Growing up I was always taught
that life is precious and that it started at conception. There
are a number of people who would allow an abortion if it
endangers the mothers life. That is just an easy out since there
is virtually no time that the mothers life is in danger. If we
have the ability to remove the baby, perform open heart surgery
and then put the baby back into the mother, does this mean that
the fetus is not human, then human and then back to non human.
God has made it very clear that
he knew us when we were being knitted together in our mother
womb. I was a delegate for our church when at the national
convention discussed the issue of life. There were a few who
wanted to push their own liberal agenda on when life begins, but
we (pro-life) would not hear of it.
You will never have to be
concerned about my position on life, either at the beginning or
at the end. All life is precious and cherished by God and
myself.
Marriage is not the coupling of
two people for the sake of benefits from the Federal or State
Government, or from an employer. It is the union from God for
(1) Man and (1) Woman to commit for their lives to honor and
cherish each other until death do they part. Civil Unions, Gay
Marriage are just liberal agenda items to promote a persons
sinful life style.
I will never support any
legislation that will forward this life style.
It is ironic
that we continue to do things backwards in this
country. We are now starting to convert some of our
coal plants to natural gas. Is it any wonder that we
continue to see energy costs rising as much as 50%
over the previous year. While coal is one way to
produce energy, it is cheap and in great supply.
Natural Gas on the other hand is considered a much
cleaner method for generating electricity but it is
also what most of America uses to heat their
homes. Over the past decade we have seen natural gas
prices and home heating go thru the roof making in
difficult for American families.
Another
source for producing electricity is to start
building nuclear power plants. Right now in France
more the 80% of their electricity is being produced
by nuclear plants. In the United States we currently
have about 100 nuclear plants in operation. In the
U.S. nuclear energy accounts for about 19.7% of the
electrical supply. This is a clean source and it
does not take away from our natural gas supplies in
the country.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm
Immigration
I am 100%
committed to securing our borders. Nearly all of
the illegal drugs are coming across the border,
criminals from Mexico and of course illegal
workers. I would eliminate the automatic
citizenship for those who are born in the
country. We cannot and I will not continue to
support those who do not wish to follow our
rules. If detained they should be immediately
deported, period. If they have warrants they
should be immediately returned and then turned
over to authorities in Mexico.
We need to empty
our prisons of illegal's and return them to the
Mexican government so they can detain them or
reduce our federal aid to their country to pay
for them in our system. We have to make it so
that there is little to no reason for them to
come to our country and we need to force the
Mexican government to step up and support our
efforts to stop the border crossings. If you
have high speed internet, then you need to watch
this video -
click here
Gas/Fuel:
This item continues to cripple the economy from the
truck driver spending $1600 to fill their tanks to the
homeowner who is spending $70 to fill their tank. This
is a real issue. There are many who are blaming the big
oil companies, there are many who are blaming the
speculators but the truth is it is congress.
They continue to block exploration and they
continue to block refinery capacity. The truth
is the oil companies make about $.08 per gallon
where the federal government make about $.22 a
gallon on that same gallon of gas. Now those in
congress want to impose a win fall profits tax
on the oil companies. This was repealed back in
the 80's because it had the opposite effect on
the market.
To me the answer is to
remove it from the commodities market and purchase oil
at a fair market price. Right now OPEC is saying that
number is about $65 a barrel and the oil companies are
saying between $60 - $85 a barrel. The only way to do
this is the supply has to be greater then
demand.
We continue to read about
the huge oil reserves in Alaska, the OCS, and the oil
fields in North Dakota. We need to start
taking advantage of these large oil deposits to help
with our supply problem in this country.
www.anwr.org
I would
also create tax incentives for individuals who
would purchase high mpg vehicles. It is
difficult for the American family to purchase
large ticket items, but by creating meaningful
tax breaks for individuals and families it makes
the purchase more affordable. This creates
meaningful assistance plus the benefit of
reduced gas use. This also creates jobs as our
auto makers will retool and start making cars
again.
My son is in the 82nd Air
Borne so I have a real stake in the support of our military. We need
to support our men and women in the field and back at home. Families
are under an enormous stress and we need to step up and make it
easier for them. Housing, training, education, support in the field
all have to be apart of our commitment to the troops and their
families.
Support in not just in the
field, but when they get home, therapy for physical and emotional
trauma. We can never allow our men and women to feel isolated.
