Issue Position: Dollars and Sense: The Citizen's "Business"

Issue Position

The 52nd Congressional District produces more than half of San Diego's GDP. Innovation is the heartbeat of our district. We are home to many of the globe's leading telecom, healthcare and life science companies, and the homeport of the Pacific fleet. Our Travel and Visitor industry is vibrant. To ensure our future, we need a builder for the 21st Century. During my career, I have raised over $100 million for San Diego-based innovation companies and created hundreds of jobs.

A good offense requires a good defense. Balancing a budget is a big part of creating productive jobs. Our outrageous Federal deficit spending must end. America, our America, has an annual Trillion Dollar Deficit ($1,000,000,000,000) with debt repayment exceeding $400 billion a year. This crushing debt saps our national vitality and mortgages our children's future. Imagine the infrastructure we could replenish, the schools we could build and the tax reductions we could provide if we had sound fiscal discipline.

During the incumbent's time in the swamp, the government has shut down three times and the debt ceiling has been raised above the legal limit nine times, most recently by $320 billion. Shutdowns and deficits cost American Taxpayers billions of dollars in lost wages and opportunity. Yet Congress keeps their perks. It's not right and cannot be tolerated.

As your congressman, I will work to:
*Enact legal requirements forcing both Parties to shape up;
Ensure the Federal Budget defaults to the prior year's budget to avoid shutdowns until a new budget *is passed; and,
*Strip Congress of Travel reimbursement and Pay until a balance budget is passed.

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