“U.S. President Barack Obama: “As I’ve said from the start, there’s no quick fix to the worst recession we’ve experienced since the Great Depression.”

Yes, there is. Decriminalize tax evasion…”

Read the rest at his site.

Another (more narrow) idea: Make national politicians work for the median income of the area they represent. That’d save us a lot of money, and maybe make the politicians a tad more realistic about life in general. That said, most of them have gobs of money to begin with, but at least it’d be a step in the right direction, and save us a little money.

I also think a “pay as you go” amendment wouldn’t be a bad idea, if it was executed properly. More than that, each spending measure approved by congress should include some sort of forward progress, i.e. make the government more efficient/less spendy, until the debt is gone. For instance, if a bill is going to cost $500 million, it should be paid for at the rate of $600 million, with the excess going to reduce debt.

1 – No Obama Memorial built in DC yet
2 – Rich people still have a little bit of money that hasn’t been taxed
3 – Our grandkids still have a little bit of potential earnings that haven’t been spent
4 – Obama STILL hasn’t paid my mortgage
5 – Ditto for the pony I was supposed to get
6 – Sarah Palin’s not yet having been filleted in public and her uterus sent to the four corners of the nation as a warning
7 – Israel still exists
8 – No cure yet for sputtering incoherently while flailing one’s arms about and dancing on one foot, or as Joe Biden calls it, “Mellow Tuesdays”
9 – Opposition protesters still running around petitioning the Government for a redress of grievances like they have a freakin’ Constitutional right to do so or something
10 – Some Americans still haven’t been called racist, bigoted idiots yet by the government