I am actually working on such things as we speak: http://ragingdebate.com/about
There is a think of emerging economists and bright innovators. Those I hand picked a year ago that called this downturn to a T and whose forecasted numbers and timing matched my own. Those that understood the WHYS in other words of the difference in the business cycle of Efficient Market vs. Save and Invest economies.
My part is technology build to connect the masses, create a debate engine and an actionable plan engine. Government cannot solve these problems alone and are encapsulated and muting out the citizenship.
I appealed the Republicans and the President himself for such technology 2 years ago. I got silence and I do have an inside connection. So, I and other middle class and upper middle class will pull the double duty of Patriotism and continuing to bread on the table with very little. A study of American history demonstrates these events have happened three other times and all three times the same solution set works. The citizenship does its job when it gets pissed off enough and we entrepenuars and innovators do our job. Anything else on detail can be easily followed. See www.theburningplatform.com . Raging Debate, in other words me and my management team are scaling this blogging tech to all for free and supporting it. Next steps are debate engine, finished in four weeks and the actionable plan engine in less then six months. The actionable plan stage will allow a citizen to submit plan, have it voted on by the collective for substance and then mechanisms for citizen to input a few variables (say an idea was cut all taxes down to 15%) to output an effect positive or negative in numbers on the likely outcome of the plan.
Put smart young minds to work. Indeed. Whom do you think is polishing all these concepts? The collective of emerging leadership.