We know how to do this even if these overpaid idiots don't. Each fall, the Heritage Foundation publishes their study of economic freedom around the world which includes a list of the 180 or so world's nations from most free to least free (the US is usually about 6th or 8th). There is not a free nation that is not prosperous and there is not an unfree nation that is not poor. No exceptions!
We've worked to get where we are as a nation. IMF and the rest of the leaching scum be damned. No one ever respected a handout or the giver of a handout. I am proud to be a contributor within my corporate environment. No shame for what I own, or what I can do with my income. In a business setting it's lead, follow or get the hell out of the way. Competition is the gut, the hub, the driver, of all industries. Unless of course business can be motivated to progress without competition; going to the lowest common denominator. Find out why corporations are returning to America from the Mexican experiment.
Water finds its own level. The perfect example of this is South Africa. I rest my case.
This is photo-op tail-chasing. More and expensive ( because you and I are paying for it ) political BS with republicans and the democrats in a fight to the finish, trying to see who can spend our money the fastest. For what? You tell me.