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I am running for Congress because I want our children and grandchildren to have a future, a future where they can prosper; a future where they can have a better job, a better life and still have the freedoms that we have today.

But I am worried about the future for our children. We face a monstrous debt, now over 12 trillion dollars. Our representatives continue to vote on more and more spending, many not even bothering to read what it is they are voting on.

12 trillion dollars, that is an unimaginable amount of money. Politicians throw amounts like billions and trillions around like we think of hundreds and thousands of dollars. But if you are like me, you have a hard time visualizing what a trillion dollars would be.  Think of these examples.

First example, imagine if you were given one million dollars to spend a day. Now imagine you started spending one million dollars a day starting at the birth of Jesus Christ. You would have spent one million dollars a day for over two thousand years and you still wouldn't have spent one trillion dollars. You would have gotten close, about ¾ of a trillion dollars. Now, try and imagine how long ago you would have needed to start to have spent 12 trillion dollars; probably over 24,000 years ago.

If that example doesn't work for you, imagine stacking a single dollar bill, one on top of the other. If we did that with one trillion dollars, that stack would reach about a third of the way to the moon or approximately 68,000 miles; and that was just one trillion dollars.

So what is the first thing that we do when we need to tighten our belts? The first thing we do is cut our spending. Right? Stop going out to eat, no more HBO, but we cut back on our expenses. Why is it that the government does things differently?

Unemployment is another serious problem we face today. Our national unemployment is at 10 percent, but many counties in West Tennessee have unemployment approaching 20 percent. Many of these jobs are leaving the U.S. to be outsourced overseas.

We need to create jobs, period. We need to do that by focusing on growing small businesses, not by passing small business killing legislation like Cap and Trade and the latest health care reform bill. Both of these penalize small businesses and make it even harder for them to stay afloat. And why focus on small businesses, because small businesses hire 80 percent of America's work force. We need to get businesses to reinvest in America again.

We have several problems that have gone unresolved for several years, like Social Security, Medicare, Immigration, and our dependency on foreign oil. There are solutions to these problems, but our leaders today lack the moral courage to face them. They prefer quick and easy solutions. But a quick and easy solution in today's Congress means throwing money at the problem, your money.

This is why I am running for Congress, because we need to change. Change the way we elect our representatives; change the way that Washington works; and change our government so that it represents our interests, not special interests.

We need to change the way we elect our representatives by getting more involved. We need to elect our representatives based on their qualifications, ethics and stance on the issues, versus how much money they have raised. This is money that comes from special interest groups with strings attached.

We need to change the way Washington works by establishing term limits. The old adage, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, applies to representatives who remain in power for decades. One of my favorite quotes is from Mark Twain where he said, "Politicians are like diapers.  They need to be changed frequently and for the same reason."

We need to change our government, so that it represents our interests and not special interests, by limiting the size and scope of our federal government.

We need to return the power to the states, local government and the people instead of being ruled by those in Washington. The founders knew two things in this regard: First, proximity is power. Governments and political leaders are best held accountable to the will of the people when government is local. Second, the people of a state know what is best for them. They do not need bureaucrats, miles away in Washington, D.C. governing their lives.

Now I finished telling you why I am running for Congress, let me tell you what I will do once elected.

Once elected I will enforce and reform our immigration laws so that we can secure our borders, deport or register illegal immigrants as guest workers and then crack down on businesses who employ them. This will ensure that anyone coming to this country, does so legally and then pays for the use of our services.

I will vote to repeal the 16th ammendment and reform our current tax code, replacing it with the FairTax.

However the first piece of legislation I will introduce will be a bill imposing term limits on the United States Congress.

As I stated earlier, we need to change the way we elect our representatives.

We continue to rely on the two party system to provide us with different choices, but thanks to this corrupt system, there is little difference between the two of them.

Both parties have voted to increase the size of our government, both parties voted to trade your freedoms for security, and both parties are responsible for our monsterous debt, our failing economy and the exporting of our jobs overseas.

I am running as an Independent Candidate. A candidate who doesn't answer to or work for party leadership, but a candidate who will work for the people of West Tennessee.

But I can't do this alone. I need your help. Together we can change the way our country works, and together we can get our counrty back on the right track.
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I don't have a "D" or an "R" next to my name because
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