What we first need to do as a nation is to stop subsidizing the export of capital and jobs. We do not have free trade at present we have a situation where the USA is a source of capital for foreign nations and is acting as the transferer of wealth while those nations have in place policies that prevent the return flow of wealth to the USA.
For one small set of measures along the way I wrote the following essay <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/912627/posts'> Saving Our Economy</A>.