About Our Economy..... Some ideas from "Uncle Bob"

This was sent to me for one of my former co-workers...... Food for thought. What do you think?

Hi Mike, it's nice to see that you have mellowed out in your old age!

The only thing saving this Country now is that we are not on the Gold Standard, our currency is "still" the world standard, and we own the printing press.

Here are a few views on how to fix some of our problems.
1. Transfer over to a value added tax system.
2. the IRS agents that are no longer needed, place 1 in every hospital in the country, to be in charge of auditing medicare billing and have an increasing fine structure against Doctors and establishments who overbill or bill for services not rendered.
3. Bring the corporate heads of all major Companies to Washington and give them the task of How to bring jobs back to America. If they are unable to suceed, let them know that the Govt. will have to impose such penalities on imports that it may not be financially feasible for them to sell their products in the USA.
4. Put penalities on ALL politicians who accept bribes in any way shape or form, including manidatory jail time in the Az. Desert, and a ban from any future political position.
5. Eliminate Lobbyists.
6. This is a no brainer that would solve alot of our present labor and housing problems:
We currently have 11.5mil more houses than families to occupy them.
Any foreclosed house or commercial structure that falls back to Fannie or Freddie , and cannot be sold for more than land value within 30 days, first sell the salvage rights (for recycleing), then bulldose them to the ground and clean up the lot. Once the Supply is reduced below demand, prices will stabilize and start going back up, Contractors and laborers will be put back to work, America will start producing the supplies needed to keep up with the new demand.
Freddie and Fannie, sit on the lots until they can sell them for a fair price, little maintenance or liability.

We are in Bullhead City, Az. for the winter, everyone carries a gun and there is very little crime,.