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Jim Cramer’s suggestion of sending tons of people up to work in the Bakken Shale in North Dakota is great for a start. But how would this employ all the working moms and people who can’t do heavy physical work or folks who can’t travel. We need a proposal that offers a quick turnaround for across the board profiles – just like a business. We need to keep it simple. Here it is:

1. Progressively tax companies that outsource customer service jobs, call centers, help/support desks, technology until all those jobs are repatriated. Americans shouldn’t be talking to Indians and Filipinos when we call our banks and US companies for questions and service. technology jobs can come later – Go for the quick return – Customer Service.
2. Massive accelerated cleanup and elimination of fraud and malfeasance in Defense, State, SSA, Medicare, Medicaid + other Gov programs. That’s probably $2 trillion or more. This happens concurrently with number one, but gets announced immediately.
3. Fund private job skills and training businesses, get companies to invest some of that stockpiled cash in these businesses and offer tax incentives for hiring their students as interns.

My point is that we can attach immediate, recognizable action (hirings) to backfill the newly American created customer service jobs. This is an excellent place to start because customer service training isn’t rocket science or a revolution/evolution and can happen quickly. The country needs fast results. The rooting out of fraud and malfeasance can begin immediately managed by some business head like Howard Schultz or Donald Trump – someone who is very good at creating efficiencies in operations not some politician. Same deal for the re-education and training segment. Companies should be investing according to their size. In other words IBM and Apple should be very large contributors to this funding. The small business in Iowa with 100 people should be asked to contribute relatively little. The big guys need to carry some weight on this one and they’ve been doing all the outsourcing and not reinvesting in America.