Open e-mail to Rep. Neugebauer:

Randy,

I saw the poll results on the 13 national issues, which you considered might be of interest to constituents. You were correct. They are interested in all 13, but the real question is their relative importance and whether you should be doing anything about them.

I am commenting on each of them as follows:

Agriculture Our main interest is to stabilize the cultural prices, keep farmers in the business, and avoid famine. Spend median time.

Border Security We need to keep out terrorists and illegal immigrants looking for opportunity. Spend median time and concentrate on technology rather than fence building

Economy This is the big one. We need to wean the public from an entitlement attitude. Spend lots of time in discrediting the fascist liberals and promoting capitalism

Education Another big one, but but should not take a lot of time. Just quickly closed down the Department of Education.

Energy Another big one. But also should not take a lot of time. Get off the tickets to sustainable energy and promote gas and oil drilling. Kill any talk of taxing CO2 emissions.

Family Values & Pro-Life Important but not big, and you can't do much about it. Minimal time.

Federal Deficit Very important and worth a lot of time ferreting out government waste. However, I have mentioned the big ones of shutting down the Departments of Education And Energy. Get rid of all government grants, loan guarantees, in a promotion by government agencies. Product and process development belong to the private sphere and should be sold by private corporations.

Financial Services & Banking Very important. Put in some time restricting banks to traditional lending operations. Get rid of the quasi government organizations such as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. We organized the Federal Reserve to a National Bank under the control of Congress.

Government Spending Same as reducing deficit. Spend some time in closing down agencies and departments.

Health Care Repeal Obama Care. Spend some time convincing the American public that healthcare is the responsibility of the individual. Make individuals pay at least 50% of all medical expenses. When they can't afford it, have them get the money from their families or borrow it.

Immigration Establish a massive illegal immigration camp. All illegal immigrants without proper documentation should be confined to the camp until they are returned to their native countries.

National Debt Spent very little time on the national. It's important, but it will automatically be controlled as you control government spending and the federal deficit

National Security & the Global War on Terror Ensure national security by completing the Star Wars program did not ban any nuclear device carrying missiles while they are still in outer space. Remove traditional armies from the Middle East and the borders of other questionable countries to concentrate more on the use of high-technology surveillance combined with improved CIA ground data. Spend minimal time but give it an expense priority

Post Office Issues spend minimal time to appoint a director who knows how to make a service operation profitable. Chances are he will increase rates for junk mail and other solicitors as to discourage their use. The ancillary advantages is that the public will be saved the inconvenience of handling this junk

Science & Technology Spend a fair amount of time in eliminating research and development from federal agencies and departments. Technological development should come from the private sector and from universities, without any involvement of government. Government patents should be licensed free to any individuals or corporations desiring a license.

Second Amendment Rights Support Second Amendment rights using as much time as necessary. Guns must be in the hands of the general public so that it can protect itself against the government.

Small Business Spend little time on this, because there's nothing to do. Small business should promote itself in an environment where government is generally pro-business, which means a minimum of restrictive regulations, including taxes

Social Security Spend minimum time on modifying Social Security so that payments begin at receivers later ages, in conformity with our increased lifecycles. Consider general reductions in payments, with recommendations that individuals should be setting aside their own retirements through private financial institutions.

Trade Spend a reasonable amount of time in getting rid of "free trade". Regulate imports by applying import customs duties to partially protect local manufacturing and service industries. Have no concern of reciprocal trade restrictions on our exports. For example, countries who wish to apply a custom duty on wheat from the United States are welcome to do so with subsequent explanation to their citizens.

Transportation Spend a reasonable amount of time in killing off all government programs involving the transportation industry. It is not government's responsibility to decide whether we should have electric cars. If the people want to continue with internal combustion engines, government should not stand in the way. Do not spend government money on mass transportation. There's enough private industry capital to do that in cases where is justifiable.

Veterans' Affairs Spend very little time on this. Good veteran should have proper hospitalization and medical care, with appropriate retirement benefits they should also be allowed some paid access to university training, if they leave the services during their normal working ages, in order to better adapt to society.