An intense effort to explore the mineral wealth of the US should be put into place ASAP. This will create millions of new jobs. And America is going to need jobs, lots of jobs.
We also need a resurgence in American engineering and production, in order to change this from a consumption (credit) economy to a production based economy. This may require some protectionist and isolationist principles put into place; taboo words at best in our brave new world order.