And most people won't get that reference, and end up thinking you are a birther.  Yes, it is sad, considering we are all supposed to be Keynesians now.

America needs to pay its debts and start living by its means. Otherwise America will be the new Greece.

The talk of the Fiscal Cliff has to do this.  Moves that would end up pushing in that direction are saying they will have a net negative impact, as in budget cuts and forced raising of taxes.  Thing is that most of the world is living beyond its means at this time.  It has been built on debt, and the levels of growth aren't able to keep up with the debt.  The compounded effect of interest eventually does come do.  The issue seen is that, if you end up having people systemically living within their means, you will end up having entire industries vanish and that causes contraction to happen and it snowballs.  It needs to be done, but then you start to have things along the lines of the paradox of thrift.  I say it is valid, although I have strong disagreements with Keynesians who think aggregate demand is ALL that matters. 

The thing is also, while the debts get paid down, you have sluggish economics.  Also, keep in mind that, in a debt based currency economy, if all debts are paid, there is no longer any currency floating around in an economy.  Think about an economy without currency for a minute.

That's why I think deregulation is key. If and when we ever have to live in our means, it will contract our economy. If markets and industries are deregulated, then the hope/goal would be that industries and businesses can invest in new sectors to mitigate the damages.

I agree with you, this is what the influence of money does. People like CEO's want taxes to be low enough that they don't exist! The richer people like that and their massive companies need to realise their actions affect real people and the environment around them, and they need to pay for the consequences, if anything arises. There job is to provide jobs, not just take jobs, wherever it's cheapest. China and India will only have jobs as long as they have cheap labour, they need to realise that, then the companies will just fuck off elsewhere, probably to Africa. Capitalism sucks like that

Deregulation as in simplifying the rules, or cutting enforcement of rules (or both)?  A problem seen now is one totally unregulated market (derivates) is currently a time bomb waiting to go off.  Saying deregulation alone isn't a miracle, when people can leverage and take down the entire economy, as they did.  This doesn't mean part of the solution couldn't be simplifying the rules.  Making it easier to get going helps.  But, unless people will take responsibility to proactively prevent issues, it doesn't happen.  In any given industry, there is always the push to increase risk taking, to get bigger pay outs, and people doing these have hubris to think that they won't fail.

A big wall.

What like the Berlin wall, even that fell in the end

I'm not sure how many countries have a border that big.

And why not?  It'd look pretty badass.

Also walls don't hurt people you know.

Every illegal alien who comes in to work a crappy job is preventing a legal alien from coming here, getting paid more for that crappy job and getting more rights/living a better life.

Nah they should just dump all the shit America don't want on the border with Mexico, so mexicans think America is no better than Mexico, so they won't go to the states at all. LOL