Goals

Our goals are to civilize and rationalize the national dialogue, and in the process help America seek effective solutions to its problems. We also want the United States to be a big idea nation again, with projects like high-speed rail, modern infrastructure, and the best healthcare, science, and education.

We want our economics based on rational budgets, with Keynesian spending when necessary and Keynesian cutting when that is appropriate. We think TARP was a good thing, and saved the world economy. We do not think Obama's stimulus, though, was a stimulus, but rather a handout to teachers, unions, cronies, and government jobs. We do believe a stimulus was necessary, and might be required again. However, we feel we can pay for things like infrastructure by reforming entitlements, without taking money away from recipients who need it.

We will not sign any pledges with regard to taxes. Rather, we will support the lowest possible taxes that can fund the world's number one nation. This will include tax reform, including a three-tiered flat tax that will lower taxes overall but bring in more revenue.

We want to listen to both conservative economists, like the late Milton Friedman, and liberals like Paul Krugman.

We seek the strongest national defense in the world, but we are against over-extending ourselves in ten-year wars. We ought to define our military goals, and execute them full-bore, getting out quickly when our limited objectives are met. We are not about nation building or creating democracies. We will support these, but it is not our business to tell any other nation how to conceive themselves.

We want a great nation again, dominated by excellence and not by petty name-calling.