My platform addresses these pressing issues our country faces:
TRANSPORTATION: AMERICA’S CARDIO-VASCULAR SYSTEM
Our cardio-vascular system, which includes the heart, veins, arteries, and blood, brings nutrients and oxygen to every part in our body. It is what keeps us alive. Our highways, railways, our transportation system does the very same thing. It is what keeps America alive.
A competitive and strong economy requires a transportation system that can quickly and efficiently moves people, goods and services. Supporting technologies that can increase the speed, reliability and cost effectiveness of transportation will increase the economy’s competitiveness and will create jobs.
America deserves better roads and transportation. Better transportation strengthens the economy by providing better access to markets, reducing production costs, increasing productivity and increasing employment. It will boost business and leisure travel and enhance household welfare by enabling more family time and less time stuck in travel.
Better roads and transportation are essential to national security. In the event of foreign attack, the military would need un-congested roads to quickly transport troops, emergency and medical supplies. It is also essential for evacuations in case of any type of catastrophe, whether it be by foreign attack or weather related.
In everyday emergencies, better roads and eliminating traffic congestion could mean a matter of life or death with police, fire, ambulances and other emergency vehicles.
Immigration law enforcement, not immigration reform, is essential to our nation’s economy and security. Securing our boarders should be one of our primary concerns. Existing laws regarding legal immigration should be enforced. The current system makes it hard for bright, hard-working educated people to legally immigrate, while it allows the poor, uneducated, unskilled and, oftentimes, criminals to walk across our boarders.
IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Radical, violent Islamic extremists are America’s number one enemy. Supporting U.S. troops and getting the job done is a must. An effective, proven strategy includes military involvement and diplomatic actions to support moderate, mainstream, modern Islamic Nations.
We should support our veterans with health care, disability compensation, GI bill education and job training, small business training and small business guarantees, home loan guarantees, affordable housing, life insurance policies and a nationwide system of veteran cemeteries.
My goal is building a better and stronger America by Americans, for Americans and in America. It includes building better roads, built in America for Americans by American Labor, better bridges, hospitals, schools, and homes, built in America, by and for Americans. A recent study showed that the most productive workers in the world are American workers. Let’s give them a chance to work by enforcing our existing laws and cracking down on employers who use illegal workers.
Create tax free zones to boost American Business and America’s Economy will reward businesses that hire only American workers, decrease the number of American businesses leaving the country for cheaper labor, attract foreign businesses to the U.S. and create more jobs for Americans in America.
Small businesses have a major role in economic growth and creating new jobs. We must support small business through quality training and making small business loans more easily accessible.
AGRICULTURE AND OUR COUNTRYSIDE
We must recognize the special needs of our citizens who live and work in rural areas. Our farms and rural areas must not be allowed to deteriorate. Better roads, transportation system, hospitals and schools will revitalize the American farmland. Funding, loan opportunities, and training in agriculture and agricultural technologies will build a strong American farmland.
In order to compete in the global economy, we must set higher standards in education. American schools and American education are falling further and further behind the rest of the industrialized world. We have to go back and concentrate on the basics: reading, writing and arithmetic. We must focus on math, history, science and technology. This must be done through parent participation and cutting waste and inefficiency in our school system. There must be zero tolerance for underperformance. We now have good schools and bad schools coexisting side by side. We must authorize the good school system to take over the bad to set the under performing school on a new path to success.
Every American should have access to affordable health care and medical insurance. Logically, this should be done with new legislation of market reforms, not through a national government health care program. A national government health care program would require new taxes and would greatly restrict the freedom of health care choice and accessibility.
Our national debt is a big burden to our economy, currency and foreign policy. It is a burden to our future, our children’s future and the future of generations of Americans to come. It’s very important that the Federal Government stop its spending and borrowing trend and concentrate on building America’s strength in today’s highly competitive global economy.
Raising taxes hurts the American working class. It hurts employers, businesses and our economy. We can build a stronger America and a stronger economy through increasing jobs, creating a better business climate and attacking government waste and inefficiency, not by increasing taxes or creating new ones.
America must become a nation independent of foreign oil. This is a must in order to build a strong economy, secure our nation’s freedom, the future of our environment and prevent global warming. We should support technologies that develop alternative sources of energy such as solar, wind, water, atomic and geo-thermal energy. In addition, we must increase our efforts to find more domestic sources of oil and increase our use of ethanol, coal gasification and bio-diesel energy sources. This strategy will also increase employment and create more jobs for Americans in America.
“One of the biggest problems we have in this country today is that we focus on things that we shouldn’t do or can’t do opposed to concentrating on things that we can do.”I am committed to preserving the right for all law-abiding citizens to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Censorship is closely related to the concepts of freedom of speech and freedom of expression. When overused, it is associated with human rights abuse, dictatorship and repression.
Arts and culture enhance family values and education. Strengthening the American Family strongly depends on family time spent in leisure, enjoying art, culture and seeing the beauty that America has to offer. It not only strengthens our American family but also strengthens our economy and educational system.
2007. Rudy Clai. All rights reserved.