A Different Kind of Campaign
Most candidates come to you with a list of issues.
I’m starting somewhere else: With the reason none of those issues ever get solved.
Our government is broken. Not damaged, not struggling: broken. Congress hasn’t passed a budget on time since 1997. Our national debt has grown from $5 trillion to over $39 trillion. We now spend more on interest than on national defense, and that money isn’t building anything.
Social Security and Medicare are heading toward insolvency. Healthcare costs more here than anywhere else in the developed world, and it keeps going up. Most families are working harder than their parents did and have less to show for it.
These aren’t separate problems. They’re symptoms of the same one.
There are real solutions, but they’re not easy. They require tradeoffs that are politically uncomfortable, which is exactly why no one in Washington will touch them. And that won’t change just by electing this or that Republican, or this or that Democrat.
Not all issues require a political solution. But the ones that do require a functional government. We don’t have one.
That’s my issue. Fix that first, and the rest becomes possible.
That’s where this starts. Two hundred and fifty years in, we can do better than this.
