Well, mr. dyslexic ironman, I do have a few ideas:Originally Posted by NAMNORI
1.) Instead of bailing out the banks we should have let them go chapter 13 and instead used that money for something else. The credit market needs to slow down. Most businesses aren't looking for credit to expand, if anything they are trying to shrink, and consumers are hesitant to run up a bunch of debt with shite the way it is.
2.) We could have establishd some sort of basic health care for the 46 million (IIRC) Americans without insurance. A plan like this would circulate pretty much every dollar spent on it back in to the consumer economy, because previously uninsured people would now have access to doctors, and the doctors and hospitals would have more business, creating jobs, etc etc. As opposed to having those dollars get wiped out in a stock collapse like they did with AIG.
3.) I'd have been tougher on the auto inustry, increasing mileage requirements for all vehicles as a condition of recieving federal bailout money. I'd have them drop redundant product lines (no more badge engineering). At the same time I would study ways to work with safety standards and such to make it easier for them to make vehicles that are globally competitive rather than only competitive in the domestic market.
4.) I would have put more of the stimulus into education and job tranining programs and not so much on things like wildlife preservation and maintainence of gov't facilities and vehicle fleets. I would also significantly raise the bar for any public school which recieves federal money. Rather than standardized tests, school systems would be rated with exit survery of how their students place in the job market and in universities. Highschools with high dropout rates, low rates of college acceptance, and poor rates of job placement would be put on a sort of "chapter 13" untill they achieve results.
5.) I would withdraw from Iraq as soon as possible, redeploying some forces to Afghanistan.
6.) Legalization of Marijuana and an end to almost all "war on drugs" efforts related to marijuana. The DEA would be absorbed into the ATF and they would focus on harder drugs like cocaine, heroin, and meth. Marijuana would be left for the states to decide, but if they did decide to have it, it would be subject to a federal tax.
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