Necessities of escaping the recession

#1 - Stop driving up the national debt. This is money owed to businesses, businesses employ people. Tax breaks for business puts more money in all their pockets, no matter what they're doing, but /paying/ businesses actually rewards them for being productive.

#2 - Build a surplus. A surplus means more businesses, more people, getting paid for their work. Getting paid for work is kind of the whole concept of a capitalist economy, it's how capitalism translates to production. Cutting their taxes is just a handout, a reward for employing people, I'm willing to make the argument that tax breaks = SOCIALISM. Companies should be rewarded for making PRODUCT. Secondly they should be rewarded for making GOOD product, but that's something only government accountability, transparency, and informed consumers/voters can assure.

#3 - Public works. Once the federal and state debts are being paid off, they can see about getting roads and infrastructure repaired and upgraded. Broadband is still unavailable in many parts of the country, as of last year we were behind ESTONIA in broadband coverage (or was it broadband growth? Err, I don't remember).

The U.S. should be a good place for business not because it taxes them less, but because they have access to the very best infrastructure and employees in the world. That involves smart planning of public works, and damned good public education. For starters:

#4 - Encourage veteran education. A new G.I. bill and a new commitment to helping them help themselves. These men and women are the best and (sometimes) the brightest we have in this nation, after losing a few limbs and probably getting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, the very least we could do is get them a Bachelor's Degree, if not a Master's or a PHD, which they'd also deserve. I mean, FFS.

#5 - F*ck Harvard. Wait -- that's not fair. I'm just steamed they're complaining that their financial piggybank has shrunk from some ungodly hundreds of billions down to a mere hundred billion or so. I'm sure there's many other Ivy League schools that have this much cash squared away, while public education in many areas gets by on a shoestring and 3 kids per book. How many kids you think are going to get a scholarship to an Ivy League school when they're coming out of a system like that? Do you honestly believe every child with the potential for greatness, the potential to make the world a better place, has the great fortune to be either noticed by a magnaminous benefactor, or born into a rich household?

Let's face it, there's certain institutions you have to pass through in order to become a senator, a president, the next rich jagoff. Those institutions ain't cheap. Those sidewalks paved with gold ain't for you and me to get our grubby shoes on.

I'd love to see the day when the likes of Harvard are burnt to the ground (FIGURATIVELY), by the very dreamers that attended these storied institutions and managed to gain the power these places grant without losing their souls to it.