The Power Elite are just Too Smart

Akin to maculear degeneration an unfortunate and dangerous tunnel vision plagues those who spend too much time in Washington. Well intended brilliant public servants transform into myopic and detached power brokers. One of my favorite lines in the movie Forest Gump is the retort Forest gives to Bubba's mom. She says "what, are you stupid or something",..to which Forest says "stupid is as stupid does". The clarity of this statement is that despite appearances, resumes, degrees and experience; a stupid act is stupid even if it is wrapped in the trappings of a double doctorate authored position paper.

I'm just a farm boy from Delaware but I have not spent much time dancing the Potomac Two Step and humbly offer these thoughts as positions that would best serve the country;

1) Move the economy beyond a reliance on foreign oil
*Make this a National Imperative and priority
*Use tax incentives to stimulate the private sector
*Divert transportation revenue towards this goal

2) Secure the borders of the nation
*Comprehensive Reform means we accomplish nothing

3) Conduct interior employer enforcement
*Throw employers who hire illegals in jail

4) Move all US Troops to the perimeter of Iraq (protect their borders)
*get out of the cities, save American lives
*allow the Iraqis to determine their own fate (even if they have to duke it out)
*Keep Al Qaeda, Saudi's, Iranians, and Syrians out
(practice border control there and then import the skill at home)

5) Reduce Federal spending (back to Reagan's vision)

6) Shift educations mandate to future-centric curriculum
*Graduate more engineers, stop importing them