America needs to make things once again.
Stop importing everything.
Importing is OK, just slap a tariff on imports to cover the social costs. Then I am good.
The way I've been describing it is the US (and a lot of other countries) need a "time out". Before we had globalism run amuck, the goal of a nation was self-sufficiency. The US was great when we had that.
The "time out" would involve getting rid of non-citizens and make do with the population we have. Next to no handouts, lots of opportunities to manufacture things we're importing, in agriculture, in other basics. Less, not more, government programs. I'm a *itch about it, but those who don't like it can starve.
For decades, the goal has been to move government up, centralized first in states, now under the federal government. Make things local again. It's easier to have accountability when things are local.
Don't pay back the money "owed" to the Federal Reserve and abolish that evil institution.
There will be some pain. The real problem started with GWB, who supposedly has an MBA and got worse with Obama, whose not too bright. It's a math principle that things happen in cycles and if those cycles are disrupted the results are far worse when control is lost (think mortgage meltdown). Quantitative Easing instead of borrowing real money with interest rates that reflected risk upset what would've happened in the recession. Now, it's out of control....the Fed doesn't know how to stop the bogus money scheme and the stock market is out of control.
What a mess.