In the Early Going there's time to refine and articulate policy positions on the issues facing the nation.  Later on the daily schedule of campaign events will make it difficult to concentrate on all the implications of any new position that needs to be developed.  So now is the time to hear from you about what you think of Mark's top policy priorities: The Economy and Education, which are intimately interlocked as we move into a time where Intellectual Property means more to commerce than raw materials, factories, or even available labor.

 

We need to 'Do Capitalism Right'.  When we do, we will see our productive economy surge and with it our standard of living.  When that happens it will minimize, if not eliminate many of the other questions plaguing us today. 

 

Please check out the web site for a growing list of my positions, then let me hear from you with your opinions.

The Rules of transacting business are well known, even if we overlook or ignore them now and then.  If you run a business by the rules you have a much better chance that it will grow and prosper.

 

Today we live in a world where people everywhere are achieving a lifestyle that was only available here in America fifty years ago.  As they do, countries like India, Brazil, and China become trading partners who are largely at parity with the United States when it comes to economics.  Those of us following the Rules of Business just naturally adapt to the changing landscape of world commerce and deal as equals with them. 

 

Perhaps we're not actually equals but it is both courteous and profitable to treat Trading Partners as partners.  This is a lesson that America will have to take to heart in its Diplomacy.  No one can top us militarily, but we cannot use force of arms to define every international relationship.  Gradually we need to treat every Diplomatic Partner as if they were a Trade Partner and seek the path of engagement with the realistic goal of mutually beneficial resolutions to all problems.