What will it take to get America to full and productive employment again?  Here’s a few ideas:  ensure students get the skills and education to compete and be successful; complete new trade agreements to expand America’s exports; cut the deficit and rein in government spending; keep taxes low and seriously reform regulations and regulatory agencies’ missions.  Of course it wouldn’t hurt if we had some huge technological advancement like we did in the 1990’s that skyrocketed productivity and employment during that period.  We need more entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.  But until then, we can:  halt the implementation of Pelosi’s 2000 page health care law and the resulting 10,000 pages of regulations; mandate E-verify nationwide; hold fast on the eroding power of unions; promote flexibility in the workplace by allowing options such as receiving time off work rather than pay for work over 40 hours for non-exempt workers; promote inclusion of workers and students with disabilities; replace outdated laws (FLSA for one!) and non-value-adding regulations and executive orders; increase visas for those with science, engineering and math skills; replace Pelosicare with provisions for individuals and small businesses to form purchasing pools for insurance coverage; promote health care price transparency so health care consumers KNOW what they are buying; urge state governors to rein in public sector unions to control costs associated with employee benefits (including paid sick leave payouts upon terminations) and retirement programs — and specifically move toward employer-employee shared insurance premium, health care costs and retirement savings; repeal the Davis-Bacon Act; restore the NLRB to non-partisan status; oppose amnesty for those who knowingly violate our laws and thereby disadvantage those who obey our laws; work for a nation-wide “right-to-work” status — making it unlawful for a union to collect fees from non-union employees; halt lawsuits against Arizona, end federal funding to universities that provide tuition reduction to illegal immigrants; and enact legislation to codify the requirement that all union elections be determined by secret ballot under NLRB supervision.    Note:  many of the above ideas are from the SHRM 9-4-2012 report, GOP Platform Addresses the American Workplace.