Non-financial institutions are sitting on nearly $2 trillion in cash. They aren't hiring. The reason they aren't hiring isn't because they don't have enough money, or subsidies, or tax loopholes, or because of too much regulation, or because they are confounded by the Affordable Care Act. It is lack of demand.
Cutting the deficit doesn't create jobs. There will be no new opportunities for businesses if we reduce government spending. On the contrary, government cuts translate to fired government workers and contractors. Fired people get added to the unemployment rolls. Unemployed people have less money to spend, and further depress demand.
Low wages are bad for the economy. We built the greatest consumer economy in the world due to good, middle class jobs – the product of strong unions.
Health care for all is good for the economy. Medical bankruptcies, an exclusively American phenomenon, account for 60% of all bankruptcies. Healthcare costs create a huge cost disadvantage for domestic companies. Health insurance is a tremendous barrier to entry into the world of small business. A healthy workforce is more productive.
The US Chamber of Commerce, Koch Brothers, Fox News, Congressional Republicans, et al, are actually undermining the very business interests they represent, not a single one of which doesn't have its fat, greedy face in the trough of government largess they ostensibly loathe.
The path to a more prosperous economy - prosperity that every demographic participates in, is higher wages, higher taxes, less war, and massive government spending on infrastructure, technology, energy, and education.
Of course you can lead a barbarian to education, but you can't make him think.