It would solve a good hunk of our illegal immigration problem, and many Americans forced to file for unemployment these past few years...will have gainful employment. So American companies need to start investing in America and the American worker again...and they need to STOP sending jobs overseas.

One of the reasons given by the head honchos of these companies for not hiring (and for hoarding their profits) is consumer demand is low. Well, what do they think will happen when millions of Americans no longer are receiving unemployment benefits? Consumer demand will drop. Likewise, what will happen if they begin to hire these unemployed Americans? Consumer demand will increase.

Not only would those Americans standing in unemployment lines today have a better chance for a good job...but our President would not have been forced to sign into law an extension of unemployment benefits to those whose benefits have expired!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/14/AR2010071405960.html

Rescind Nafta. Deport all illegal aliens that undercut wages and send American Dollars offshore. Raise the American Wage.

I agree with rescinding NAFTA. It's something I'd expect Republicans to do, so when Clinton did it, I was doubly horrified. I really to this day don't know why he pushed NAFTA.

I thought it was Bush, Sr., who pushed NAFTA and had all the agreements in place before Clinton was elected. Clinton just signed the legislation.

Whatever, if the US is supporting however many illegals from Mexico it's supporting and, if the US has lost production jobs as a result of NAFTA, I agree it should go--or be modified in some way to equalize the balance of trade with Mexico and to bring back some of the lost jobs.

Renegotiate some of the union contracts--especially the UAW and the Teamsters. It appears as if their demands have pretty much killed a lot of the manufacturing jobs in the US.

Then there's the WTO and its predecessor, GATT. All trade should be balanced in favor of all countries--both developed and developing--if the WTO worked for both and not just for developing countries.

For the US--we need to be able to circulate money, both here and in all countries, without the investment and credit greed that led the world into its current financial woes. If that means short term socialism until a balance can be achieved, so be it--and I don't mean social programs, which is a different thing. It, to me, means government regulation. Republican capitalism in terms of Reaganomics hasn't worked. The US, as a service economy, can't rely on Adam Smith's liberal rules of economics and market stabilization through competition. That's, of course, my opinion.

Now--Invest in the American Worker--Great! Where are the American workers and where, in a service economy, are the jobs the American worker can take?

American car makers need to drop prices and ramp up quality. It looks like Ford is. And quit it with the big monster trucks. They're cool and all but, many of us don't need them. They get lousy gas mileage and gas ain't cheap any more.

More American motorcycles. Buell died. Americans don't make shaft driven liquid cooled bikes. Honda and Suzuki do. They sell bikes. Lots of them.

We need to make clothes here. We all wear clothes. Clothes sell.

Solar, wind and water energy. We drove across Texas recently and there are thousands of windmills. Keep it up. This so called 'alternative energy' should be a huge growth industry. Not only will it make new jobs, there will be jobs for entry level Americans and Americans who already have energy related job experience.

More farm land. Farming used to be a job to pass on from generation to generation. I don't see us stopping eating any time soon so...

Make American made products affordable. That's the kicker. If you find an American made product, chances are you can find an import made just as well or well enough and it'll cost less. All the patriotism in the world won't pay my mortgage. I'll buy American when I can afford to. When I can't, import it is. Sometimes I think American manufactures jack up prices and try to sell patriotism. Hey! Buy this. It's made in America. How can you afford not to? Easily. I can buy an import and still pay for my American made house.