1. Your house is NOT an investment. It is a place to live that you can get some money out of if you need or want to move. It is a home stupid, not a piggy bank!
2. Any interest that is charged without an equal amount of growth is the same as the QE people talk of. It is the creation of more money out of thin air. Interest levels must exactly match growth or inflation will result causing an unstable economy that consumers cannot trust.
3. If you make more than 250k a year and cannot live on that amount, you need to invest in some lessons on how to manage money. Most of us live on 1/4th of that or less and we live good, decent lives. You can too.
4. Denying people who cannot find profitable work due to deregulated business laws that allow the outsourcing of said jobs to cheaper economic regions is a crime against humanity. Such people who would do so should be tried and charged with treason. I must say I have little against globalization, but if said globalization is to be accomplished; human rights, wages, and costs of living must be the same in all regions participating in the global economy. Otherwise, you have the problems that much of the first world is having today.
5. Get your home in order first! All public assistance to foreign nations should be suspended until America is the thriving nation that allowed us to feed most of the world in the past. We have 1/6th of our population on food assistance and our countries roads and major engineering feats are crumbling before our very eyes.
6. Military might should be used for defense purposes. No one in their right mind would believe that cave critters in another country are a real threat requiring the might and expense of our military. Simply securing the borders, exporting illegal aliens, and increasing border security would provide 99% of the protection we are getting now at 1% of the cost. When the USA goes to war…it should be for a reason other than a terrorist group on the other side of the world. We have 100k MS-13 gang members in this country and a couple hundred thousand more in the countries right next to us and our government has done nothing to marginalize that particular problem.
7. Nationally produced energy is the number one solution to national security. Solar, fusion, wind, water, and thorium reactors can eliminate our dependence upon foreign energy sources within twenty years. Made a national priority, energy will be virtually free in our economy within 30 years.
8. Unlike some extreme right wing conservatives believe, public education should not be eliminated but rather expanded further than it has been in over 100 hundred years. Everyone should have the opportunity to pursue as much advanced education as desired. I am sure some of my readers wish I had taken some more grammar classes.
Our technology has made distance learning an option and while many colleges are allowing anyone to view lectures for free, textbooks and lesson plans should be provided as well so that anyone can turn in and learn what they need to know.
There are tons of other things that could stimulate our economy in ways that conservatives and liberals both could never imagine benefiting an economy. Come to find out, the more you give away and enrich the population of your country, the richer the entire country is, and the more robust the economy becomes. True wealth is obtained when money is in constant motion and there are few or no parasites in the system weakening it in the middle.
9. If you bother to check the financial news, you are aware that corporations have done very well in the 2009-2010 time frame. a 62% increase is a great rebound and far beyond what any of the rest of us have experienced. Perhaps we as laborers should start acting as though we ourselves are corporations as well. We should have required a minimum return for the investment of our time in building the great corporations of our country into the multinational giants they have become. A more robust profit-sharing plan as well as real life living wages that allow us to not only pay our expenses, but to profit on a corporate level of at least 10% per year should be minimum acceptable to any available worker. Next time you go looking for a job, start thinking like you are a corporation. Do not accept any job that will leave you in the red at the end of the year, or one that forces you to lower the quality of your life while your employer continues to grow at a respectable rate.
Our most destructive parasites right now are bankers in general who charge more interest than there is growth in the economy. This creation of money out of thin air has been occurring with greater intensity for the past hundred years and has finally devalued the dollar to the point that inflation is occurring even without the existence of other inflationary pressures. Our second most destructive parasite is big businesses who outsource our means of making an income to less expensive regions of the planet and import those products back into the country. For any type of real recover to occur this behavior has to be stopped. The question is what do we do from this point on? I do not have all the answers, only a few ideas that many people find unfavorable. My response to them, and you, is show me something different then that is sustainable and benefits our entire nation rather than a select few in that nation.