[Conservative til I die]

Yes, please do go on. While I don't disagree with tightening up immigration, both legal and illegal, it seems to be what your fixating on, and I don't think that is the sole thing ailing the economy.

[Centurion2000]

Yes, please do go on. While I don't disagree with tightening up immigration, both legal and illegal, it seems to be what your fixating on, and I don't think that is the sole thing ailing the economy.

If there are 10 million illegal aliens (estimated) and hundreds of thousands of H1B visa holders in the US, then eliminating those will push employment back up to full capacity.

The other idea would be to tear a page from Clancy and use that "mirror trade" law. Essentially all countries would have their trade laws reflected back on them for all imports.

Tearing the guts out of OPIC is another point to make, and maybe pushing China around on human rights is another point. Getting the US out of the IMF and World Bank is an additional step towards turning the economy up.

It's long past time for the US to really start playing hardball.

[Centurion2000]

another point : School vouchers will increase quality teacher demand in private schools.

[FITZ]

and I don't think that is the sole thing ailing the economy.

It's a combination. We're sending millions of jobs out of this country but at the same time millions of uneducated, unskilled people are pouring over the border. We're taking in all of Mexico's unemployed and keeping all our own. Somewhere there is a breaking point.