so elegantly puts it, "I want American Dream growth." Clinton's narrative tone is that of a seasoned orator, and his inherent ability to command an audience is undiminished. His voice bears a certain weight and wisdom that can only develop after a full life spent on the campaign trail and in the White House. Clinton's America is one that is not as doomed as some would make it out to be, and, as he points out early on, we're all in this together. A Knopf hardcover. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Kirkus Review

Giving, 2007, etc.) writes that he had conceived this book but then shelved it several times "because politics is no longer the center of my working life"--and, he continues, "I don't just want to add another stone to the Democratic side of the partisan scale." An apolitical, nonpartisan Clinton? Fat chance, and here, with considerable appetite, he tears into the antigovernment opposition, the ones who assert, with Ronald Reagan, that government is part of the problem, if not the problem. Nonsense, Clinton argues: Government has many roles, not least an economic one in assuring that the political and social conditions are fitting to a robust economy. Besides, he writes, despite what that opposition is saying, the recent banking meltdown happened because the banks were overleveraged. The government helped avert a full-scale depression, and the stimulus helped "put a floor under the collapse and begin the recovery." The opposition--he keeps returning to it--may appear to be antigovernment, but it's really antitax and antiregulation, two things that simply don't make sense in the current economic climate. In good political form, Clinton begins with generalities about what a good country this could be and what's wrong with it--all those antigovernment talking heads, for one thing, who "already have the answers, and the fact that the evidence doesn't support them is irrelevant." Happily, though, he moves on to pointed specifics, some honed in policy-wonkish detail--on, for example, relaxing mortgage debt, developing a renewable energy regime and getting small businesses into the exporting game ("This is what Germany does"). Vintage Clinton, with provocative if generally evenhanded solutions to the economic crisis and political stalemate plaguing the country.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Reseña de Booklist

*Starred Review* Where's Bill Clinton when you need him? After all, he left the country with a budget surplus, kept taxes under 10 percent of GDP, and kept spending under 19 percent. Well, he's right here in the pages of this book, and in clear yet thoughtful language, he explains not only how we got into this financial mess but how we can get out of it. Unlike those still in the political ring, he has no problem with stating his views: global climate change is here, and much of it is man-made. Without dealing with entitlements, we will never sustain economic growth. Government is an important part of the recovery, and those who want starve it into oblivion have no idea what they're talking about. In fact, one of the most interesting parts of the book is Clinton's analysis of how the country became so enamored with the idea that government is bad, a notion that he rebuts forcefully. At the heart of the book is Clinton's step-by-step, commonsensical plan for climbing out of the the financial quagmire and getting the country back to work. For those who really want to argue solutions, not simply throw around invectives, this is a great place to start.--Cooper, Ilene Copyright 2010 Booklist

Library Journal Review

Clinton has done the impossible: created a book on political economics for people who hate political economics. Despite occasional lapses into such wonky terms as agricultural derivatives, our former President tackles the many problems facing America today with some creative solutions. He lucidly states the reasons why the antigovernment movement is not the direction America should follow if it wants to change successfully and explains how responsible government can tackle such thorny subjects as the housing crisis, the ever-increasing deficit, and the stagnant job market. VERDICT Clinton does an admirable job narrating, and although he won't convince everyone that his solutions would work, he gives people much to think about. This audiobook belongs in every public and academic library. ["Political junkies and concerned citizens, willing to wade through many anecdotal examples accompanied by confusing charts and statistics, may find merit in the call for greater public-private sector cooperation," read the review of the New York Times best-selling Knopf hc, LJ XPress Reviews, 11/8/11.-Ed.]-Joseph L. Carlson, Vandenberg Air Force Base Lib., Lompoc, CA (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Tabla de contenido

Introduction	p. ix
Part I Where We Are
1 Our Thirty-Year Antigovernment Obsession	p. 3
2 The 2010 Election and Its Place in the History of Antigovernment Politics	p. 19
3 Why We Need Government	p. 48
4 So What About the Debt?	p. 55
5 How Are We Doing Compared with Our Own Past and with Today's Competition?	p. 84
Part II What We Can Do
6 How Do We Get Back in the Future Business?	p. 117
Epilogue: Time to Choose	p. 188
Acknowledgments	p. 195

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