I agree on some of your points, Doug.

1. Drop current the trillion dollar plan to designed to convert our current excellent health care system into one that mirrors single payer plans in other countries. It is just too expensive and he and his Democrat cohorts risk bankrupting the country.

Both disagree...and agree. Drop the trillion dollar plan? Yes. It's a giveaway to the wrong people. However, your current health system is not excellent at all, it's one of the very worst in the entire developed world. A single payer plan such as is in place in most other democracies would be far better.

2. Focus on ways to improve the economy, and that includes cutting costs, not increasing them.

Yeah....sort of. The best way to cut costs, Doug, is to turn your money back into REAL money again, money that is backed up by REAL gold and silver reserves. End the giant monopoly money game pyramid scheme that is being played by the big banks and the Federal Reserve. They create billions of dollars out of thin air by making loans, dollars that aren't backed by up anything but an unreal pyramid of debt, debt that can never realistically be paid off and never will be paid off. Abolish the Federal Reserve after a one or two year period of converting the Federal Reserve Notes back into the REAL money (gold and silver certificates and gold and silver coin). Abolish the practice of allowing the banks to lend out at least 10 times the amount of money that their depositors (the general public) have lent them.

3. Focus on ways and means to create jobs in the private sector, not in government.

I'm all in favor of that, Doug. Where does one end and the other begin, though? The reason I ask that is...the Federal Reserve pretends to be a federal entity, but it's not. It's a private cartel of big bankers. However, it's become so entwined with the government in various ways that it can be said to be a sort of hybrid...halfway between a private entity and a government entity. The real question is...does the government run the Fed...or is it the other way around? ;-)

4. Do not allow the Bush tax cuts to expire.

I'm not knowledgable enough about that to comment.

5. Cut corporate taxes and capital gains taxes.

Perhaps. Experience has shown that when big business is taxed, they simply pass their new expenses on to the public in the form of higher prices for goods....and the public pays the tax increase! Further to that, when the banks create a giant speculation bubble through totally irresponsible lending practices, the government bails them out and the public pays for the bailout!!! They pay for it through their taxes (which are used to service the national debt) and through inflation.

Both Bush AND Obama favored that bailout. Remember?

What you don't get, Doug, is that the Republican and Democratic parties both serve the richest corporate entities and largest banks in your land, and the public pays the price. Not sometimes. Always. Obama is carrying on much the same way. His rhetoric sounds different from Bush. His actual performance is quite similar...because he is serving the same entrenched interests Bush did.

The party game is there to keep you mesmerized and divided against one another so that you never see the little man behind the screen (Wizard of Oz reference). All you see is the latest "Magnificent Oz" who occupies the Oval Office...and his party. That's an illusion.