Cut welfare making it a requirement if you got a federal check or state check, you had to be at work for the state
A - I assume you refer to only healthy people and B - I assume you dont' wish to the dead weight of bureacracy that gives us road repair crews that use shovels for canes to lean on, cannot grade a road because they were never trained how to run the equipment, or, people who sit yakking to co-workers while ignoring people waiting endless hours at the DMV for their car tags. The last thing I want is another bunch of arrogant incompetents for me to deal with in government.
The problem is the whole system is self-serving. Companies preaching free enterprise think nothing of taking millions from the government as "incentives" to put a service center or factory in their state. To wit, Google's new complex in Oklahoma will make a lot of jobs but at a high cost to the state. Arkansas just landed HP for a town that is already growing quite well, thank you, at a cost to Arkansas taxpayers of $220 million AND the state will help incoming HP executives find jobs for their wives...why not hire them some illegals to clean their house? mow the lawn? procure hookers for them?
Ban all states from provide such incentives. If HP wants to take the plant to Tiawan, let them. Slap an import tax on them then. Go to a flat tax that treats corporations and individuals alike. Examine all "licenses" like ours for its usefulness and stop regulating everything from interior decorators to appraisers. Abolish administrative laws and hire more judges to do what the constitution demanded in the first place. Loser pay tort reform. If you get sued and win the loser should have to pay your legal bills which should be capped at 15% of the settlement.
Recognize that Greenspan was the worst sort of Fed chair. Like those before Volcker he thought he could regulate the markets by yo-yoing the discount rate. Volcker recognized that regulating the money supply while requiring higher margins (he raised reserve margins to 8%) stopped inflation. Return to regulated banks. The firewall between investment banks and commercial banks needs restored (but that is a closing of barn door after the horse is out problem). Stop brokerage houses from operating as "banks". All lenders should be regulated. Abolish the commission based mortgage broker business.
To get fuel prices down, raise CAFE rates by 50% - 10% per year, open up off shore drilling, ANWR, and the Shale Oil reserves on the Roan Cliffs. Drop the super low sulfer diesel fuel requirement. I am constantly asked by diesel runs MORE than gasoline. DUH! Super low sulpher diesel costs more to refine than gasoline. They make a diesel motor for Wranglers, and many other vehicles which are all exported because they cannot meet the super low sulphur requirement. Low sulfer fuels are still in use overseas even in countries that are supposed to be "green" countries. They are not stupid enough to shoot themselves in the foot.
The appraiser should be treated as a law officer. Anyone pushing or pressuring an appraiser should be considered a criminal and any Realtor or banker should go to jail on the first offense. Likewise, any appraiser who kowtows to a lender ought be sent to jail.
Those would reverse the path we are on. The path will run its course and its not going to be a smooth ride I fear. The worst since the depression without a doubt.
