Why I’m Running
February 1st, 2010
America is yearning for a new cadre of citizen legislatures. Statesmen who unselfishly interrupt their life and career to serve their country for a period of time, promising to return to live under the same laws they help legislate. This is what the Founding Father envisioned and practiced, and it is only appropriate that we emulate them.
I offer myself as the candidate who espouses the above principles. I have the knowledge, the experience and most of all the passion to serve. My career has been of service to others. I intend to restore representation to where it belongs! the people. I am not connected to any group, I have never been nor will I be an agent to any special interest clique. I have practically no needs or wants, hence no lobbying bloc would be allowed to broach my territory. I firmly believe that only term limits would bring integrity, dignity, and credibility to the body politics in Congress.
The most pressing issue facing our country is the economy. Washington’s wasteful spending must be curtailed as we are inundated with tremendous debt. This administration engine is off on the wrong track. It promised when it rolled into office of spending restraints. Yet it has tripled the deficit. I pledge to apply the same principles with government spending as I do with my family budget at the kitchen table. Spend only what I have and what I can afford.
We should heed the advice of Thomas Jefferson who said in 1816 that we should not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. He also added democracy ceases to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give it to those who would not.
Healthcare occupies a major portion of our GDP. It needs reform but not at the expense of political expediency. It should be addressed by non-emotional logical deliberation involving true stake holders. Consideration relative to health and disease , life and death should not be relegated to politicians and government bureaucrats, but to the stewards of healthcare namely physicians.
The current voluminous health bills being debated in Congress are ill-understood, very expensive and one size fits all provisos. It will deprive us of one of our most cherished right……….THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE.
