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Some of the suggestions sound good. Others don't.

Replace the Environmental Protection Agency with an Environmental Solutions Agency;

It seems to me that the problem with the Environmental Protection Agency, is that it exists at all, rather than it simply has the wrong name.

Modernize the Food and Drug Adminstration to enable new medicines to be developed and brought to the sick far more quickly and far less expensively.

This is always a real winner with the public. Sadly, bringing drugs to market too quickly and without enough study, is the best way I know of to wind up killing people and or causing birth defects. One drug was on the market for years before they found out it was causing damage to the heart. Another caused serious birth defects. Another was actually killing people. We would all like to think that drugs could be released quickly and save our relatives. Sadly, they can also be released quickly and kill our relatives, or cause damage they will have to live with for years and or shorten their lives.

Personal savings, investment and insurance accounts eventually expanded to finance all the benefits financed by the payroll tax today, ultimately displacing that tax entirely.

If this is a way of stating that Social Security and Medicare should be privatized I would agree. I will say that keeping the insurance companies out of this as much as possible, would be the best way of doing it. I support the quick accumulation of $10,000 in savings when people first start employment. Once that is achieved, a person can self-insure for a number of things. Medical, dental, optical, vehicle insurance policies with $10,000 deductables would then become the norm. These types of policies are the cheapest, and would facilitate the increased accumulation of wealth. In short order people would accumulate enough money to make a down payment on a home of their own.

This pretty much turns the whole system on it's head, creating a climate where people are much more self-reliant, and not dependent on the federal government for much of anything.

Reform of the Federal Reserve to mandate that it follow a price rule to maintain a stable dollar without inflation.

A price rule? Sure would like to see that expanded upon. I don't believe the Federal Reserve in it's present form should exist. I do think there are times when a controling authority should be out there, but I do not think it should be a 'private' entity, that operates behind closed doors. I do not think it should be spreading funds around without public scrutiny either.

I would like to see the Fed run by representatives of the banking and lending institutions, but I would like all meeting minutes and decisions to be made publicly available. If this couldn't be done, then I'd like to see the Fed gone.

"It seems to me that the problem with the Environmental Protection Agency, is that it exists at all, rather than it simply has the wrong name."

I believe his emphasis is not that he wants a new name, but that he does want to completely eliminate the existing EPA and start an entirely new department with all new people. He's expressed that he does not "reform" the old one, specifically because it is stacked with environmental extremists.

I think his belief is that we do, in fact, need to protect the environment, but we need to do so reasonably and responsibly, with economic consequences and other factors in mind, not the anti-business enviro-wackism that pervades the current EPA.