Originally Posted by JollyRoger

We have become a country that thinks we will make money by taking in each others wash. We simply can't. These are the things we need to do:

1) College education up to Associate Degree, free for all who want it

2) College up to PHD,free, but merit based.

3) Financial incentives for technical and scientific degrees, none for Liberal Arts.

4) Government support for a huge push in Robotics. The only way we can compete against Asian labor is thru robots.

5) We must get off of foreign oil in order to increase the amount of capital available in this country for manufacturing projects

6) Continue "free trade" with the all of the world except for China. What China calls "free trade" is a system of currency manipulation supported by slave labor, which outputs pollution and disease. We owe them no free trade agreement.

7) Cut the US Defense budget in half. Withdraw from all foreign bases where no threat exists or where the countries can take care of themselves. Use the savings to build sustainable consumer industries.

8) Go to a Single Payer health care system like the rest of the world uses, so our health care costs are not borne as competitive costs by business and are instead socialized over the population as a whole

9) End the US income tax system, and replace it with a Value Added Tax.

10) Reform the US political system, outlaw all lobbying and campaign contributions and set up a C-SPAN based campaigning system where all candidates must compete on the merit of their ideas instead of the fatness of their wallets.