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Home > About John
| | Currently there is a frontal assault on the middle class!
I am running for Congress because those who are charged with representing the interests of myself, and others like me... clearly are not. Current office holders such as my opponent Virginia Brown-Waite in the 5th District instead represent the interests of the powerful and the corporations to the near total disregard of working Americans.
My goals as a U.S. Representative are to...
1.) Insure that everyone has access to quality affordable health care irrespective of their economic circumstances. I also want to make certain that medicine remains an attractive career choice for those with the talent, drive and ability to become the kind of physicians that we would want to take care of us.
2.) I want to fight for an Energy Policy that will improve the climatological health of our planet. Alternative Energy is technologically feasible right now, yet the forces of entrenched political/corporate alliances prevent America from moving forward to protect our planet from global warming.
The self-serving recalcitrance of the multi-national corporations whose tentacles entangle politicians at every level of government, circumvent the evolution of a new planetary economic paradigm based on alternative energy sources that would lead the world, and in particular "working America", to a new economic boom.
The additional benefit of a "pro-alternative" energy policy would naturally lead to a less interventionist foreign policy, as demand for oil would be greatly decreased. The obvious consequence being that the probability of future conflicts over oil would be greatly diminished.
3.) I will secure Social Security for future generations and current retirees.
4.) I will work to get American soldiers out of Iraq ASAP!
I will not be adverse to voting affirmatively, relative to holding accountable, those officials currently in office whose decisions have squandered American lives and resources... on behalf of corporate corruption and malfeasance... misleading the American people into the debacle that is the war in Iraq.
5.) I will work to ensure that America has a sound long-term economic policy the major goal of which will be to re-invigorate the Middle Class in this country which has been severely harmed by "Corporate Friendly" so called free trade policies.
I will seek to gain control of our borders so that middle class Americans will not have their lives, and those of their children adversely impacted, by unfair labor competition.
Employer exploitation of desperate throngs of illegal workers/undocumented immigrants willing to be subjected to substantially lower compensation and poor working conditions in 21st century America are despicable. Illegal/undocumented immigrants are attracted to cross borders illegally in order to earn what are meager/ subpar wages by American standards (for a given occupation/job), but are substantially higher than the pennies per day paid in the 3rd world conditions of Mexico.
Illegal aliens cause large upward shifts in labor supply resulting in decreased aggregate wages for ALL workers.
This occurs because unscrupulous employers are willing/able to exploit illegal populations because of the illegal immigrants fear of deportation.
Current policy enforcement which is lax at the employer layer (mostly ignored), disproportionately benefit corporations to the detriment of American citizens... citing recent studies/articles by economist Paul Krugman and George Buerhaus of Harvard University.
As your Congressman, I will seek to hold employers at every level, civilly and criminally accountable for hiring undocumented workers in violation of laws under the purview of State and Federal Departments of Labor and Insurance, as well as the Internal Revenue Service.
I will seek to increase the efficiency of, and annual levels of legal immigration to this country, thereby affording those who demonstrate their respect for the rule of law, the same opportunity as those who have traveled the same road before them.
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