America is literally being transformed
Open borders - GLOBALISM - socialism - marxism - climate cult - inflation - NATIONAL DEBT - FEDERAL SPENDING - CORRUPTION - WARS - HUMAN TRAFFICKING - DRUGS
FEDERAL LAW IGNORED
It’s difficult to imagine that any American president would intentionally create a crisis on our southern border but that is exactly what the Biden - Harris administration has done. Tens of thousands of unvetted illegal immigrants from all around the world simply make their way across our southern border exacerbating the flow of harmful drugs and human trafficking. Americans, as well as the illegal immigrants themselves, suffer as a consequence.
Joe Biden is violating the Constitution and federal statutory law. No doubt Joe Biden will go down in history as the worst president ever.
POLICE AND FIRST RESPONDERS
‘Defund the police’ comes straight from the Marxist playbook and is very dangerous as crime rises across the country.
Americans in every single community need well trained first responders.
FOREIGN AID
We are literally committing economic suicide.
With over $30 trillion in national debt the Biden administration, rubber stamped by congress, continues to give money away to other countries like there is no tomorrow.
“The President’s Budget for FY 2022 requests $58.5 billion for the Department of State and USAID, a 10 percent increase over FY 2021 as enacted.”
Foreign aid is saddling the American taxpayer with greater and greater debt. Administrations on both sides, Democrat and Republican, along with congress are addicted to spending. It’s got to stop!
Not one more penny should be given to another government until our national debt is brought under control and America’s veterans are no longer living on our streets.
America has always been the most generous and compassionate country in the world but, neglecting our own veterans, seniors, disabled, and American students who cannot pursue their educational aspirations... while leaving the next generation with the worst national debt in history... is not compassion!
NATIONAL DEBT
Both Republicans and Democrats are responsible for our over $330 trillion national debt. Taxes are too high… mainly because career politicians have a spending problem.
The federal government spent $6.8 trillion in FY2021 — or $20,634 per person.
Right to Life
There isn't any other issue which reflects how our secular society has turned away from God and our Judeo-Christian values as this nation continues in the business of funding Planned Parenthood.
It’s impossible to believe the sincerity of politician’s who support exterminating the lives of children in the womb while simultaneously claiming to care so much about your health and safety that they justifying their efforts of unconstitutional lockdowns and feckless mask enforcement. It’s really not about your health.
2nd Amendment
The right of the people to keep and bear arms is non-negotiable. The Founding Fathers understood that a free society fundamentally depends on not only the ability to defend oneself and property but, a well-armed citizenry is critical in defending against a tyrannical government.
It is in fact... the 2nd Amendment that allows us to keep the rest of our constitutional rights. We can NEVER budge on this constitutional right!
Immigration
President Theodore Roosevelt believed that legal immigrants should ‘in good faith’ assimilate but, is predicated on the immigrant becoming nothing but an American. “There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all.”
And… ‘Illegal’ immigration should not be rewarded with access to government assistance programs and a pathway to citizenship. Legal immigration, especially those individuals seeking an elected office, should obtain full citizenship, not dual-citizenship. An American does not and cannot serve two masters. There is one flag, one language, one Constitution and one culture—the American culture. Assimilation and self-reliance are key to an immigration system that benefits Americans.
Refugee Resettlement
Written during a time when refugees were fleeing communism, the Refugee Act of 1980 is outdated and must be reformed. Until Congress reforms the law--the federal program should be paused or at a minimum… downsized dramatically.
Refugees cannot be vetted
Hundreds of millions of tax dollars flow like an open spigot resettling refugees who don’t meet the federal definition of refugee. Was their country of origin invaded? Were they persecuted because of race or religion? Or, is the United States injecting itself into civil wars and unrest around the world of which we have no business meddling in? Unfunded federal obligations, unplanned impacts on schools, city and county services, as well as, unintended consequences to property values and rising poverty and crime… All unintended costs and consequences while ‘We the People’ have very little, if any, input involving the transformation of our communities… our home.
Former FBI director, James Comey, testified during a Homeland Security hearing, that the federal government doesn’t have the ability to conduct thorough background checks on all of the 10,000 Syrian refugees admitted into the country under the Obama administration.
“We can only query against that which we have collected,” Comey said, “And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them.”
lack of transparency
Non-government organizations, such as, Lutheran Immigration Services and Catholic Charities receive millions in federal funding to facilitate refugee resettlement. It has become a huge money making industry with very little transparency and virtually no accountability. Besides wasting a boat load of tax dollars (the people running these programs are making six figure salaries)… these organizations are not subject to public data laws. Unconstitutional?
Remittances and Fraud
February 2015, the U.S. Treasury Department and the FBI cite concerns that Somali immigrants could be sympathetic to radical Islamic groups such as Al Shabaab operating within Somalia and use the money to fund their operations.
February 2016, MPR reported, “Minnesota lawmakers have long sought a plan to allow money transfers to continue after banks in the U.S. stopped handling them.” –because the money could not be kept from corrupt Somali terrorist groups including Al-Shabaab.
January 2017, DNC co-chair Keith Ellison partnered with Republican Tom Emmer to bring back Somali-American remittances with a new pilot program. What changed? Was the federal government able to suddenly track funds flowing to Somalia, as well as other locations around the world, ensuring those funds did not land in the coffers of Al Shabaab and other terrorist organizations? Really?
Somali migrants from around the world remit $1.3-2 billion annually —much of which originates as taxpayer funded public assistance and even fraud. Minnesota, having the largest Somali community in the country largely bears the remittance burden.
Whether through government programs, or daycare fraud, as we have recently become aware, suitcases of cash leaving Minnesota negatively impacts the state’s economy. Where is the accountability?
ISLAMIC TERRORISM
Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act:
I will support and work to pass this legislation.
This bill requires the Dept of State to report to specified Congressional Committees with 60 days indicating: (1) whether the Muslim Brotherhood meets the criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization; and (2) if not, which criteria have not been met.
The U.S. desperately needs to pass this Act in designating the Muslim Brotherhood and front groups, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Muslim American Society (MAS) and Muslim Student Association (MSA), as the terrorist organizations that they are.
The Muslim Brotherhood is conducting civilization jihad within the United States--infiltrating government and political parties. It must be stopped.
Education
A well-educated and informed citizenry is vital to a thriving free society.
As the federal government has unconstitutionally interfered in public education, increasing costs, testing, and massive data collecting—the United States educational system has witnessed a decline in academic performance. The U.S. Department of Education should be eliminated, power of the teacher unions should be greatly diminished, and supervision of education should be given back to the States and more importantly to school boards and parents, where it belongs. (Pay attention parents… you may need to replace school board members who go along with CRT and social justice agendas rather than focusing on academic achievements.)
The state of Minnesota should opt-out of federal education funding/requirements, which never pays for itself but imposes unfunded mandates.
I will never support unconstitutional federal education programs.
Trade
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none.” Thomas Jefferson
As a consequence to NAFTA, the American worker has witnessed the mass movement of manufacturing jobs to other countries while simultaneously competing domestically with cheap foreign labor. Burdensome trade agreements, like TPP and TTIP, consist of thousands of pages of rules, regulations and binding arbitration. These trade agreements are controlled trade, not free trade--forcing submission to globalization benefiting multinational corporations while harming America's sovereignty and the American worker.
NATIONAL SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY
Mexico and Canada have a right to secure their borders... Americans demand that we do too. The United States spends billions securing borders of other countries while failing to secure our own.
Government spending and debt
It’s true—it’s not a tax problem, it’s a spending problem. Washington D.C., Democrats and Republicans, are continuing to borrow and spend leaving the next generation with over $30 trillion in national debt.
"Anyone who argues this course can continue is living with blinders," said Campaign to Fix the Debt Co-chairmen Judd Gregg, a former GOP senator, and Ed Rendell, a former Democratic governor. "CBO's annual report is a reminder that the situation is getting worse, not better, and the day of reckoning is fast approaching."
I agree with Ted Cruz’s plan to downsize government by eliminating agencies such as the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the IRS by simplifying taxes.
Finally, enact a 'real' Balanced Budget Amendment and conduct an audit targeting waste and fraud. This would include eliminating government assistance programs to illegal immigrants and eliminating grants for refugee non-profits.
