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Infrastructure spending. And for one, I wouldn't build railroads. We have no engines or rolling freight to run on them. Where would we get those? Europe's the only place still building them.
No, build libraries, schools, good poverty housing, and fix up the existing roads. Build some civic centers and parks with bike trails and dog walks.
But the great evils of the megacorporations will still be there. So break up Wal-Mart. Break up the media monopolies. Take measures to end outsourcing and limit visas for technical workers from other countries.
It isn't as simple as Uncle Sam spending his way out of this mess. It's forcing businessmen to realize that they are not gods, that their fate is the same fate as the people they employ, and that everybody has to start behaving like grownups for the first time in fifty years.
