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Border Security:

We must secure our borders.

 

Health Care:

There is no government system that can make choices for an individual as well as the individual can make their own choices.  Some of the current ideas being suggested by candidates will make our health care system worse.  We need to move away from the trend toward socialized medicine and instead increase consumer driven health care options.

Health care must be addressed on multiple levels at the same time.  All analysis must take into account quality, cost and availability.  And all decisions must successfully cover those three components.

Artificially imposed government obstructions to individual consumer choices have made health care more expensive while indirectly rationing its availability.

Congress need to pass the "Comprehensive Health Care Reform Act", bill number H.R. 3343. 

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Education:

Education should be controlled locally.  The federal government should not be preempting the parent's authority over their own child.  Local educational authorities working with the parents and the teachers are all that is needed to make our schools better.  The federal government should be out of education completely.  The money being taken from the taxpayers of each of our states to meddle with our schools should stop immediately.  Education is a state and local issue.  The parents have and should have the primary responsibility concerning the education of their child. 

NCLB and the Department of Education have increased the cost and bureaucracy of education while reducing accountability to parents and lowering standards by draining  resources and causing the focus to be on a top down, one size fits all approach.  we need for accountability and high standards.  But federally mandated reports that isolate the parents, teachers and local education authorities from the operations and control of our schools are not the answer.  Parents and students, nor anyone else on the local level, do not get to see the test after they are graded.  we need to repeal NCLB and eliminate the the Departmant of Education.  That money can be more effectively managed at the local level.

 

Spending:

Government spending is out of control.  Federal revenues have gone up 46% in the last four years.  Have wages gone up that much in the same period of time?  Yet, with that massive increase in revenues, spending has gone up even more.  Congress, which is responsible for all budgets, is spending at a faster pace than all the money they are taking from the American people.  Congress is running huge deficits each year.  This causes the money in our pockets to be worth less and less.

Spending levels for every department should be frozen immediately.  Our federal government's budget should be much smaller.  We need to end corporate welfare.  We need to end federal subsidies.  Entire departments can and should be eliminated. 

Congress must cut spending and start paying off the national debt for the well being of our children.

 

 

 

That civil rulers hold their commission and authority under Christ. Not that Christ has pointed out the form of government, or the persons to rule and govern; in this sense his "kingdom is not of this world" But Christianity enforces the law of nature; and has confirmed the several constitutions of states and kingdoms, and called our obedience to the higher powers, as the gospel finds them. The mode of government, and persons to govern, are submitted to the wisdom of men, in pursuance of a divine ordinance, that second causes might operate. It being the method of God to carry on the designs of his government in this world, by the instrumentality of subordinate Agents. When therefore, a people unite in a form of government, and choose persons to rule and govern them and pledge their faith to be obedient to, and support the government, "though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth or addeth thereunto." The Magistrate then, called to office by the voice of the people, and solemnly sworn, becomes an ordinance of God, and receives his authority from him, "by whom Princes rule, and Nobles, even all the Judges of the earth." And the apostle, when he enjoins obedience to civil rulers, "because the powers that be, are ordained of God," means to include in his idea, the methods by which they become possessed of their power, and likewise the use and improvement they make of it: If they rule for God, and for good to the people, they are to be subjected to, otherwise, "we ought to obey God, rather than men." http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=50