I think...

I think:

• Our government elites need to be taken down a peg. 
• We should reduce their exorbitant salaries, provided at taxpayer expense.
• We should remove their elitist health care, provided at taxpayer expense.
• We should redirect those exorbitant salaries to military salaries, especially those in harm's way.
• We should redirect those elitist health care plans to the wounded veterans currently being given short shrift by said government. 
• We should sever the continuing corruption cycle of the corporate-government revolving door policy.  Pick one or the other, not both.
• We should prosecute law breakers and wrongdoers, regardless of current position or government title.
• We should dismantle the Democratic Socialist Regime we currently have and return to an actual Republic, where an individuals rights cannot be taken away by a slick lawyer and or a well run ad campaign, even after some disaster that is not related to that person occurs and scares some people.
• We should redefine "eminent domain" as a concept requiring a "burden of proof" on the petitioner rather than the current owner. 
• We should DISCONTINUE all foreign aid, except possibly disaster relief, until and unless unemployment drops to a minimal level.  
• We should discontinue the practice of using our military to police the world, shore up dictatorships or overthrow democracies or functioning regimes regardless of certain sectors of the populace's feelings about said regimes. 
• We should re-examine the choke hold that unions have on labor and management in the U.S. today with a view to becoming economically competitive INSIDE our own borders again. 
• We should remind ourselves that religion has NO PLACE in government.  The Founding Fathers, nominal Christians mostly, agreed that the separation of church and state was essential.  Religious opinions are and should be kept as personal matters, rather than statutory issues. 
• We should regain the concept that there are many places and issues that government really has NO say in, unless some person comes to some form of harm.
• We should clean up the court system, simplify, streamline, and restore responsibility to the bench.  Judges and lawyers should be responsible for THEIR actions as well as their clients.
• We should restore the concept of responsibility to police, judges, lawyers, civil servants, government employees, military personnel, individual citizens.  RESPONSIBLE for their own actions or lack of actions. 
• We should restore this responsibility to the concept of SELF-DEFENSE.  A person is ultimately responsible for his own defense and that of his family.  No one can RELY on someone else for that defense.  (Even if a person HIRES some person or agency for that purpose, it is on that person.) 

End Part I