OpenGov - Open Government Brainstorm

How about give each U.S. citizen the money from the unspent stimulus (porkulus) funds instead of spending it on Congressional pet projects to buy future votes? The citizens would start buying and investing again. What would that be? A couple hundred thousand each?

Resolve the unemployment / underemployment issue and the energy problems at the same time by creating 21 strategically placed nuclear power plants through out the U.S.

This resolves the issue of right of way for powerlines from the desert solar arrays etc. and spurs businesses to hire skilled labor.

The power plants would create the largest number of jobs that take several years to complete. Jobs in trucking, engineering, steel, cement, turbines to name a few and would generate the electricity to charge all of the electric vehicles in the future.

I, together will all Amriecans, wish it were that simple.

What good is it to build a car or a house if no one can afford to buy it?

Will the prices of cars and houses continue to drop, AFTER workers are hired at the same old high salaries?

Or, will they accept lower pay that leads to loser prices that may be affordable, some day, not now but,

some day in the far future,

when ENOUGH salaries drop low ENOUGH to make a difference.

Then, and only then, we will learn that the last year of the Recession was cause by the High, RECESSION-Proof salaries of far too many people.

You make the list. It is hard to do.

I'd divide the unspent stimulus money up between the U.S. citizens. It would do more good going directly than being continually syphoned off on the way to this invisible private sector job creation.

The serious problem with your idea is that the labor union costs in the U.S. would cause the price of all goods and services in this country to be unreasonably high which is why companies go to foreign countries for workers. The way to create jobs is to get rid of Obama and put in fiscally conservative candidates who understand that you create jobs with a tax structure that supports business (2/3 of the jobs in country are provided by small business). Obama is obviously anti-capitalist and is attacking the very investors and small business' which create the jobs in the first place.

We need to protect our manufacturing base with protective tariffs. Yes, I am for abolishing free trade. This would make goods in Wal-Mart more expensive but it would promote domestic job creation in the manufacturing fields. Couple this with increasing manufacturing tax credits will help create low education required jobs. They doubters will say, “Raising protective tariffs during a depression is what deepened the last depression,” and they would be right. During the last depression all countries raised protective tariffs to increase domestic job creation, which slowed cross boarder trade. When we write the law to implement protective tariffs, just put in an end date or stage down to the tariff system, thus other countries may find them less threatening.

Stop, audit, tax higher, and punish any business/corporation that ships jobs out of country. We must end this practice of shipping manufacturing out of America. Confiscate all funds found in offshore bank accounts. The only reason to have funds in offshore bank accounts is to hide income from taxation. These ideas are a good start, but only a start.

ccljoness it removes all appearance of charity when this comes from the government extracting our hard earned money from our pockets. Charity only occurs when time, money or property is given by an individual of their own volition.

ccljoness it removes all appearance of charity when this comes from the government extracting our hard earned money from our pockets. Charity only occurs when time, money or property is given by an individual of their own volition.

have the companies move back, or pay big taxxes were is cheaper to return . the plus side to this is more work for us and made in the U.S.A . 2nd stop spending waistfull monie in the white house go shopping at wall-mart . M.R. OBAMA i voted for you and i also would like to know the truth , were you born on USA soil. you must tell the truth , so youre words can be true.

The reason we are going into a deeper Recession is that too many prices are constant, and some even increase, while jobs decrease.

Or, in a simpler form: Prices are too high and the total income continues to decrease.

Consider too that this jobs produce cars and other goods that compete in the world market, and they do not pay salaries higher than those here. Got it? Prices are too high, because production costs of materials and labor are too high.

Prices too high, because production cost is too high.

Sure, we could ban foreign good but who can afford the higher local prices, while out of work?

Add to this problem another that grew in the last 20 years: Too many Recession-Proof Salaries are too high!

A Recession-Proof Bonus is your reward after risking $42 Trillion and our government leaders find "you are too big to Fail!" and taxpayers give them Billions in bonus, to retain them because of their competence (?)

Initially authorized with a 24-word phrase from the White House, that not even Justice Dept. or Congress could alter decisions made by Treasure Dept!

The Contra Costa Times sued and won the right to print the list of Educators(?) earning over $100,000.

Top Transit administrators earn $300,000 (?).

Average transit workers earn $100,000, this is more than County Supervisors in many counties in California. The list seems endless but we know that for each job "too important to fail" there are hundreds that did and they are looking for a new job.

Low income people are left to shop in big box stores with mostly foreign goods.

Only those with "Recession Proof Salaries" can afford luxury cars Made In America!

Yeah, bur for how long...