Carter Page Met Stefan Halper
This is going to be an Onion campaign, layer after layer before we get to Hillary and The Obamanation, but it will happen. I mean "Halper has been paid $928,800 since 2012 for work on four policy projects for the Pentagon" from this dufus is like saying "Put him on the Pentagon Payroll so we can use him when needed to schmarm his way into who we want to know more on".
We should remove support of all kinds for both the GOP and the Dems. They have both earned severe punishment for their sordid looting of the taxpayers in pursuit of power and wealth.
20% real participation would have the multinational corporations squirming in a few weeks and the first month results would be so severe that the government would hold back releasing them. A 20% drop in non-essential revenues would have the major chain store cowardly CEO's screaming at their bought congress-critters (threatening to stop and stopping corruption/election payments) and starting lay-offs with the first quarterly results.
Until that happens, the effect on those participating will be very little, and might actually have a positive effect on many upper middle class teens.
You say more localized action works better, but in the "great recession", retail spending was only drop 4.5%, services -1.6%, leisure/hospitality -4.5%. Total consumer spending was only down 1.9% comparing 2007 to 2009. See the chart in:
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/art...
Twenty percent reduction in non-essentials would be massive in retail and soon thereafter crushing on commercial real estate, and on the banksters holding commercial real estate debt. Commercial insurance smarmy CEO's would be screaming, too. The DOW would be down 5000 points in a few weeks and the easiest solution would be made obvious on billboards saying "Government Get Out of the Way."