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Limited Government: Government solutions to everyday problems are not “free,” efficient, or effective. Every law or regulation, by definition, reduces your individual freedom. Although our Constitution guarantees a limited Federal government, Washington, D.C. is expanding out of control and would be unrecognizable to our Founding Fathers.
One of the reasons for this is because Washington is run by politicians who compromise their personal values by voting for major bills full of “earmarks” and “riders,” which are often unrelated to the underlying subject. These massive spending and regulatory earmarks and riders are like parasites, sucking the lifeblood out of your country. And who is stuck with the massive debt and loss of freedoms? You, the taxpayer.
My Solution: As your Congressman, I pledge a vote of “No” on any bill that contains earmarks or unrelated “riders,” regardless of the party who attaches them. I will work to scrub these from our legislation and bring clean bills up for honest votes, or I will not support them.
Strong National Defense: America stands alone as the world’s champion of freedom against tyranny. September 11, 2001, demonstrated unequivocally that there are those in this world who hate liberty and our way of life. I am not interested in understanding them or capitulating to them. Did President Franklin Roosevelt ask Americans on December 8, 1941, to understand why the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor or learn how to work with them? No. One of my primary duties will be to make sure my fellow Americans are as safe and strong as possible. This isn’t done by “opening dialogue” or any other euphemisms for cowardice in the face of our enemies. It is done, only when absolutely necessary, with aircraft carriers and main battle tanks.
My Solution: As your Congressman I pledge to rebuild our military to pre-1990 levels, which is an absolute necessity in today’s dangerous world.
Secure Borders: Until we control our northern and southern borders and know who is crossing them, talk about “immigration reform” is just that: talk. Until we enforce our immigration laws in our cities, “immigration reform” means nothing. A lone border patrolman was murdered last summer here in our community. There is no excuse for this happening in our country.
My Solution: As your Congressman, I will reject any legislation regarding “immigration reform” that does not also guarantee the completion of the border fence, and I will propose legislation to cut ALL Federal funding to any city that is operating as a so-called “sanctuary city.” Finally, as one of my first priorities, I will work to increase funding to put more border patrol agents where they are most needed: on our borders protecting our national security.