Tavis Smiley Show: Jeffrey Sachs- 'A Possible More Progressive President Obama In A 2nd Term'

Source:The Tavis Smiley Show- Professor Jeffrey Sachs, on The Tavis Smiley Show, talking about President Barack Obama.

"Jeffrey Sachs: A Possible More Progressive President Obama In A 2nd Term." Originally from The Tavis Smiley Show, but the video has since been deleted or blocked on YouTube.  

"In 1981, Ronald Reagan came to office famously declaring that "government is the problem.” Barack Obama’s recent inaugural address, with its ringing endorsement of a larger role for government in addressing America’s – and the world’s – most urgent challenges, marks the end of the 30-year "Reagan Revolution" that followed." 

From Jeffrey Sachs

I don't want to see President Obama become more socialist ( let's say ) in a second term: meaning he'll look to expand the Federal Government and create all new social insurances and so-forth. 

President Obama is going to have to concentrate on the economy starting off and hopefully he'll get something like the American Jobs Act passed through the next Congress, that's built around infrastructure investment, moving towards energy independence, through investing in all of our natural resources, more tax relief for the middle class, to encourage more consumer spending.

These are things that we need to do as a country, create economic and job growth, so we can move towards real deficit reduction. I believe President Obama understands these things and will be concentrating on them. 

Barack Obama is not George McGovern (or Bernie Sanders, of today) he's not looking to create a new New Deal, he didn't run for President to expand the Federal Government, but to meet the challenges of the country and they mostly has something to do with the economy. I don't believe he even believes in economic socialism, but is more of a Teddy Roosevelt, perhaps even Jack Kennedy Progressive, when it comes to the economy.