Reply #11: If we cut the military by 20% [View All]

[Jackpine Radical]

and invested that money in new infrastructure especially including alternative energy research & deployment, enforced corporate taxes, cut giveaways to the oil companies, and maintained SS and Medicare on their current trajectories, we would not balance everything overnight, but could start working ourselves out of the hole. Combine that with legislation that doesn't permit imports from nations that don't meet humane labor standards and strong environmental rules, and you'd bring back a lot more jobs (while putting on some pressure for the slave-labor parts of the world to reform).