Then take half the soldiers from bases across the globe back home? That way they could help the economy by working. Then increase COLA by 50% after the first year? Would that drop prices and gas prices and so forth would that make American prices drop considerably? Or what is the sure fire gurantee to get prices back to normal with out Corp gouging and gas under 2 bucks a gallon?
We are heavily dependent on oil in the US. In most places, if you do not have a car, you are severely limited on job prospects and other necessary things to live. Nothing gets cheaper, we pay for it in one way or another. For prices to come down, it would require good faith actors, who do not have fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to maximize profit and have unlimited growth. And in this economic system, bad faith is the stock and trade. This is why you never hear of growth-flation. Prices go up, quantities and sizes go down, and if we don’t like it, we are shit out of luck.
The president doesn’t have the power to do this own their own. It would take a ton of people working towards a common goal of a better society. And for most people, if it doesn’t make them money, they don’t care to try.
Wars have been started, heads of state have been kidnapped, millions have died, just for oil. Add to that that you are also attempting to reign in the military? You would be turning off the spigot for the most depraved people in the world. They’d make an example of you, for those that would try such a thing again. They would not even cover it up.