How can we increase consumer confidence and consumption?

Just wondering your thoughts as to how we might increase consumer confidence and consumption and why you think your idea will work.

What are some short-term and long-term ways to approach this problem?

given the weak US job market, it may take some time for consumption to be resilient; consumer confidence is just an indicator showing that how confident are consumers in spending in the near term; it’s not what consumers had spend;

expansionary monetary and fiscal policies can be used for short-term and long-term but again it’s up to the consumers to decide whether to spend or not; actually, the disposable income and consumption spending r related;