The Five Pillars

The Five Pillars of Prosperity seem reasonable: More and Better Public Education, Building and Modernizing Infrastructure (they make a good point about how we have come to accept the shoddy state of ours versus other nations), Smart Immigration Policy (they want more of our citizens qualified for high tech jobs, but believe we still have room and a need for new citizens), Increase Basic Science Research (Americans spend more on potato chips), Improve / Implement Necessary Regulations (we can't afford to have Wall street drive us off the cliff again, but they recognize some existing regulations impede rather than improve our progress). They keep hammering home the idea that we will need to cut spending and raise revenues to achieve long term success (yeah, raise taxes: never not been done during wartime - we've waged 2 for 10 years and got tax cuts) . Unfortunately, this is troublesome for politicians who are too busy trying to win re-election to focus on the the job of governing (i.e. solving problems). This requires them to back off their extreme positions in order to compromise. Remember when that wasn't a dirty word? I am not saying this would be easy, but it's got to be better than the present state of sabotage politics.