Let's Fix America!
"Let's Fix America" discusses 17 major problems facing the citizens of the United States.  The thrust of the book, however, is not just to identify the many problems which face us, but to convince and demonstrate to readers that realistic, workable solutions to these problems exist, though not within the political framework of a collectivist government.  Inflation can be stopped in its tracks, and our federal budget balanced.  The tax load can be reduced, and large-scale capital saving restored, by federal budget caps and major tax reforms.  Social Security and Medicare can be privatized, to the benefit of both recipients and our private economy.  The real problems with our medical care system are identified and dealt with, with essentially no residual government involvement.  Welfare can be returned to local jurisdictions, where it can be effectively monitored.  Government bailouts can be a thing of the past.  The drug problem can readily be left behind us, and certain legal and societal reforms can result in drastically reducing our prison populations, while making our streets much safer.  Schools can readily be restored to safe places of substantive preparation for adult life.  Reforms are offered to stop our growing tendency to sue each other whenever a financial reverse is encountered.  A rational solution to the 20-year screaming match over abortion is presented.  Medical and legal steps to deal with AIDS are discussed.  Solutions to illegal immigration issues are proposed, and a rational, inexpensive, and useful foreign policy is presented, nothing like what we presently have.  Finally, the fundamental illness of our Congress is diagnosed, and a number of major changes proposed to get that institution back on the track of serving our whole body politic.  A strategy for implementing the above changes over the next 20 years or so is discussed.Proposed changes in federal and state law to implement these reforms are tested against criteria for appropriate law appearing in the writings of our founders (Jefferson, Madison, and their philosophic predecessor John Locke), Frederick Bastiat, Albert Jay Nock, and Ayn Rand.  These "Four Graybeards" provide overlapping and complementary prescriptions for judging good vs. bad law.  It will not come as a surprise, therefore, that the solutions offered in "Let's Fix America" are consistent with confining government to activities aimed at protecting and preserving the individual rights of our citizens to their own life, liberty and property, and pulling government back from many of the encroachments which it has itself made on those rights.