I see three major issues that must be corrected before we can even begin to think about the economy. (1) We have the highest percent of single parent homes and the highest percent of teenage pregnancies in the world. We must rebuild the family unit, teach our children the basics of what we had to learn .... discipline, morals, ethics, self-respect, self-reliance. (2) Our educational system is broken ... even our teachers and administrators change test scores and engage in sex with students. A country won't prosper when its citizens can't read and write, can't critically think, and don't know the Constitution. (3) Take the federal government back to its original job description ... arbitrate disputes between the states, provide for a common defense, conduct foreign policy, collect monies for those tasks ... and move everything else back to the state level where it can be controlled by the people.

Until we rebuild our foundation, we won't fix the economy and we won't have Conservative principles. We can pretend all we want, apply a multitude of bandaids, make more and more changes to regulate more and more people, spend more and more money, but if the foundation remains broken ... it "ain't" going to matter.