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They say for property only one thing matters, location, location and location. As also, for any plan of action what matters is the priority of tasks.

Relating this to governance (and not my own messed up life!) I would say that it should focus on a few essentials before trying to fix everything else. The american minimalist approach to government would have us fix only defence and law and order as tasks.

Government does not have much to role in defence, except setting the overall strategic agenda and paying the army which pretty much does the rest. Congress has ensured its Chaupat raj by murdering the law and order situation by a sub 1% budget allocation.

My take on priority would be to add to the top, Welfare, and not much else to the list. A government that cannot look after the well being of its people has in fact no right to defend itself, nor to enforce its non-welfare objectives.

Welfare is all encompassing; and closely related to law and order. Government should make laws to ensure welfare and leave the rest to the enforcement branch. That is one roundabout way of looking at the basics from a textbook POV.

I would suggest a proactive, practical approach. Ensure no one is left deprived, hungry and without shelter, a basic right to a good life (style). Ensuring this much would be enough to to sky rocket the economy.

We should not be slaves to conventional, classical economic thought. Science keeps reinventing itself, gravity is a force, wave-like and perhaps particulate. The social (pseudo) sciences attempt to put a rigid framework for human society and behavior. When the inanimate (and thus simpler?) nature is difficult to define then why must we stick to rigidly defined views on human society?

Print money. Please. Spend. Spend. Spend. All on welfare; on our human capital. We are not here to serve money, the goddamn money is there to serve us, the people.

What inflation? Too much money, not enough production? How is that possible? (Zimbabwe, Venezuela show that it is in fact a huge problem) Pay people for productive tasks, not cycle of digging and filling holes. Make them build homes. Houses plus the basics of a household. Quite close to communistic model but with market economy fundamentals. Very very Low interest loan (Japan/USA/Euro style), recoverable after a long grace period to allow up-scaling of income to a good level. Then the people get to pay this back in low installments for their entire lifetime. Invest in people with confidence.

Economic models lack experimentation to validate their theories. Make people build cars, make them dig iron and coal, make them make steel, furniture, all items of consumption. Create production to help people get employed and paid. Not just helicopter money.

A Welfare state is what has evolved from communist and capitalist struggles in the core battleground of Europe.

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