Based on recent Gallup polls of public opinion, a citizen tackles a baker's dozen of America's major problems that are susceptible to common sense solutions by legislation or the ballot box. Chapter topics include poor leadership, climate change, the deficit, fragile banking, bailouts, healthcare, the drug war, gun control, immigration, racism, education, poverty, and national security. The polls change, but the problems remain. In the concluding chapter, entitled "Can It Be Done?, the author renders a judgment about whether Americans can meet the challenge of dealing with these major issues.