[Huskymaniac]

For those of us that see what is going on and why, it is like watching a train wreck unfold in slow motion before your eyes. It is like the people are too afraid to make the sacrifices necessary to get back on track. The solutions are simple:

1. Balanced budgets required by law. This really would cause a lot of economic pain short term but would save the country long term. Our grandparents survived the depression and WW2. It is time for this generation to sack up.
2. Modify the primary system so everyone votes in primaries of all parties. I don't believe people would intentionally vote for the crappy candidate in the other party. I believe we would get candidates that don't pander to the extremes of their parties. We would get better choices.
3. Modify the electoral college to be one vote per congressional district and two per state. This would avoid buying elections by bailing out or buying the votes in any way of a small number of states. It would force candidates to care about more states while still forcing them to balance the interests of rural and urban areas.
4. Make it illegal for unions to strike for more benefits or higher wages. Unions have made it impossible to manufacture in the USA by effectively creating labor monopolies. This country can't survive long terms as a service only economy. We actually need to MAKE something too.
5. Limit the compensations of CEOs to a reasonable multiple of the lowest or average salary of their company. They would actually have to make their company succeed to make more money themselves.
6. Term limits for congress (12 years?). They become too powerful and only serve themselves by doing what it necessary to get re-elected.
7. CEOs should be able to be fired by a vote of no confidence by employees or shareholders. The good ole boy network needs to be castrated.
8. Change Welfare and or the tax code to provide incentives for people on public assistance to benefit from actually working.
9. Upgrade the electric grid and build and maintain safe nuclear power plants. Build them where they are safe from natural disasters. Use the Navy to maintain and operate them. Build them as a distributed grid of various sizes so spent fuel can be passed down to further drive out the radioactivity and make it less toxic to store. Defend each plant with a National Guard base. THEN we can move to affordable electric cars AND eliminate our dependency on foreign oil. We can still supplement this with solar, wind and hydro power but Nuclear has to be the foundation.
10. Overhaul the tax code. Treat all capital gains as normal income. Eliminate corporate taxes to, again, make it easier to be in the USA and be profitable. We need to create jobs and eliminate the massive tax loopholes used by the wealthy. Romney is a good example. It should not be possible to do what he did.