If I were King, I would create jobs by some combination of the following:
1. Student loan forgiveness or restructuring. This would free up money in the hands of our young people so they can do what we all did in our 30s, start a family, buy a house, start building a life.
2. Massive ten year funding for infrastructure. No more one year budgets, move this to a 10 year plan, fund it without compromise, take the first year to analyse, prioritize, forecast, budget, plan etc so that you have a real plan in place with projects that are not pork but really necessary. We did this a long time ago with dams, roads, bridges, trails, etc. Lets get going now. Trump is right about one thing, some of our airports are a disgrace. JFK, La Gaurdia, LAX they all suck. Make them look like Singapore or Hong Kong.
3. All income taxed at same rate except long term capital gains. This will help funding and stop this mindless quarter by quarter madness.
4. Enforce the anti-trust laws and stop letting companies merge. I cannot stand it when competitors merge, no one wins but shareholders and executives. Every time anyone buys a company, half of one gets whacked. Stop this nonsense.
5. Take a hard look at all new trade deals. Trump is right about this one too. Get union leaders on every negotiating team. Someone has to look out for us.
6. Encourage the creation of public trade schools where you come out of it fully trained and certified. Give the trades who employ these graduates some form of advantage in all public bids.
7. Isolate, confiscate and annihilate off shore banking tax havens. Repatriate deposits if necessary but lets get that money back into play again.
8. Have a 10 year energy policy that moves us to renewables.
9. Fully fund pure research in all disciplines. Can we get those guys who ran Xerox, Bell Labs, HP, IBM, etc to come out and start something like them again?
10. Fully fund broadband access at 1 gig per home replacing all existing copper plant.
Those are my ideas. I know it will cost money but that money will be circulated over and over again and these things are investments that will make a difference for our kids. Our kids are inheriting the mess from free market theories that resulted in this hopeless situation. Us boomers need to admit we screwed up a good thing, our parents left us with the goose that laid the golden eggs and we ate the goose.