Al68 had it right; nothing is the answer. Let the economy work to straighten itself out without government manipulation that always makes a mess of things. Left alone, the market economy would get itself in a order in remarkably short time. All the government can do is prevent that from happening and extent the period of disorder and despair.
Government always, without exception, makes the worst possible economic decisions because its decisions are always political rather than rational. Government never has to make a profit or answer to shareholders, but it always answers to lobbyists and insiders. It will never, ever make a good economic decision.
Government employment is a joke. Government employees joke about being "government layabouts" because they have so little to do. The management in government offices is insane and utterly ignorant. They are political hacks, in place because of who they know, not what they know (I know, I worked in a government lab for seven long, long years!). Expanding government employment is simply expanding waste.
The answer is leave the American people alone. Stop stealing their money in the form of additional taxation, stop imposing upon them with more and more regulation, get out of their faces and let them be the free people they are supposed to be.
"I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you." --- Aaaiiiiiiiiiiiiii...
