The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery.
You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, 'It could have been much better.'
It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.
We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place.
I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.
I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.
I understand what needs to be done to fix the economy.
But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.
But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.
The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
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