When I look at the state of the United States I can not help but wonder not, “how did we get here?” but “how do we plan to fix it?” For the last few years over and over again I have heard, “the banks did this,” “the government did this,” “greed did this,” “investors did this,” but none of this matters from what I see! Here is what I see the issue is, that right now our country is spiraling into debt, causing the masses to organize and complain about corporate taxes, the unemployed to cause stress on their families, the states to cut funding to schools, and many other factors that come with a poor economy. This is the only way I can see it getting better:

  • In order to avoid bankruptcy, whether it be now, or ten years from now, there must be changes to both the tax system and the budget. Clearly, if it is jobs we are worried about and want to jump start the economy, cut taxes! Say 1% across the board is all, and at the same time cut the budget by 3 or 5%, so not too much, but then maintain that budget, at the same amount for maybe 2 years, which with a 2-3% inflation rate will effectively cut the budget by ~10% by the time that is done. That’s not all however, decrease spending during that time on medicare, medicaid, and the military, and refocus money on building infrastructure, building government equipment that the government can then resell (for more money), on education, on any form that will actually increase tangible goods in the United States.
  • Attempt to restructure the way in which the education system works, take for example the government run schools which have a hefty overhead cost and has limited competition (take for example the limited number of private schools receiving permits in recent years, supposedly because it competes and is unfair to the average person because those with wealth are the only ones who can get the private education), so here is what I say, adopt the system of Europe! Allow each child, say $10,000 for school and allow the parent to choose where to go, allowing competition and less overhead costs, decreasing costs for the government and increasing the education received.
  • Everyone must put forth the effort, ask for donations, ask people to buy bonds, create a sense of growth, an upbeat attitude!
May sound too simple, but it will boost production (in both building, due to schools and money into infrastructure) , decrease spending (seemingly small amounts at first), and after the time period tax income would actually have increased (because of the boost in the number of jobs, and amount people are payed by the end of 3 or 4 years, that 1% tax break would have been overcome).