Millions of needy local and inner city Americans and legally resident aliens get the good skills and jobs - and taxpayers get unburdened. Skillsizing engages market forces to raise wages and dismantles minimum wage laws, giving trainees a smooth stepladder into the job market. Wages rise enough to match postwar leaps in worker output and provide domestic markets for that output. Runaway inflation is countered by market-integrated volunteerism. The income gap closes and the middle class returns.
Consumer spending expands.
Gov- ernment is dismantled and taxes cut responsibly. Skillsizing offers family time to rebuild family values - the kind of time we had 30 years ago when one working parent could support the whole family. Hyde is an independent who runs as a Republican because he favors smaller government. He is a fiscal conservative and a social centrist. He believes we should be moving toward regular referendums to temporarily resolve controversial issues - we already have the necessary technology.