Cut government bureaucracy and waste by eliminating several unnecessary agencies and positions, cut taxes, cut useless social programs, reduce regulation on small businesses and the financial sector, tort reform, stop printing money+ devaluing our currency, pass a balanced budget amendment, substantially reduce foreign aid, pull our troops out of Libya, explore and drill for oil and other natural resources on our own land so we can stop funding Islamic terrorism and making foreign companies rich, put the global warming agenda hoax to bed for good along with the "green jobs" scam, end ethanol subsidies, repeal Obamacare, impose mandatory term limits on elected officials, eliminate the increasingly blurred distinction between the public and private sector, etc. etc. etc.
I can go on forever. My solution is the exact opposite of everything that the liberal agenda stands for.
The US credit rating was downgraded exclusively because we spend too much money. The interest payments we make on the debt owed to the Chinese is financing their military. We are almost at a point where we spend more on debt than our GDP. We do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.
As to everything else you wrote, its completely ridiculous to compare nameless, unidentified countries to the United States at present time with the subjective/strawman assertion that the "average" citizen lives much better elsewhere. Where are these countries? Which countries are you referring to?
