Qualitative Re-Alignment of U.S. Economy Urgently Needed

The financial depression of the U.S. economy could be viewed by our President as an opportunity to insist on a comprehensively qualitative and wise re-alignment of our entire nation's economy.
For instance, President Obama could seize this opportunity to promulgate to the American people his Administration's increasing reliance on innovative new environmental-protection-related indexes for evaluating the economy in the United States.
President Obama could also insist that those environmental-quality-minded and natural-resource-minded indexes for evaluating our nation's level of economic strength, and for evaluating each company's overall caliber, could also become increasingly influential as guides to be consulted by Wall Street investors and Wall Street analysts.
Among the wide array of additional qualitative priorities that Obama as our Chief of State could insist on being met as soon as possible are:
---the approval by the U.S. Congress of a Nationwide minimal housing standards and minimal commercial structure standards act. At present, many of the so-called "new" buildings look as if they were tossed together overnight, with no one, least of all the architect, having any expectation that that building would last more than 10 or 20 years.
Architects and builders who are responsible for buildings not designed or built to last, are severely undermining the housing stock and integrity of this entire nation.
----the approval by the U.S. Congress of a new federal law requiring that each new commercial or residential building being constructed anywhere in this country must meet or exceeed minimal energy-efficiency and sound-proofing standards that, in the latter case, protect occupants in and visitors to those buildings from being victimized by noise pollution.
----the approval by the U.S. Congress of a new federal law imposing a nationwide ban on construction of one-story buildings. That proposed new federal law would help to conserve land, including wilderness land and agricultural land or ranchland, throughout this nation, while promoting an admirably compact style of commercial and residential property development in each village, town, suburb, and city.
---the approval by the U.S. Congress of a nationwide sidewalk construction plan that sets minimal federal standards for sidewalk-access by pedestrians that each municipality must meet or exceed.
---a 20 percent increase, if applicable, by each and every American household or citizen in their household's or their own level of participation in natural-resource recycling in 2009, as compared with last year.
---promulgation to our entire nation of President Obama's view that each American home owner who installs solar panels or wind-power generators on the property of that home is "helping to protect the national security of the United States, and the integrity of this country."
The relationship between homeowners' lifestyle conduct in that way, and protection of the military security and public safety and intregity of the American people and American society, is a theme that our Chief of State should be repeatedly and very eloquently making in public speeches during this period.
----promulgation of the emphatic view that President Obama seeks to help purge or eliminate the "illicit sectors of our national economy" from our nation's economy. President Obama could do that by establishing a special federal career-retraining program aimed at helping illicit-drug-dealers who confess their crime and seek to turn over a new (NON-marijuana) leaf, to learn how to enter the LICIT (LEGAL) economy of this country and financially support themselves in a law-abiding manner.
Thus far, I have not heard of any training program aimed at helping drug dealers to find a way to become financially successful in a law-abiding and honorable manner.