I target education as the biggest problem, which can yield great benefits as we move to solution. Test scores are falling, costs are rising, and we face new problems with immigrant population, and this is a top priority to educate immigrant students and integrate them into our community, family life and workforce. We need to radically reducing the cost while increasing the quality of public education: We need greater productivity. I will develop new internet-based teaching programs, using the Internet to teach science and math, anywhere to allow high quality self-paced learning. Science and technology are an area our Constitution directs we promote at the federal level. Using the internet to accelerate learning and capability on hard science and math is a top priority, not not socially re-engineering and dumb down our schools (holding back quick and interested science and math learners). We need to get back to basics. I would also work with the State and the schools to redirect and improve federal support to local education where it’s needed through these internet-based science and math programs. I will also work with schools to ensure that students learn how the country is governed by the federal and state constitutions and our history.

McCollum wants to save and create jobs as her top priority. But she doesn't understand business at all, obviously, and the nearly $1 billion in public investments in the Central Corridor she is supporting will put not thousands of people to work and create new private sector opportunities for decades to come, at least not in the 4th CD. Her other ideas about job creation include federal support and creating jobs locally for firms dedicated to research and innovation in medical, renewable energy and computer technologies, but at best, this approach only retains the level of employment in the research field. Those jobs can easily be outsourced, because they are hi-tech and the competition is fierce. It's better for our Minnesota companies to have the benefit of the whole world for research to create more successful companies in the long run, not tax-payer driven Minnesota research programs. Let them compete on their own terms without picking winners and losers.

Collett says she would focus on encouraging economic growth and reducing unemployment as her top priority. And for that she would encourage new business and expansion of existing businesses by providing a stable business environment. She focuses in on certainty of future taxes and government-imposed expenses, and the elimination of unnecessary regulations and expensive government mandates. In other words, she's going to do nothing. This will have no impact in the short term to stop our Minnesota businesses from spinning their wheels trying to hire people they need when a timely business opportunity presents itself. Such opportunities are being lost, because the time and expense to try to hire people in time are too great, and there is a huge gap between posted jobs and job hires, resulting in significant lost employment and economic growth. I call this the "Clinton Gap" because he is the first prominent politician who noticed it and proposed a solution for it. I target this Clinton Gap in my New Job Environment page.