answer:1. Raising taxes, cutting government programs, or some combination thereof, so that the budget is balanced and we start to pay down the federal deficit. 2. Killing the H1B visa program for technological workers. When large companies say “There aren’t enough technical workers!” what they mean is “There aren’t enough technical workers stupid enough to work for what we want to pay!” 3. Putting together a serious, credible plan with measurable intermediate objectives for getting us out of Iraq and leaving behind a stable, self-governing country or countries where Iraq used to be. 4. Eliminating “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” Truman had the backbone to tell the armed forces that segregation based on race was wrong, and would not be the policy in the armed forces; Clinton, unfortunately, was too wishy-washy, and just transformed the problem. 5. Invest research money in alternative energy research.