I BELIEVE in a five year plan to eliminate the national deficit. This can best be accomplished by working from the top down:

A. An immediate reversal of the legislation and policies that have put us so deeply in the red. This must be the primary fiscal focus of our government. Currently we are adding about 10,000 new Federal employees every month. We must stop this growth in its tracks and put this money wasting train in reverse.

B. Stop printing ‘phony money’ that is based upon nothing. Look at the nations who have followed the path we are on now and see how they were destroyed by runaway inflation. We cannot do the same thing and expect different results. We must take our hits for the mistakes already made and hunker down to sound fundamental economic polices as individuals, business entities and government agencies.

C. Stop trying to put a band aid on the cancer of our economy with massive bailouts. Giving money to the people who caused the problems we are now facing is like rewarding a thief in hopes that he will stop robbing you. Let the marketplace make or break itself. If companies fail because of bad business practices so be it. How else will they learn the value of good practices?

D. Stop offering lifetime job security and benefits to non-productive government employees. Put the government pay and benefit scale on par with the common citizenry and demand the same work ethic as does the marketplace.

E. Invest in the American people to re-establish our historical roots as THE nation of innovation and production in the world. This will take a cooperation of individuals, companies and government working hand in hand toward this agenda. It will also include giving incentives to those who will quit sending their production overseas and focus on effective and innovative development here in America.

F. Stop being the Worlds Welfare Check. Independent charities and religious entities do a much better job of reaching the people who need help in the world. We can save billions annually by supporting their efforts and accomplish more in the process. Too often our government aid ends up in the storehouses of dictators and enemies of freedom who are actually causing the problems. We must avoid the trap of “our enemy’s enemy is our friend”. Because of this thinking we have created and empowered new enemies who have stepped in to take the place of old ones. See Iran and Al Qaeda as recent examples of this failed foreign policy.