Open more direct trade between nations to increase competition to lower cost for buyers and to improve prices for the seller. Direct trade with Mexico alone will provide more than $31 billion in economic stimulus to the US. Provide capital necessary to facilitate direct trade. The problem exists for both exporters and importers in different parts of the world.
    Promote economic education so consumers understand that when they buy goods and services from workers who are paid a living wage, they themselves can be employed with a good wage because they have someone who can buy their goods and services. If consumers buy goods and services from companies that pay their workers poorly, they themselves will not have someone to buy their goods and services.
    This simple shift in policy will create jobs and lower the US unemployment rate, particularly the rate of long term unemployment. It will also improve state and federal tax revenues sufficiently to pay for Medicare and Social Security entitlements and reduce illegal immigration around the world.