1) Preserving America’s
homeland security posture including the terrorist
surveillance program and the Patriot Act that give those
entrusted with protecting us the technology and tools
they need to keep track of al Qaeda and other
terrorists;
2) Supporting the President’s plan for
expanding the U.S. military and intelligence community so as to broaden
America’s capability to defeat our enemies abroad, and his goal of a missile
defense shield against our enemies abroad to degrade their arsenals'
effectiveness and which allows for the possibility of international arms
reductions led by the U.S. and Russia;
3) Achieving political reform in Washington by
turning back the excessive growth of government, and amending the
Constitution to allow for a line-item veto for appropriations bills in order
to cut wasteful spending in our budget process, implementing
across-the-board budget cuts to better balance budgets before they get to
the President, and eliminating earmarks by prohibiting representatives from
proposing earmarks for their own districts;
4) Ensuring entitlement reform for future
generations of Americans by implementing personal savings accounts for
Social Security so that money is saved for our retirements, may be invested,
and not spent by the government, and by rescuing Medicare from bankruptcy
and continuing to modernize America's health system in order to reduce
costs;
5) Building physical barriers to make it
impossible to enter America illegally, as it was the failure to secure our
borders that made Congress' efforts to legalize the presence of millions of
illegal immigrants in 1986 fail, and Congress should vote to appropriate the
funds necessary to fence at least 90% of the borders so that as America takes
stock of the millions already here illegally we can be assured that there is
not another million more on the way, and State and local governments ought
to be enforcing immigration law, not providing sanctuary by law and making
total population awareness as a goal impossible;
6) Creating a property owner’s bill of
rights which should include a reasonable limit to property taxes;
7) Bringing about curricula reform in our
education system so that our children have the skills they will need in the
21st century workforce;
8) Cleaning up our schools by fighting for
mandatory drug testing for Federally-funded schools;
9) Eliminating the tax code by implementing the
flat tax at reduced rates while allowing for a reasonable poverty line to be
set on a regional basis based on the cost of living; and
10) Assuring that America will become energy
independent by rapidly finding alternatives to oil while simultaneously
increasing energy production, building new nuclear power plants, and easing
the plight of all Americans by eliminating gasoline taxes.
