Reply #104: That's our only hope . . . thin though it may be

[martymar64]

What we will need to is a massive public works program, bigger than the New Deal, to repair our physical infrastructure and put people to work. Banks and Wall Street will need to be brought to heel in a big way with severe criminal penalties, including capital punishment for malfeasance and nationalization of the banks and the petroleum companies and our medical system. We need to adopt a protectionist policy in regard to trade in order to rebuild our manufacturing base and enforce a monetary and energy policy that keeps dollars in the US. Also we need to leave Iraq and Afghanistan NOW, regardless of what happens over there and pull our troops out of foreign bases around the world including Germany, Korea and Japan and adopt an isolationist foreign policy.
Those are some suggestions, but the big goal is to contract our interests to only secure the Homeland and repair what 30 years of Reaganomics has done to our country.
You may not agree with some of those ideas and that's OK. But I'm sure we can both concur that something radical has to be done, and if we can hold on and delay any bailouts until after Obama is safely in the WH, then we actually may have a chance at survival.