1. Eliminate the Federal Reserve and restore Congress’ constitutional role of regulating money.
2. Deal with AIG and the trading houses from an antitrust perspective instead of nationalization; break them up into smaller entities.
3. Illegalize, monitor and penalize naked short selling.
4. To lower government’s burden, immediately privatize the NEA, NEH, ED, USDA and DHHS, except for FDA.
5. With the money saved, immediately eliminate all estate and payroll taxes.
6. Legally change Social Security from being an entitlement to being a real insurance so it can’t be raided.
7. Pledge to systematically reduce the amount of business regulation law on the books by 50% in volume within the next four years, starting with OSHA.
8. Immediate deportation of all illegal aliens and completion of the Mexico border fence. That’s not harshness; that’s respect for the rule of law and fairness for legal citizens.
9. Initiate limited, “no strings attached” stimulus spending, including some FDR style “make work” programs, some investments in national infrastructure and limited TARP funds for companies created by antitrust enforcement.
10. Fireside Chats (they worked).
11. Remove speech and political activity restrictions on religious 501(c)(3)s. This would do more to get ordinary people involved with politics than any other action we could take as a nation; The reason 501(c)(3) prohibitions arose in the first place was to discourage average citizens from being involved with politics.
12. Drill baby, drill!
I don’t care if anyone says we can’t get all of these things, or that they might raise the ire of the other side of the aisle. The fact is, if we can get any of these items they would be viable alternatives to help stop a spiraling economy.
1. Eliminate the Federal Reserve and restore Congress’ constitutional role of regulating money.
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Good luck with that. While I don’t think this is a conservative vs. liberal issue, conservatives (in particular the JBS) have propagated a story that those that oppose the Fed will end up dead.
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You can’t treat an organization that is going bankrupt as a monopoly. Now as a part of bankruptcy/nationalization, you can break them up. Now yes, the ones that aren’t going bankrupt should be treated as monopolies, but again, that is not a liberal or conservative issue.
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What? More regulation? You damned socialist.
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1) Why exempt the FDA? 2) The goal of a corporation is to make money. How is the NEA,USDA, … going to make money?
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You think privatizing the various Departments will save enough to completely pay for SS, unemployment, Medicare… I’d like to see that math.
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Insurance companies get raided. Look at AIG.
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Measuring law by the pound is not a useful measurement. It’s a reactionary metric used to mobilize the simple.
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You’d have an easier time of it if you simply punished the employers much more harshly.
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You goddamned socialist!
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Whose going to give them? Narcissist Sarah? McNasty? Boner the Tan? Jindal the Volcano Expert?
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Separation of Church and State.
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Mindless pap to make people feel good. Simple math tells us the US can’t drill enough to make a difference. Furthermore, we’ve been giving out permits faster than they use them; rushing out more permits will simply pad the pockets of the oil companies.
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