• Education is the root of much good, and lack of education is what I blame for many evils. Most people who claim they need special dispensation because they are somehow disadvantaged probably need more education.
• Health Care should be something everyone gets and noone worries about. Some things work better when we all go in on it together, and Health care looks like it's one of those. We would have more cost effective, more efficient, and for 90+% of the people better care under a Universal Health Care plan. One consequence of this may be that we need to put government research laboratories to work making medicine more cost effective. Research on drug production methods and surgical procedures most likely.
• Space Exploration is really neat and we should do more of it. Justification: Exploration for its own sake, valued intrinsically. Spin offs.
• The Military is way too big. One quarter of all federal taxes go to it. If you wonder where the money for any proposed program is going to come from, this is the answer.
• The Tax structure is not fair. We need to re-balance the combination of income tax, property tax and sales tax. Within those, especiallly income tax, we need to make sure that who pays how much is fair. Currently the people on the low end are getting squeezed too much.
• The Budget should be balanced (Duh). We should reduce spending to do it while keeping taxes unchanged. Taxes cannot be reduced until the first problem is fixed (Duh).
• The debt must go. Paying interest is stupid. For further justification see The Motley Fool.
• Issue no more bonds. Bonds are dumb. We have enough money flowing in we shouldn't need to borrow ahead for anything. Bonds wind up to be just a way of giving money to people who allready have enough.
• Guns are obsolete. Aside from hunting they have no use. Self defense can be accomplished with non-leathal weapons like those that have recently been developed and put into use by police forces around the country. I would fully support firearm-free metropolitan areas.
• The electoral college has got to go. The current election system has locked us in to a corrupt pattern where only two 'choices' will ever be offered to the people. We need a direct election with a better voting system. Either ranked voting or acceptance voting.
• Nationally accepted and available 'civil union' or 'personal incorporation' of any shape to fill the role traditionally played by marriage.
• Zero Population Growth. I am in favor of social programs that will encourage the responsible behavior in child bearing. I believe the best way is for all women to have two or fewer children. I ask that people do this of their own free will without bonus or penalties provided. I want to remove tax incentives beyond 2 children. We shouldn't pay anyone to have more. This could be taken sightly further by decreasing the tax credit for a second child. Overpopulation in the US isn't severe enough to push beyond that I think. This is a delicate issue and I don't want penalties to stray into dystopian nightmaires. Needs more thought, suggestions welcome.
• Decriminalization of drug use. Addiction is a medical problem with medical solutions. Substances with acceptable consequences should be legal, regulated for safety and taxed. (alcohol, nicotine, THC, etc) Distributing drugs should be punishable by laws akin to prescription drug violations.
• English as a national language is a good idea. I think it would smooth integration of foreign cultures if they could communicate more easily with the people already here. One of those 'open a dialogue' kind of radical thoughts.
• Religion and Politics. If you want to talk Theology and find out what I believe to know more about who I am, fine, let's talk Theology. But if you want to find out how my beliefs are going to affect my policy as an elected official then I say that I believe in the separation of church and state and that we should do our best to neither establish nor interfere with the practice of religion. As far as I am able I will do what is in the best interest of all people of all beliefs.

Geek version

• Education *= 2;
• foreach citizen in *; healthcare++;
• NASA++;
• Military *= /*.5*/ .75;
• deficit = 0; /*surplus preferrable, work on that later */
• const int payofftime = 7;/* a guess at the magic number of years */
  double payoffrate = debt / payofftime;
  for ( int year = now; year < payofftime; year++ )
  debt -= payoffrate; /* see http://www.fool.com */
• kill -9 bonds
• guns--;
• delete electionSystem.presidential;
  electionSystem.presidential = new DirectRankedVotingSystem();
• Union( Person[] );
• /* FIXME implement feedback limiting to controll population and move it toward an optimal size */