In “How to shock the U.S. economy back to life” Mark Thoma prescribes the “infrastructure pill”:
During the Great Recession, U.S. gross domestic production — the nation’s total output of goods and services — dropped below the trend rate of growth that prevailed before the collapse. More than five years into the recovery, the economy shows no signs of returning to that prior rate of growth.
Instead, as the following graph shows, although the economy is growing at roughly the same rate as before the crisis, the growth is from a much lower level of output:
Is this the “new normal” we hear so much about? Do Americans have no choice but to accept the lower level of output, and the lower level of employment and living standards that comes with it, or is there something we can do to push the economy back to the pre-Great Recession trend?
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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