The One Question that will stump ALL your Republican friends...

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32. In other words, cuts taxes on the wealthy, slash regulations, and lower wages

This is not a winning recipe for anyone except the very rich.

And there's no reason to believe, for example, that fracking and increased drilling will lower energy costs, since those are driven by global demand and not by domestic supply. In fact, higher energy costs are more likely to bring jobs back to the U.S., since they will make it less economically efficient to offshore production and then re-import the finished products.

The greatest strength of this country is that it still provides the world's strongest market for goods and services. Our first priority should be ensuring the health of that market -- which means keeping wages up and relieving the burden of debt, particularly on young people and families. Our second should be providing the conditions to attract domestic production, from education to infrastructure. Our third might involve an attempt to restore the reputation the U.S. used to have as a source of high-quality, innovative products.

But bribing corporations and corporate executives, either with lower taxes or with third-world working conditions, is a non-starter.