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The season is open; Obama is in the circle ready to fight for reelection. The battle lines have been clarified by the 2011 budget skirmish that brought government to the brink of a shutdown. All of those people who departed Friday with their office plants will have to bring them back Monday. It is back to work everyone.

The future is this:

1.      Stop the wars – complete the drawdown’s and whack wasteful and excessive defense programs

2.      Modify the rules on retirement and Medicare and Medicaid qualifications – raise the age and insert means testing

3.      Revisit affordable healthcare for all Americans – shift to private sector-led and government regulated to achieve meaningful reductions in excessive expense

4.      Emphasize tax and regulatory incentives for manufacturing in America

5.      Emphasize accelerating a shift to green and renewable energy sources with emphasis on wind, solar, and then clean extraction of fossil fuels including natural gas

6.      Overhaul American foreign policy regarding peace-building and criteria for war deployment – raise the bar

7.      Aggressively engage the Chinese in economic development with emphasis on changing behavior a contract at a time

8.      Prepare for the resettlement of Japanese people

9.      Overhaul immigration policy and enforce border security

10.  Make Optimizing Return on National Resources a recurring theme