May be an enjoyable workout, might also catch on as people continue to believe the economy is sinking and they can\'t do anything about it.  Too bad they are wrong! The American economy is strong, the American worker is a hard worker that takes pride in what they do, the American people are the best educated in the world (how else could we be filling the Universities with tens of thousands of new students each year).  The failure is not with the middle american the core Americans, the failure is with the bankers (who have graduated from those universities) the government, both parties who believe that what is good for America is business not the American people, and the industries of medical, banking and fuel/electricity who believe that the people of America are nothing but chumps to steal from (they are also from the cream of American Education system) these are the failures in America not the Middle Americans2010 who are working, paying their bills and will have to pay the grants to the failures from our government.

After beating that dead horse, yes I do feel better, here is what is needed to get America, not the whole world, but American going again.  First is to home owners who are working, cut the interest rate permanently by one half on their loans.  If you can\'t figure out the billions that would put into the American economy may be you should be a demo or Rep!  Second a grant to each state of one billion dollars. One third to existing companies and two thirds to start up or small growing companies.  By lottery and if you win the lotto your business plan has to have some merit.

Third to send a message to the world that America is going to take care of America first, then Canada and Mexico, then central and South America.  This is where our investments will be going.

Finally, not really but for this ramble, there is a car in America that gets 50 miles per gallon.  With little changes it can look like any two seat-er you could dream of.  That being the case, consider the results of a federal mandate that stated any person who drives to work has to drive a car that gets 50 miles per gallon or take public transportation.  These two real demands would put tens of thousands to work in the next few months.  The out come would be cutting all oil from outside the USA in three years.  We would/could control the cost of gas in America and destroy any cartel on fuel.

Casey, MiddleAmerican2010, real change not just an open credit card and crawling to the world!