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Initial recommendations for President Obama:

• Offer a $10 per hour national service job to anyone willing and able to work.

• Declare a payroll tax holiday and have the Treasury make all FICA payments at least until the economy is deemed to be ‘overheating.’

• Cut the national speed limit for private ground transportation to 30 mph to immediately reduce gasoline consumption (and save lives).

• Implement needed infrastructure spending for deferred maintenance.

• Suspend the Fed swap line program.

• Suspend a variety of the recent, counterproductive assistance programs to the financial sector.

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