National Security: Enforce government contracts more strictly, especially in the case of cost overruns so that we get more realistic bids on military projects. Eliminate pork in the military budget where congressmen are able to win money for military projects in their district in exchange for votes.

Health Care. Keep the free market free and private. Government should establish a database and require that medical providers list services and fees so that customers and patients can make informed decisions about where they purchase healthcare. Allow purchasing of insurance across state lines. Pass stricter guidelines about what insurance providers can do regarding pre-existing conditions so that folks wont be dropped in their time of need. Regulate advertising on television by Big Pharma so that people aren't convinced they need products they really don't. Do not eliminate the advertisement, just have a more detailed list of specifics that are required, especially if they make comparisons with competing products, including mention of which have generic counterparts. Pay doctors and hospitals 100% of the cost for medicare/medicaid don't shortchange them like at present.

Foreign Aid: Make it only available for national security interests or disaster relief for reliable allies, make all other aid illegal until the deficit is paid off.

Space Exploration: Cut it back to projects that seem to have promise for technological innovation that could be commercially beneficial

Energy and Climate: Tap into available natural resouces like offshore oil to reduce dependence on other countries. Use the most modern tech to reduce environmental impact. Build more nuclear facilities from a uniform blueprint so that cost are reduced and the workforce and equipment is easier to transfer.

In General: Reduce federal aid to the States in which a state must adopt a federal one size fits all approach. Give the funds to the states to spend as they within a broader range and make state come up with their own revenues to pay for some items. The States should not be held hostage to federal monies.

Eliminate the Department of Housing and Urban Development altogether, this should be done by the states and cities, not the federal government.

Place the office of the United States Trade Representative under the Department of Commerce to reduce redundancy.

National Security. We are a bankrupt superpower being drained with diminishing resources in money and manpower. The Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan are not the same people who harbored terrorists who hijacked our planes on Sept. 11, 2001. Why field a standing army of 150,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan when we fight the same terrorists in Pakistan, Sudan, Somalia and Indonesia with special operation forces, the CIA and drones?

Bring the all troops home, close all Non-Naval bases outside of the continental US. Downsize the Army, get rid of the Air Force, slim down the Navy and beef up the Marine Corps, cut the Military Budget down to one third of what it is today, and butt out of other peoples business.

Foreign Aid. Cut it to humanitarian purposes only.

You do realize that we give very little in foreign aid and most of that goes to Israel, Egypt & Colombia to buy weapons so they can kill their neighbors.

Space Exploration. Put it on hold and redirect the brain trust to national defense measures such as developing missile defenses, IED detection devices and improved satellite surveillance technology.

Space exploration is pretty much a positive, more money should probably be spent on robot exploration and studying asteroids to see what minerals are possibly exploitable. Missile Defense is a sad joke, how billions have we pissed away in research for some defenses that can be defeated for a few hundred Ks. IEDs detection devices: why waste the time and money, just butt out of other people's business and you won't need them.

Energy and Climate. Reduce and eliminate dependence on foreign fossil fuels by tapping into natural gas as a bridge to wind, solar, nuclear and electrical power as well as building a new electrical grid infrastructure. Tax credits to those who cooperate; tax penalties to those who don’t.

Sounds nice. After you have raised federal taxes on gasoline to at least $2.00 a gallon, come and talk to me about all that other stuff, that's when I know you are serious.

Health Care. Extend Medicare to all U.S. citizens. Subsidize private insurers to run the programs administered by the government comparable to the way in which Medicare Part D is now handled for drug coverage but with the stipulation purchasing of drugs is based on competitive bidding. Tort reform and capping malpractice awards must be imposed.

The only way to control cost & cover everyone is a single payer system. Why should we subsidize private insurers to do what we can do ourselves for less money?
BTW. Texas has had tort reform and caps, and the cost of health-care hasn't gone down…

All of the above are problems, but really they are just a symptom of globalization. As long as you can manufacture goods in China and other third world rat-holes using “slave labor” (No Unions, Starvation wages, No regulations, Child Labor, No overtime, Company Goons), no manufacturing will be done in the US and the wealth of the country will keep trickling out…