I want solutions, not feelings.

I was raised in a lower middle class family, went to public schools, drafted into the military, graduated from night school college in Maryland, undertook a business career. Worked in sales, investments and investment banking, retail, mail order, business and marketing consulting, and publishing.

Now registered as an Independent, voted every opportunity all my life. Believe in Democracy and capitalism, in free markets and individual opportunity. Want to see my children and grandchildren earn a better life in a world where individual freedom and privacy is respected, where government is limited to "defense for the common good," and domestic and foreign policy is strictly oriented to preserving and improving a society driven by respect for the individual, with consciousness of the value of each, and rewards in proportion to effort.

There are capitalistic solutions for most societal problems; we have to be tough enough to accept them.

Dropouts in a free society are a result of the failure of parenting and culture to expect more, not less; of failure to provide more in the way of personal commitment, not less.

It is not our society and culture's responsibility to take care of people; it IS our responsibility to provide opportunity for them to care for themselves. Nonetheless, there are those who, through no fault of their own, become wards of society. Besides preventing the failures that allowed these unfortunates to become the responsibility of all of us, it is the job of society from a capitalistic perspective to support the charitable organizations which take the responsibility of caring for these wards of society. What does that mean?

More about the role of taxes and charity in the future, and how culture needs to replace government in dealing with societal problems.

Evolution in the Darwinian sense must be allowed to work, otherwise we are all diminished by the stress of constantly lowered standards of behavior, of conduct, of performance.

The society and government envisioned by our Founders is in danger.

It can and must be saved.