I vote we ask Mr Pope to solve it

Well I, the average lazy and uninterested high school student, know little about the workings of the American economic system that has been sculpted by hundreds of years and thousands of individuals who consider themselves experts in this field; but here is my shot at "Fixing" it. The economy, from my point of view, seems fine, and the only think wrong with it would be everybody complaining about its management. So lets do a quick refresh of management positions, and see how much that pacifies the people of whom I identify as a problem. I also think that we spend way too much money in China; everything is made in china. We have some stupid amount of money that we owe china for all that stuff they make us; the only solution I can conceive is that we nuke China. Just kidding, we need to erect a good old fashioned tariff and just prey that China doesn't get mad about their lost income and attack.

We kind of seem to be stuck in the deepest hole ever dug; in history. We cannot put up super high tariffs because other countries will become more hostile towards us, or would stop trading with us. Also we cannot simply use violence to rid our debt, that is very frowned upon by the UN. The only thing we can do, in this age, is internal improvements of education, jobs, and agriculture; the world today is far too organized and well connected for us to do anything that could be considered 'rude' to another country, we would be drawing negative feelings our way along with a little seasonal extra cash.