Nationalize the credit industry entirely. Then nationalize the oil industry, just because everything going wrong with the economy right now comes back to fuel prices. All profits are deposited into the federal treasury. Meanwhile, reorganize them so as to make them more efficient and less corrupt. Then, once all their books are straightened out, re-privatize the bulk of the credit industry, but keep a national bank for the private banks to compete with.

For the oil industry, I'm not convinced we should ever re-privatize them. It's simply not in the nation's best interests to do so. Make them a permanent part of the Department of Energy and take their foot off the neck of alternative energy resources.

Stop our overseas adventures. Work on a long-term plan to completely turn over our overseas bases and their respective missions to the host countries. Make our allies true partners rather than client states, and let them carry some of the load in preserving order. That would be a 10 year plan. Slice the Pentagon's budget accordingly, and convert the bulk of our active duty force into rapid-mobilizing guard and reserves.

Take 10% of the money saved from cuts in military spending (which I estimate to be in the billions of dollars) to fund a new Department of Peace (yes, I used to think this idea of Dennis's was geeky; I've come around), elevating the Peace Corps to department-level status and launching peace operations from current military installations. Offer incentive pay to career military personnel who would be looking at being kicked out of the service before retirement due to the reduction in force to roll their years of service over to service in the Peace Corps and train officers for the Peace Corps the way we do for our military.

Change the world.

To name a few things. Now seems like as good a time as any.