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IT’S THE ECONOMY
The Bush administration’s myopic focus of fattening the pockets of Big Oil and Big Businesses through top-heavy foreign and domestic economic cronyism has almost brought the American economy to its knees. Fat military and oil contracts, unprecedented Oil Company profits, and CEO multi-million dollar bonuses, being fed by a mal-directed Iraqi war sinkhole, are bleeding the average American household economy dry. These must be challenged in the next Congress.
Manufacturing outsourcing of our best paying jobs and the simultaneous insourcing of foreign plants has transformed American workers into economic sharecroppers who produce for other countries and must buy from other countries- a classic double whammy. We now have an overseas, oil-driven economic base with no favorable trade conditions to offset and prosper our workers. Now we are a debtor nation to other countries such as China. This must be reversed in the next Congress.
Our economy needs a surgical correction. We must first stop the massive bleeding that the war in Iraq has caused by shutting down our participation. We must correct the tax burden so that the heart of the economy which is the average American worker, is not being over-pumped to satisfy the fat profit demands of the most wealthy.
Two major areas of economic growth - renewable energy sources, and infrastructure - are woefully and dangerously unattended.
- We must remove the major economic threat of oil costs from the top of the list to the bottom. The days of unlimited oil are coming to an end. However, hydrogen, nuclear, solar, and wind energy offer realistic and long-lasting alternatives. Government needs to underwrite their development.
- Our roads, bridges, and ports are in general disrepair. A nationwide “Eisenhower” approach is the solution. In addition, we need to go “green” in building public and private offices and housing, creating new industries and decreasing the demand for more oil.
Investing in and underwriting these two areas will also create hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs, including to local economies such as are in the 4th Congressional District.
I ask for your vote. I not only understand the problems, I have workable solutions. From the top of the government to the average American worker, I believe that this country and the Louisiana 4th District can be restored to economic health and balance. My plan benefits everyone, Democrat, Republican, and Independents. When seated in the next Congress, I pledge to push and support legislation that will stop the bleeding, reduce the tax burdens, and restore our economy to its previous position of general prosperity and middle-class growth.
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