How to rebuild the economy? Your ideas, please.

We need to start actually MAKING things again! I remember up until maybe the 80s there were at least a dozen garment factories in my small town alone. I worked in three of them before I became a letter carrier and at two of them the money wasn't all that bad and we even got health insurance. There was a time when no matter how bad the economy was there were always jobs available at the sewing factories. I think we need to make it harder for companies to send all of their jobs overseas and give incentives for people to buy American made products. Annie

Abandon ship.... The U.S. has been sending all it's jobs overseas. Everything we buy now is made in some other country. What does the U.S. actually make anymore? We've become nothing but a country of distributors & consumers. At some point the companies will realize they can cut out the middle men , send their junk directly to the stores , take the last of our money & leave us high & dry. Unless the U.S. learns to actually produce stuff for themselves & stop sending our money overseas we're sunk.

The first thing I would do is cut the taxes on investments and dividends so that the more people would invest in this country. This would generate more revenue to the government. Then I would look at why business are moving their business over seas. The first thing we would find out is that it is over regulation and too much red tape coming from the government. I would look to be more energy independent by opening up more oil, gas and coal exploration. This would create many jobs and restart the economy at the same time you are increasing revenue to the government. I would also cut the size of government. We need to look at what is required by the constitution and what could be eliminated. To recover form a recession you have to create jobs in the private sector. The Government can not hire the people and and pay them by printing more money. The government can not spend their way out of the recession.

First of all, I would stop printing money! Then I would close down the IRS, and create one flat consumption tax. I would then open up our energy resources and get Americans back to work through PRIVATE companies. I would look at the various government programs and see what can be cut immediately. I would also stop all mandates to states, return their sovereignty and let them see what they can afford. I would return education to the states and leave healthcare the heck alone. I would beef up defense and infrastructure and cut out the endowment of the arts and other ridiculous federal programs. If California wants a new museum, then California can fund it. I would slowly start working people off entitlement programs with the exception of Social Security as this is a program that people specifically paid into to recieve payments in their golden years. I would stop all bail outs, tarp funds etc. If the bank is failing, then the bank is failing. I would immediately begin paying ALL debts and have a pay as you go program. there would be NO earmarks, pork or what ever you want to call it. If one state gets it, they all do. Well these are just off the top of my head! I am sure there would be more.

I think that it starts with reviewing our trade agreements with foreign countries, and looking at what we produce as a country, and how we can grow that way. Second, you have to find a way to fund small business either with tax incentives, or low interest loans. Then you have to rein in the banks, allowing people to put their money back in them so they can fund more lending. That should do it.

Put on my big girl pants on and make some hard decisions. 1. Cut the budget. The government spends and wastes too much. There are some programs that are "nice to have" but are not a "gotta have". They need to go until we get all our debt paid off. 2. Get rid of the budget deficit. Balance the check book. Everyone in America has to live ona budget...so should our government.STOP spending more than we have. 3. COme up with a REAL plan to pay off the national debt and then actually follow through and do it. It would take years to do....but they ahve got to start now. A good start would be stopping all foreign aide and payments to the UN until the national debt is paid off.Use that money to pay down the national debt. IT is US tax payer dollars. It should be used to help the american people and this country BEFORE it is used to help the rest of the world. That alone would put a HUGE dent in our national debt in just a few years. I have no problem wiht helping other countries in need....but this country and its citizens are in real trouble and we need to fix it now...we are not in a position to help others right now. 4 Become more aggressive in the international job market. Just about all companies are international now. They will build and grow (therefore creating jobs) in whatever country offers them the best deal. We need to start offering them MAJOR incentives to operate and grow here in the US. 5. Make it easier for small businesses and poeple wanting to start small businesses in this country to get started and grow. It will create jobs. To be honest that is what our economy needs...more jobs. Tons of jobs. So here it is fiscal responsibility Paying off debt Creating a climate in this country that encourages massive job growth.

valentines diner okay first I will work with big corporations and small ones and even make some corporations but my idea will be to put all the people thrown out of work back to work. once back to work make or force if necessary apartment owners to help the newly hired to rent apartments that do not require twice the normal range of most peoples salaries, cut down the rents and make up by renting to a lot of newly hired people.it can be done FDRoosevelt in the first depression did it, now its up to Obama to do it now, at once,immediately.As President I will see this is done and when it works people will spend more the economy will be coming up and the jobless and homeless will dwindle to just the drunks and the addicts and the mentally ill. please God do get someone to do these things, I have a personal interest in all this.