Issue Position: Constitutionally Limited Government

Issue Position

Our Founding Fathers fought our Revolution to free us from an overbearing Government.

It was with this in mind that they designed a series of well thought out restraints for our republic -- establishing a government with powers that are specifically enumerated and explicitly granted by the people.

But by largely ignoring the Constitution, our federal government grows larger and larger -- year in and year out. In just the last few years we have witnessed a $700 billion bailout for millionaires on Wall Street and a failed $787 billion economic-stimulus package (about a $14,000 burden on each taxpayer). The proposed complete government takeover of our healthcare system - which will create a trillion dollar plus entitlement and dramatically change the relationship between citizens and their physicians -- was the icing on the cake.

A government that views itself as the provider for nearly every conceivable human need -- rather than as the securer of that which a person has obtained through their efforts - is very likely to have a record of unsustainable spending growth.

America, like no other nation before, is founded on the principle that the individual has basic rights that are granted by our Creator that no government may take away or compromise. But today government officials take private property, restrict how landowners may use their own property, restrict the rights of law abiding Americans to protect themselves on public property, and compromise our nation's ability to produce domestic sources of energy. As the state motto of Iowa says: "Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain". I couldn't agree more.

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