PROMOTE JOB CREATION AND STIMULATE THE ECONOMY:

Prosperity Through Freedom

1. Job creation.

o     Reduced regulation and less big government interference, such as nationalized healthcare, allows small business to grow, thrive, and create jobs.    

o     Tax relief for businesses leaves cash where permanent jobs are created, not the jobs that will disappear when stimulus wasted money is gone.

o     Free markets must be fair markets, and both Democrats and Republicans have been asleep while Wall Street banks have used taxpayers as golden parachutes.  Regional banks, the credit lifeblood of small business, should receive direct incentives to make reasonable loans again.  

o     Enforce the law against predatory market practices, economic espionage, and monetary policies abroad, particularly by China, which cripple American manufacturers. We must be honest about where our jobs have gone and what it takes to get them back.

2. Increased fiscal accountability and less federal spending.

o     Stop growing the federal government and increasing the tax burden which punishes innovation and business enterprise and makes U.S. goods uncompetitive in the global market.

o     Rethink the union's place in our economy.  Union burdened industries must be allowed to fail if they are not sustainable without taxpayer subsidy.

o     Reform a tort litigation system that punishes honest hard work and innovation and rewards lawyers for creating a society of victims.     

o     Change the broken defense budgetary process.  Ensure adequate focus on future threats while eliminating pork projects that results in $400 toilet seats and weapons systems that nobody wants or needs.

3. Educating the workforce is a strategic imperative.

o     You can't innovate if you can't graduate and you can't have pride in America if you don't know America's proud history.

o     Provide more incentives to attract highly qualified teachers and reward performance, while removing teachers that can't teach and policies that don't work.

o     Expand the GI bill to offer graduate education to veterans and create another Great Generation like that of post World War II.

o     Eliminate capital gains taxes on private investment in campus incubators and alternative energy research and development.

PROTECT THE HOMELAND:

Peace Through Strength

1. Energy Independence is a national security issue.

o     U.S. addiction to foreign oil drives tens of billions of dollars out of our country every year and directly funds the efforts of people who are sworn to kill us. We are subsidizing our enemies while leaving our citizens vulnerable to oil price shocks and supply disruptions that can bring our economy to halt with 5$ gas.

o     America must lead the charge on alternative energy technologies. Given surging global demand for energy, America must protect its position of economic strength by leading the world in pioneering alternative energy sources.  Already, the United State's edge in solar panel and wind power turbine production has been eroded by Chinese investment and focus.

2. Fight the ideology that uses Terrorism as a tool.

o     In order to defeat this terrorist threat we must be honest about the roots in radical Islam, about its funding source of oil, and its intent of defeating the West.  Choosing to ignore the obvious and be politically correct may keep terrorists from being personally offended but it will certainly lead to needless deaths like those at Ft. Hood.

o     Stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. It has been clear that radical Islam is the enemy since America's first clash during Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979. Thirty years later, while China and Russia continue to facilitate Iran's weaponization and thwart US efforts to halt it, we must be prepared to take any actions necessary to ensure that nuclear weapons do not proliferate throughout the middle east.

o     We must fight the war of ideas like a real war, because it is very clear what happens if we lose.  We must remain on the offensive and keep our enemies on their heels and on the run. We can protect our country and out citizens if would-be aggressors are left with no doubt of the outcome of any conflict with us.

3.     Fix our broken borders and protect the homeland.

o     Illegal immigration undermines our economy and lack of border security invites easy access for those that would do us harm.  We must secure our borders.

o     Past generations of immigrants came to this country worked hard and assimilated in the melting pot that has made us a great nation.  Their work and their capital remained here and was reinvested because they became Americans and this was their home.  Today, millions of illegal immigrants do not assimilate and the billions of dollars that they send back to their homes has artificially supported the GDP of many Latin American countries.

o     Illegal immigrants pay no taxes, drive without licenses, and they impose billion dollar burdens on the civic infrastructure paid for by you and me, while facing no consequences.

4. Recognize China as a potential threat and act accordingly.

o     Daily cyber attacks and probes of US infrastructure have a malicious intent.  Attacks on U.S. satellites, networks and military confrontations are under-reported by media outlets afraid of jeopardizing corporate interests (GE/NBC/MSNBC). Espionage and theft of trade secrets results in the loss of billions of dollars in trade secrets and technologies, but fear of being locked out of the world's biggest growth economy causes US businesses to accept their losses and continue to be cannibalized by their Chinese partners.

o     Beyond the headlines about debt or the cheap goods that line store shelves, there is a darker aspect to China's rise. Competition for scare resources is putting US and China at odds over Iran, Africa (Darfur) and North Korean Nuclear weapons proliferation.  At the same time, China is working hard to rid South East Asia of American influence in order to dominate the region and deny the US access to many key global markets.

o     While America has been focused on fighting terror, China has engaged in rapid military expansion and military cooperation agreements with the countries of Latin America. From spy stations on Cuba, to oil deals with Venezuela and Brazil, in the last ten years China has begun using its cash reserves to assert influence in our backyard.

PRESERVE CONSERVATIVE VALUES:

Restore Values with Issues that Matter.

o     Preserve and promote our God-given liberties and constitutional rights.  We must begin again to teach the history of our country and of the founding principles rooted in our  Judeo/Christian values in our schools.  Our military must teach the Constitution, and why it is important.  When soldiers do not know their own Constitution, but are taught the tenets of the Quran, they do not appreciate their own liberty and why it is worth fighting for and dying for. We must educate our public and our own forces inorder to fight the War of Ideas like a real war.

o     Preserve the Second Amendment.  From the very birth of our country when citizen militias responded to the call to arms and liberty, the right to bear arms was designed to protect a citizenry not only from each other, but from the government itself.  Societies that have tightly controlled the ownership of guns have also substituted the governmental control of the nanny state in the place of self-reliance.  In addition to the hunting and sporting aspects of firearms ownership, gun ownership exemplifies an individual's self-reliance and ability to protect one's self and one's family. 

o     Preserve a child's right to life. The moral and Biblical imperatives to preserve and protect our children cannot be denied.  Nowhere else in society are the rights of adults given preference over the rights of a child.  As a practical and strategic matter,  if the U.S. fails to maintain a sufficiently high birthrate, we will experience irreversible population decline leading to a economic strain and eventually, societal collapse.  

o     Preserve the voice of the people and impose term limits on Congress. The founding fathers envisioned public service by citizen legislators not the creation of career politician as an occupation.   George Washington is the model, not politicians whose best argument for reelection is that seniority in Washington will result in bringing home more pork.

o     Preserve our economic future and create real fiscal accountability.  Every department of the Federal government must admit that the present budgetary system is a failure and every department must make sacrifices, including paycuts for the Congress, until we balance the budget and fix the entitlement system.  The size of the non-defense Federal work force should be reduced and frozen and every personnel budget should be scrutinized.  The Federal government should not be the fastest growing employer in America and should not have 19% of federal employees making over $100,000.

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PROMOTE JOBS AND ECONOMY
PROTECT THE HOMELAND
PRESERVE CONSERVATIVE VALUES