Adams County Republicans

Why do you want to be a U.S. Senator?
I don’t WANT to be Senator, I see it as my DUTY to be Senator to help save the country, and re-start prosperity. I’d much rather be an intern-resident in medicine than Senator.

I see a crying need for fiscal, engineering, and medical sense in our government –and I have a uniquely broad technical background lacking in Congress. Unless we get someone with sense in the Senate, the country will continue down the drain.  The worst possible future is the status-quo. SO – The plan is to run for office, straighten out the mess, and get back to civilian life.

What are the most pressing problems facing our country that you hope to address as a member of the U.S. Senate?

1. The surging growth of Federal government and spending, largely at expense of the private sector, including:
   Rampant corruption through earmarks
   Federalizing problems that historically are state or local concerns
   including regulations affecting all aspects of life
   Chronic and worsening unbalance budget, threatening stability of the dollar
   Growing Federal taxes that will stifle recovery of private industry
   Unfunded mandates on the states
   “Wealth redistribution” to benefit the unproductive.
2. Overreliance on imported oil, leaving a strategic vulnerability.
3. Recession, triggered by banking miss-regulation aimed at “social justice” through rancid mortgages instead of stability.

As a member of the Senate what specifically would you do to help the country recover from the recession?

1. Reverse growth of the Federal Government through
   Ban on unfunded mandates amendment
   A balanced-budget amendment
   A spending cap amendment
   Ban earmarks
   Most states have these; they kept most states from default since Missouri crashed the banks in 1856. Unless the Federal burden is reduced, we will have stag-hyper-inflation
2. Re-impose Glass-Steagall.
3. Kill Cap-and-Trade to allow recovery.
4.  Kill Obamacare.
5.  Taper off “recession extensions” of unemployment so those who are receiving benefits have motive to find jobs – including my sister.

What do you think is the most egregious thing your Democratic opponent has done that you plan to oppose if elected in 2010?
Mr Bennet has committed to support Obamacare. I’ve been in nationalized healthcare while in Medical School – and you do NOT want it here.

He is a big-government, tax-and-spend critter, and has failed to exercise fiscal restraint. While his website claims he supports “fiscal responsibility”, he backs pork-laden and grossly-ineffective stimulus plans instead of tightening the Federal budget and slashing earmarks.

Has the Republican Party failed to live up to its stated ideals in the past several years? If so, how?
Yes. Some Republicans helped squander the nation’s wealth through earmarks, and received kickbacks as campaign contributions from earmark recipients. Also, Mr Bush expanded Federal entanglement with education, historically a state responsibility. And further, some republicans sat by allowing expansion of the Federal government and use of the Community Reinvestment Act to endanger the banking system.

What do you bring to the job of Senator that your primary opponents do not?

1. Proposals for permanent solutions to the growth of the Federal government and bloated budget.
2. Actual education and/or experience in both Engineering and Medicine, with a deeper understanding of realities of energy and healthcare than typical politicians
3. Independence from classical political machines, like the Chicago mob in power.

What should the federal government’s role be in reducing the cost of healthcare? What specific things would you propose or support? What kind of laws would you oppose?
I oppose the “government option” and punitive tax on medical devices imposed because manufacturers would not cave in to Obamafia. I’ve seen socialized medicine firsthand.

I propose gradual reform, cracking down on fraud, restricting medical malpractice costs, allowing deductions for individuals who buy insurance, promoting catastrophic coverage combined with lifelong health savings accounts, and thus allowing individuals to price-shop for basic services and to pay providers directly.

How are you going to deal with the federal government’s deficit spending? What specifically would you cut to balance the budget? Would you raise taxes?

1. Rollback 2 years of pay hikes for Federal employees
2. Eliminate ALL earmarks
3. NO bills over 100 pages.
4. Impose an austerity reduction in all Federal entitlement program benefit levels, and suspend cost-of-living increases.
5. Review Federal agencies to keep those that must be Federal, and eliminate those that do things the States can or should manage.
6. End the Federal ban on Marijuana for the same reasons Prohibition was repealed, taxing it, and slashing the DEA by 50%.
7. Impose a page limit on the internal revenue code slashing it by half.

What are your thoughts on Global Warming and what do you think about the cap and trade legislation pending before Congress as a solution to deal with the problem?
The earth surges from iceball to polar sauna. The Roman Empire died in a cold-snap, followed by the Medieval warm period, Maunder Minimum, and “little ice age” from which we’ve barely recovered.

Not all of climate change is understood, research is needed into:
a. What drives arctic melting? Is it CO2, or Chinese soot?
b. How much change is due to Pacific Ocean cycles?
c. Why the stall in Solar Cycle 24? What does it mean?
d. What else affects climate?

Cap-and-tax may address non-problem with suicide. It is based on a “stop development” mindset, payoffs to cronies, and wealth redistribution through “rebates” targeted to ACORN; not real solutions.

Cap and Tax is the economic death of the USA.

I propose energy independence:
a. Tax benefits for conserving.
b. Reopen Yucca Mountain, despite Reid.
c. Build new nuclear plants, to 3-5 standardized designs, reducing coal and CO2, while supplying base-load.
d. Move the Northeast from oil to gas and electric.
e. Tax oil imports to subsidize shale-oil and oil from coal.
f. Simplify regulations for converting vehicles to natural gas.
g. Eliminate subsidies for corn ethanol, but encourage renewable solar, wind, hydroelectric, and cellulosic ethanol.

What judge currently on the US Supreme Court most accurately reflects the type of judge you would like to see placed on this court in the future and why?
Mr. Scalia – I like his rebellious streak and acerbic wit!

Do you think there is a Constitutional right to abortion? Explain your answer? Would you vote to make abortion illegal? Would you have exceptions?
Had abortion been more available in the 1950’s, I likely would not be here today – my parents saw no other alternative but to marry because of the pregnancy, they did not marry from love. Childhood was stressful as a result.

I’m torn about abortion. On one hand I would like to see abortion restricted so others like me will survive—perhaps limited to assault or real physical (not mere mental) risk to the mother; but on the other hand I see it as something that it was a grave mistake to Federalize.

My libertarian streak says the Federal government should butt-out and turn the issue back to the states.

Do you think government has an obligation to legally recognize same-sex relationships with a marriage license or some other form of official recognition? Explain your reasoning.
Government should get out of the bedroom. Government should allow most relations between consenting adults, whether homosexual, heterosexual, promiscuous, celibate, monogamous, polygynous, or polygamous. Government need not recognize particular relationships because recognition is implicit support, and not all relationships warrant support. I follow traditional LDS-Christian moral values in my life, but I am not an evangelist. I do not seek to impose my values or faith on others. Many schools now attack Christian views and attitudes in name of diversity, this must end.

What do you think is the most pressing foreign policy problem facing this country and what do you think the federal government should do about it?
Our continued exporting of the national treasury and equity to China and the Mideast. Balancing the budget would help, see above; so would judicious tariff hikes to retain some jobs within the United States.

How would you deal with illegal immigration? What do you think the government should do with all the illegal immigrants living in this country?
Illegal immigrants should be expelled from the country whenever, wherever, and however caught – and send the anchor babies with them.

Do you think gun ownership in this country is over regulated or under regulated? Explain your answer.
Gun ownership is over-regulated on average, and especially in Chicago and New York with handgun bans, and California with its restrictive list of approved models. I have an M-1 Garand on my living-room wall. I shoot black-powder. While I do not concealed-carry, I favor allowing concealed carry by law-abiding individuals as a way to ensure crime is risky enough to discourage criminals.