My husband is a small business owner who has consistently grown in this economy.
Last master welder with an artistic background/training came from Michigan after being unemployed for three years. He had more than 400 resumes.
His HVAC business - every.single.job opening they are bombarded.
Me? I work at HQ at a major telecom.
For both of us -
Put one skilled laborer to work on Public Works Project - Preferably Green Based. They spend money. The places they spend money spend money (b2b). This creates a tax paying employee, who spends more money. And so on and so forth.
Very very simplified - but if a backhoe driver makes enough money to pay a tax preparer, then the tax preparer has enough money to pay for that green energy item for her home, the green energy employee has enough money to pay for a new patent with an attorney, that attorney now has more money for a new paralegal, the paralegal decides to buy a new car . . . he buys the new car from the sales woman at the Fiat dealership, etc. etc.
Other two things - tax me. No seriously. What is this problem people have taxing us> I wrote it this weekend and yet again - tax our two person family at a serious rate - not a joke rate. Oh - and keep taxing me on everything I earn for SS. Then give our seniors a raise - So our seniors can spend money they aren't spending now.
It's simple - to make money you have to spend money. So tax me at a rate that we can spend money, so people can earn money, so they can spend money, and so on and so forth.
Maybe it's my telecom marketing (product management, product launch, etc. etc.) and more than 15 years in a smoke in mirrors business - but it seems so simple. One more thing . . . my husband is a juried artist - who figured out how to make a living 'metal art' that is what he is and is doing more and more every day - hence hiring master welders to create his designs for homes/business/buildings or do the physical restoration work so he can focus on sculpting.
Eventually all the money will trickle up to the VERY rich who buy his artowrk and the whole system just keeps things circulating and going. 
Not giving you a hard time - but I see the difference $40 an hour can make to a man with 15 years experience who just needed a shot. I've seen what starting at $18 an hour as a level one welder can do for a young black woman who grew up in Camden but some guy from Italy moved here, started a business, gave her a shot at learning a skill and just 5 years later . . . she is hanging (earlier today) from a church in Belgium at twice the hourly rate restoring the 4 year old iron work around stained glass.
It works.
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