Issue Position: Why I Am a Candidate

Issue Position

I am running for Congress because I am unhappy with the direction of the country: The runaway spending, the bailouts, the takeovers and the healthcare reform before Congress that is being forced upon the majority of the people to the cost of $1 trillion dollars.

We can't borrow or spend our way back to prosperity and this certainly won't create jobs. We are lectured by the elites in Washington that the financial crisis was largely a result of our "living beyond are means'; however, in the first year of the new administration the federal deficit increased three times from $500 billion to $1.5 trillion and this is only forecast to grow for the next 10 years.

There is a conceit coming out of Washington that somehow they know better than we do.

The common American values of life, liberty and limited government are being trampled by those who "know better'. Liberals have faith in the government. I have faith in the people. Limited government and individual liberty made this country great, and these are principles we should continue to live by.

I plan to bring a practical, common sense approach to Washington, D.C.; an approach that harnesses the creative power of the individual and not the government.

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