Policies for a Moderate and Reasonable America

Politics has become too much of a blame game. A game of "Gotcha" without winners or productive results. It's time to layout a road map for America that sets out the hard questions and makes the hard choices. Too often, in the past, these types of approaches have been politically motivated. The direction is always tainted by partisan pandering, special-interest influence and ideological focus. What I want to do is layout the issues and talk through a reasonable solution to each of them. Each problem will have a set of principles laid out with it. Far from being rigid ideological principles, these are principles that should guide, but not control, the solution. If a solution is a good, sound solution that necessarily violates one of the principles then it should be considered.

The issues with the biggest importance at the moment are:

Energy Independence
Financial Market Reform
Social Security
National Debt
Iraq War
Terrorism
America's World Wide Police Actions
Size of Government
Role of Political Parties
Structure of Government
Education in America

Some of these, I've already discussed. Some of them need further discussion. If there are specific topics that you feel should be discussed, post them and I'll add them.