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FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
Our
great nation has a credit card which I call
“Credit Card USA”. It currently has a balance of
nearly $12,000,000,000,000. In 10 years it will
be $20 TRILLION. In 2008 we accrued about $383
billion dollars of interest on our national
debt, that is roughly $1,200 per every man,
woman and child in the country
For every
$1.00 of receipts, our federal government is
spending $1.50 and owes $4.20
If you were the
government and made $40,000 a year, you would be
spending $60,000 and would owe $168,000
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JOB CREATION
The government passed a
stimulus package that cost nearly 4/5 trillion
dollars, yet has had relatively little impact on
the economy. Consider that by the end of 2009,
less than 30% has actually been spent to
stimulate the economy. Where are the jobs? “Cash
For Clunkers” was a waste of your money. Let’s
focus on creating permanent jobs for our
citizens, not political pork jobs that will
disappear when the money runs out.
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HEALTH
CARE
Before we “reform” a $2.6 trillion
system, which works for 85% of Americans, let us
tackle the obvious problems such as tort reform,
plan transportability, ability to choose plans
across state lines, drug patent limitations and,
most importantly, Medicare reform. And
understand why the Public Plan will lead to
nationalization of hospitals.
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HAND
UP, NOT HAND OUT
Our citizens pay taxes,
often well over 20% when one counts FICA,
Medicare plus Federal and State Income Taxes. In
other words, you work for the government at
least 20% of the time, e.g. 8 hours of a 40 hour
workweek. A person on government support does no
work for the government. Does that make sense?
We need to offer a Hand Up, Not A Hand Out to
those less fortunate so that they can obtain the
education and training needed to succeed in our
society.
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EDUCATION
The foundation
of any great democracy is its educated citizens.
Why has our nation lost its number one status in
the world for superior education? In many
communities our teachers are not effective. Too
many of our principals and superintendents do
not know how to lead, to work with parents, to
inspire. Poor teachers are seldom removed, and
excellent teachers are not rewarded. Mediocrity
is the standard. College educational costs are
spiraling out of control. How do we fix it?
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ENERGY
Our country has an addiction,
oil imports! We pay $400 billion per year for
oil to nations that dislike us. This weakens our
economy. We make foreign policy decisions and
alliances that are not in our best long term
interests.
Twenty years ago we produced
65-70% of our oil needs internally. Today we
produce half as much and import 14 million
barrels a day. That exported money is being used
to fuel growth in other nations, not in America.
And some of it is being used to buy American
companies. Are we NUTS????
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CONGRESS’
RECESSION
You have heard over and over again
from our President about the “Bush Recession”.
The reality is that both parties in Congress
supported laws that made a cyclic economic
slowdown into a severe recession. The seeds of
this housing and banking fiasco go back to the
1990s.
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Bendas
For Congress
